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We were big on last year's carpet sample design competition from Tricycle, so we're thrilled to help get the word out again. Get your scrap piles in order, work your magic, and enter to win the second annual Ample Sample Competition. Call for entries is open now; winners go to Neocon!
The Internet generation comprises brand-conscious, busy young professionals between 25-35 who are independent, concerned about the environment, and whose lives are intertwined with technology and online social networks.
This year's submissions should be for 2-3 years into the future and address food storage, cooking, and/or washing.
Prizes:
1st Prize: €5000 + 6 month Electrolux scholarship
2nd Prize: €3000
3rd Price: €2000
This competition recognizes the importance and power of visualizations. Great representations illuminate and explain to the public the crucial work of science and engineering. They have also become an analytical tool for researchers, revealing patterns and structures, because some things can be visualized beyond its own data.
Winning images will be published in Science journal.
SWAROVSKI international design competition invites designers to come up with products and ideas to fill the new SWAROVSKI concept store by Tokujin Yoshioka. The products should be 'packageable' - that means they should be able to be sold over the counter. You should explore the properties of this unique material and challenge people's perception of how crystal can be used in the near future.
Prizes:
1st Prize: €4000
2nd Prize: €3000
3rd Price: €2000
"This annual arward is founded by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel of the Winterhouse Institute to recognize excellence in writing about design and encourage the development of young voices in design writing, commentary and criticism." Now show them what you've got! Jurors: Michael Bierut, design and partner at Pentagram; Jessica Helfand, designer and partner at Winterhouse; Kevin Lippert, publisher of Princeton Architectural Press; and Judith Thurman, The New Yorker writer and fashion critic.
Writing award of $10,000If you are under 30 years of age, not a previous ADC Young Gun, and have been working professionally for the last 2 years, you could be one of the 50 next "Young Guns." Selected work will be added to the permanent collection at the ADC website and winners will also receive a one-year membership, on the house!
Entry Fee: $125
Although bicycle lanes are the most noticeable element of a city's cycling infrastructure, access to parking is also essential. Indeed, a study conducted by the Department of City Planning found that lack of access to secure bike parking was the primary reason cyclists did not ride to work. The purpose of the competition is to develop functional, well-designed sidewalk racks and to generate new concepts for bicycle parking inside commercial and residential buildings.
Prizes:
2nd round (cash to build a prototype): $5,000
WINNER: $10,000
This competition is open to North American engineering and design students who are enrolled for the 2007-2008 academic year. You will be challenged to design and develop any type of water-dispensing mechanism other than a faucet or sink, it can be used inside or out and may be stationary or movable.
Prizes:
There will be three awards of $3000.00 each with the money split between the student ($2000.00) and the faculty advisor ($1000.00)
You are invited to investigate the future design of the work environment - this is your opportunity to showcase your creativity to the Australian design community. There are two categories for working professionals and students: Innovation Award and Sustainability Award.
Prizes include:
A 10-day trip to Orgatec, Cologne, a visit to our manufacturer Gispen in The Netherlands and a visit to Okamura in Japan
This is the fourth year for the VDA design award. The task this year is to produce concepts and to design visionary solutions for commercial vehicles in all segments of future freight transport by road. The particular aim is to achieve maximum transport efficiency, i.e. to consider freight transport holistically, taking the whole transport chain into account.
Prizes:
First : EUR 2,000
Second : EUR 1,000
Third : EUR 500
Brooklyn, NY
In addition to showcasing the next wave of juried contemporary indoor and outdoor furnishings, lighting, and accessories, BKLYN DESIGNS 2008 once again will feature BKLYN DESIGNS +: the cash and carry market for small home accessories.
Prague, Czech Republic
More than 120 pieces of design - products, graphics and fashion are on display. The exhibition in Prague is going on now till the 13th of May 2008. After that exhibition will be moved to Bratislava, Slovakia.
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
This year's conference theme, "The Year of Dangerous Minds", is about creative risk-taking. It celebrates the brashness of larger-than-life revolutionaries who redraw boundaries and whose shock waves often reverberate well beyond their own disciplines.
New York, NY
Our 2008 New York Design Week guide has launched and is updated every day. Start making your plans now, check it out here:
Meatpacking District, NYC
The 3rd Annual Meatpacking District Design '08 is a series of exhibitions, panel discussions and cocktail parties during the ICFF. Over twenty-five of New York's retailers with international product designers and artists will showcase their work here. If you are looking for a guide check here: Hardcore Cafe, 413-415 W. 14th Street, and here, Hotel Gansevoort Lobby, 18 Ninth Avenue.
Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
The HOW Design Conference recognizes that graphic design is a business as well as an art. This annual event provides a hands-on, educational program to enable designers to better balance the three key components of graphic design: creativity, business and technology.
Early-Bird registration deadline is March 28
New York, New York
Cadd edge thinks designers shouldn't "play around with consumer product, they should design SolidWorks." Join in an evening of exploration, food and drinks, to see why SolidWorks has become the chosen "solution" for consumer design.
Berlin, Germany
Exhibition meets event, product design meets art and international scene meets Berlin subculture.
DMY is a platform for young creative and experimental concepts. Over 150 international designers present their work in an exhibition area spanning 7000 sq. m. with an extensive supporting event. Borderlines turn into interfaces, night turns into day, please do join.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference is an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage.
New York, New York
AIGA / NY'sÊFreshÊDialogueÊis a very well respected showcase for emerging ideas and trends in graphic design, articulated by a panel of three design practitioners, John Maeda, Steve Duenes, Andrew Kuo, and a moderator, Fernanda Viegas. This year's theme of information graphics as visual journalism addresses the question of ethics as the role of the designer shifts from one of executor to editor. Each year's event is captured in book form and printed by Princeton Architectural Press.
Los Angeles, California
The 2008 Dwell on Design Conference will be held in Los Angeles, the very city that will be the focus of many discussions and lectures in the realms of sustainability, architecture, urban planning, interiors, products, and landscapes. The very long list of speakers includes Eric Garcetti, Council President of LA, Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio, Enrico Bressan, Principal at Artecnica, Jenna Didier of Fountainhead Design, Monica Gilchrist and Walker Wells of Global Green, Leo Marmol of Marmol Radziner, and many, many more. The Exhibition, open on June 7th and 8th, will feature a marketplace where visitors can check out new products, interiors, pre-fab structures and more design-y stuff from over 200 exhibitors. This weekend will also feature home tours of LA's Westside Single Family Homes and an inside look into Downtown urban living.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Design, brand, and business are a powerful combination, representing the entire customer experience--connecting customers, companies, and innovation. Together, they make the promise, set the expectations, and affect every experience. Leading experts will share their methods, process and tools on the synergy of brand and design business today.
Workshop with Ross Lovegrove
27th June - 3rd July 2008
In collaboration with Serralunga.
Workshop with Campana brothers
4th July - 10th July 2008
In collaboration with 3M.
Workshop with Matali Crasset
11th July - 17th July 2008
In collaboration with Microsoft.
Workshop with Marti Guixe
18th July - 24th July 2008
In collaboration with Alessi.
Participants from all over the world will project and experience strict contact with innovative designers of the current scene. Besides the workshop there will be numerous possibilities to visit several show rooms, exhibitions, and renowned designer's studios.
Melbourne, Australia
The State of Design Festival offers local and international conversations on design. The festival will have four key event arenas, the Premier's Design Awards, Design Capital, Design for Everyone and Design Made Trade, each created to stimulate interest, engagement and inspiration amongst design professionals, business groups and the general public. Join in and be inspired.
MX: Managing Experience, San Francisco, CA
April 20-22, 2008
As the business value of design becomes clearer, creative managers building the next generation of products and services are confronted with an increasingly demanding set of challenges.
User Experience Week, San Francisco, CA
August 12-15, 2008
a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user experience practitioners at all levels.
University College Falmouth, UK
This conference responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the 'networks' of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DesignPhiladelphia presents their fourth annual design week on October 16 - 22nd, running in conjunction with National Design Week. Design with a capital "D" showcases the disciplines of architecture, graphic design, product design, textiles, fashion, multimedia and urban design. The mission is to enlighten the public about depth of visionary work taking place behind closed doors.
MEMES, New York City
Entitled New York Bike Dreams, photographer and messenger Takuya Sakamoto who grew up in Yokohama and Okayama, has compiled an impressive array of snaps while on the job.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC
Bam and Brooklyn Art Project team up to launch a web inspired art exhibition.
Ten years ago the web was mostly about ecommerce, email, and technology, now it's about communities, collaborations and sociology. Through focused projects with institutions like the Brooklyn Academy of Music, our goal is to build global 'platforms of participation' that go beyond the gallery walls and empower artists to create and be inspired in ways never before possible.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.
SCAD Atlanta, Ga.
Karim Rashid is one of the most significant cultural shapers in the world today. He is a leading figure in the fields of product, interior, fashion, furniture, lighting and art design. SCAD-Atlanta will showcase a selection of Rashid's more than 2000 designed objects that have been put into production. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Karim Rashid will be speaking at 4:30 on April 3rd at the Rich Auditorium at the Woodruff Arts Center immediately followed by the opening reception for his exhibition.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Musee de Design et d'Arts Contemporains, a contemporary art and design museum exhibits the graphics found on vintage paper wrappings for oranges--vernacular design at its best.
San Francisco, California
Knoend is presenting a multidisciplinary showcase of sustainable design projects pioneered in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Design Guild SF Gallery. The exhibition's goal is to inspire community's creativity -- from professional designers to your neighbor on the street, with the imagination to design a more sustainable world. Projects featured range from fashion, graphic design, architecture, to furniture etc...
Artists Space Gallery, New York
The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as 'a group of culinary adventurers who eat foods produced in a radius of 100 miles (160 km) around their city'. By doing so they aim to reduce impact on the environment inherent to the transport of foodstuffs, while ensuring their traceability. Local River aims to replace the decorative 'TV aquarium' by an equally decorative but also functional 'refrigerator-aquarium'. In this scenario, fish and greens cohabit for a short time in a home storage unit before being eaten by their keepers, the end-players in an exchange cycle within a controlled ecosystem. FYI "Locavore" was the 2007 Word of the Year for the Oxford American Dictionary!!
Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City
This first major museum survey of rococo style and its continuing revivals, examines the florid motifs in furniture, decorative arts, textiles, prints, and drawings across periods and continents.
The Galleria, Houston TX
The 2008 Red Bull Art of Can exhibition showcases artwork inspired by or created with Red Bull cans.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK
The V&A's spring exhibition, China Design Now, will explore the recent explosion of new design in China, from the 2008 Olympic stadium to the most interesting fashion and graphics.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Established in 1990 by Paul Neale, Andy Stevens, and Nigel Robinson, GTF is emerging as one of the most progressive and creative design firms working in both two and three dimensions. GTF designed monographs on the work of Tord Boonjte and Ron Arad as well as the exhibition catalogue for the 54th Carnegie International in 2003.
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