Cork Competition! - Call for Entries

Boisbuchet has an open call for entries for new applications for cork products or the improvement of existing products with cork.

Submission: 4 page pdf (details on website)
Deadline: June 30

Winners will be selected to attend a workshop to create prototypes, and a final winner will be selected with an award of 10,000 €. All the rights remain with the designer.

Have fun!
DETAILS HERE!

Dyson Competition!

Calling for entrants!!


The James Dyson Award invites engineering and design students from across the globe to submit their pioneering ideas – yearend projects or inventions they’ve developed. The winner receives $10,000 to develop their invention with an additional $10,000 to their university.

Submit your ideas or projects for inclusion in the 2012 James Dyson Awards and get the opportunity to see your project from conception to finish.

Previous winners have solved issues from everyday energy solutions to affordable prosthetic limbs - each an original way to answer a problem, big or small.

Check out their site for more details!

IDEA 2012

Calling for design entries for the annual International Design Excellence Awards! For more info visit their website here, the deadline is February 10th!!

Electrolux Design Lab 2011: Kent Madden

If you haven't already heard, Carleton SID student Kent Madden has been named a finalist in Electrolux's Design Lab 2011 Competition. You can find out more about his Salvé portable bagel toaster concept here, and vote for the People's Choice Award here. We wish Kent the best of luck at the upcoming Electrolux Design Lab Final on September 7th!

Furnish a balcony

You can...win a share of €12,500 and exhibit as part of Garden Unique, which takes place at Koelnmesse in Cologne from 4 to 6 September.

Task Definition
Develop a design concept for your dream balcony with new furniture ideas!

Benefits for the creatives
Participants in the contest not only have the chance to win the community prize but three jury prizes will also be awarded. The winners selected by the jury will be given the opportunity to have their design built as a 3-D model, which will then be exhibited in the garden unique area. They will also be able to personally present their design to an audience of specialists. The other ideas selected by the jury and community will also be displayed in a special exhibition in the garden unique area. What makes this contest special is that manufacturers can purchase ideas and designs from the contest so your designs actually stand a chance of being turned into a reality.

You have 14 days left for this competition...
details here. (http://www.jovoto.com/contests/garden-goes-balcony/landing)

good luck!

Autism Connects - Design for those with ASD

THE CHALLENGE
The “Autism Connects” technology and design competition challenges students to help individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better connect with the world around them, and allow individuals who do not have ASD to better understand and connect with those who do.

Designers are asked to produce innovative technology-based solutions to assist individuals with ASD in their communications with others and, in doing so, to increase the public’s understanding of this unique and growing population. Design solutions should focus on improving communication on any of a number of levels: between individuals, within and between communities and their members, and among individuals without ASD so they can connect better with individuals who do.


The Jury consists of Yves Behar (fuseproject), Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram), Richard Seymour (Seymourpowell) nnd Allan Chochinov (Core77)


Competition closes March 30th 2011


Web link: Autism Connects
pdf link: ASD Challenge Brief

Get a Grip, Son

designboom & Italian manufacturer Columbo are hosting a door handle design competion.

Top three entries get € 3000 (that's euros stupid) and how hard can it be to design a door handle?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Submissions are due by April 20th, 2011, but you're gonna be finished long before then...right?

for the full deets: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12774/hands-on-door-handles-international-design-competition.html

Azure AZ Awards for Design Excellence

AZ AWARDS, is the first annual international competition from Azure celebrating excellence in design. It's an opportunity to present completed work of exceptional, innovative design that's also environmentally sustainable.


The categories:

Design: furniture, furniture systems, lighting, interior products

Architecture: residential, commercial & institutional, landscapes, temporary & demonstration spaces

Interiors: residential, commercial & institutional

Concepts: unbuilt competition entries, other unrealized concepts

A+ Award: students enrolled in a post-secondary design or architecture program are eligible for the $2,500 prize.

Submissions close March 1. To enter online or for more information visit awards.azuremagazine.com.

D&AD awards - call for entries

registration closes Jan 31st. I THINK.
click to find out more info.

Michelin Design Challenge 2012

Michelin Design Challenge 2012

Theme: City 2046, Art, Life, and Ingenuity

Participants are challenged to design a personal, ground-based vehicle that can transport between 2 and 10 people at a time. Designers will choose Los Angeles, Mumbai, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, or Shanghai and design a vehicle to meet anticipated needs for that city in 2046.

Register by June 3rd, 2011

Carleton Solar Decathlon Team

You may have missed the first few meetings of the Carleton Solar decathlon team, but it's not too late to take part in this project. The team is working towards a concept to be entered in the 2013 competition, but the major design work is expected to be completed over the next few months.

What is the Solar Decathlon?

"The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is an award-winning program that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency."

http://www.solardecathlon.gov/about.cfm

What is the project goal?

The team is looking to design a house that is marketable, aesthetically pleasing, efficient, and cost effective.

What do they want from us?

Ideas. Insights. The team in charge of this is comprised of engineers, and they are looking to ID and Architecture students for help in developing the concept during the early stages. If you know anything about solar power, passive solar heating, architecture, small-space living, energy saving design, etc, etc, etc, we want your input.

The next meeting is during the first week of January, and they are looking for students to bring concepts work or research done over the break. The plan is for a full-fledged concept by the end of January, so things are moving very super fast.

If you have any questions you can email the team directly at: eric_ma_@hotmail.com or speak to Nat Overholtzer or Anthony Dewar in 3rd year.

Design your Line - GLOS x Design*Sponge

http://www.contest.glosover.com/index.html

design a pattern,
win,
get royalties.

now - DECEMBER 15, 2010

ICFF Studio 2011: Call for entries

Deadline: January 15, 2011

ICFF Studio invites submissions of product prototypes from designers working on any and all the product categories exhibited at the ICFF: furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath.

For more information, please visit: http://icffstudio.com/

Fujitsu Design Award 2011

Deadline: January 31, 2011

The subject of the international competition is

A LIFE with Future Computing

The Award is composed of two categories: the LIFEBOOK Category that studies what the PCs will be like in 2013, the near future, and the LIFE DESIGN Category that studies what next-generation computing devices will be like (including service concept) ten years from now in 2020.

For more information, visit: http://designaward2011.jp.fujitsu.com/eng/index.html