Design Calendar

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Competitions | Conferences & Events | Exhibitions


Deadline: June 7, 2009 @ 11:59 p.m. PST
Call for Entries! LG's Invitation for Innovation
 LG Mobile Phones is partnering with crowdSPRING and Autodesk® to announce a new competition to define the future of personal mobile communication. If you are a U.S. resident age 18 and older, you can have a chance to design your vision of the next revolutionary LG mobile phone and compete for more than $80,000 in awards. Exercise your creative imagination and let your ideas be heard!

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Deadline: June 8, 2009
Zero Boundaries Design Competition - Call for Entries
 THINK ZINK and design an ink-free future to win awards totaling $25,000! ZINK Imaging has launched the first annual Zero Boundaries product design competition to challenge product designers worldwide (professionals and students) to harness the power of ZINK Zero Ink Printing Technology to re-imagine printing and its role in the digital world.

ZINK is the world's only totally ink-free full color printing technology that enables products that are mobile, embeddable, simple to use, easy to maintain and the most respectful of the planet. We are looking for contestants to take printing to places never before thought possible.

Participants have multiple chances to win and all finalists and winners will be publicized. Checkout our A-list panel of judges too!

Register now! Submissions are due June 8. Learn more at www.ZINK.com/ThinkZINK

Deadline: June 15, 2009
James Dyson Award
The challenge: design something that solves a problem. "Young designers and engineers are brimming with creative ideas to change the world - it's this ability to think differently that the James Dyson Award celebrates and encourages." James Dyson.

Prize
£10,000 cash & Dyson trophy
£10,000 cash (or equipment up to the value of £10,000) to student's design engineering department to fund design engineering education projects

Deadline: June 25, 2009
LED - Emotionalize your light
 LED - Emotionalize Your Light is an online contest energized by OSRAM about the creation of new and innovative ideas and designs for LED light solutions. Become a member of the community and share your ideas and designs - and win great prizes!

The light solutions:

  • shall give rise to emotions and moods like harmony, energy and wellbeing
  • must be easy to implement and easy to use (Plug'n Play approach)
  • may be customizable
  • should be affordable for everyone

Contest schedule: LED - Emotionalize your light is divided into two phases.
Phase 1: The ideas of all participants are collected and discussed.
Phase 2: The best designs are jointly advanced by the community.

At the end of each phase a professional jury will evaluate the contributions and select the winners. The winners will receive attractive monetary and non-monetary prizes amounting to more than 7000 Euros!

Learn more and register now...

Deadline: July 17, 2009
Sappi Ideas that Matter North America
 Sappi Ideas that Matter North America awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 per project to design firms performing pro bono work for non-profit organizations. It's about helping people, doing our planet some good, and creating prosperity. It starts with an idea that matters. Submit yours.

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Competitions | Conferences & Events | Exhibitions


June 11, 2009
Coroflot Creative Employment Confab: Portland
—The White Stag Building, Portland, OR
The three-hour event centers on a panel discussion, focusing on strategies for hiring and retaining top creative talent, sorting through the noise of portfolio review and interview, and building effective networks for filling positions, from both sides of the hiring table. A cocktail reception will immediately follow the presentation and the remainder of the afternoon will be an open format.

June 15—17, 2009
NeoCon
—Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
NeoCon presents new products for commercial interiors from over 12,000 showrooms and exhibitors.

June 15, 2009
MINIMAL—NeoCon Party
—Chicago, IL
MINIMAL creates iconic, disruptive, brand-building products and experiences for today’s most recognized companies. MINIMAL founder, Scott Wilson, one of Time Magazine’s Style+Design 100 and former design leader at IDEO, Nike and Motorola, invites you to join him and his studio cocktails and BBQ during NeoCon 2009. Following the event, guests are welcome to join MINIMAL for an after-party at Fulton Lounge, 955 W. Fulton Market. RSVP: info@MNML-rsvp.com

June 17—18, 2009
Re-Thinking... Design
—San Francisco, California
Re-Thinking ... Design is an opportunity for the community of smart designers to collaborate on the leadership role that Design should take to shape our future.

June 24—27, 2009
How Design Conference
—Austin, TX
The 2009 Conference will feature 45+ sessions on everything from Photoshop to collaborating with clients; 8 workshops; Austin Studio Tours, a huge design Resource Center and more. Register by April 1st for the Early-Bird deadline and save $100.

July 15—25, 2009
State of Design Festival
—Melbourne, Australia
In its fourth year, the State of Design Festival offers international conversations on design, with a focus on local goals to generate new and innovative products and services that can create sustainable development opprotunities.

Competitions | Conferences & Events | Exhibitions

May 6—September 13, 2009
Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics
—Museum of Arts and Design, New York,NY
Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design. The featured designers and places include Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia; Ted Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/China.

May 6—September 13, 2009
Design for a Living World
—Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
This exhibition explores how artists and designers are reviving interest in ceramics through collaborations with industry that enhance and sometimes subvert the industrial process, and includes over 200 pieces from artists, designers and manufacturers such as Constantin Boym, Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Ted Muehling, Kjell Rylander, Nymphenburg, Royal Tichelaar Makkum and Industreal.

May 31, 2009—January 4, 2010
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
—London, UK
One of the world's foremost hat designers Stephen Jones collaborates with the V&A to produce an exhibition with over 300 hats on display.

June 15-22, 2009
The Promise of This Moment
—Chicago, IL
Presented by The Mighty Bearcats in collaboration with The Object Design League, The Promise of This Moment highlights the capacity of objects to tranform banal and commonplace activities into moments of play, relief, beauty and delight, exploring the aesthetic and experiential opportunities that lay hidden within routine.

August 4—16, 2009
Workshopped 2009
—Chifley Plaza, Sydney, Australia
Now in its ninth year, WORKSHOPPED design exhibition has become a permanent and widely anticipated fixture of Sydney Design 09. Co-presented with the Powerhouse Museum,the free exhibition will showcase 30 designers from across Australia at Chifley Plaza from 5 – 16 August. This year designers were asked to demonstrate how their work will create the future and make a difference.