Hasta La Ideas

While Bombay Sapphire is apparently still going forward with their annual Designer Glass Competition (which is odd because we knew all the details about the winner by this time last year and their site doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2008), the company has announced that it has decided to cancel its annual big money competition, the Bombay Sapphire Prize. Both contests asked designers and artists to submit their best glass sculptures (preferably something that would look nice while holding gin), but the Prize award came with tens of thousands of dollars for the winner (as opposed to the few thousand for the best of the other competition). Instead, the company is now trying to figure out some other, less financially-focused design-y thing to replace it, according to Design Week. Here’s a bit more from them:

Bombay Sapphire is planning a “new design activity,” which will launch next year and replace the international Bombay Sapphire Prize, which is not running this year.

Angela Oakes, director of the Bombay Sapphire Foundation, would not give details of what this activity might be, saying only that it “won’t be an award.”