Hasta La Ideas

Where the heck’s that little “English” button? Sigh….

While most design competitions take pride in drawing entrants from around the world, the city of Montreal is moving in the other direction. Their recently announced design comp to create “mobile urban furniture” (for street fairs and festivals) is described only in French, on a flash-based website that stymies Google Translator; furthermore, a press release states that “Only those candidates who have picked up the [registration] documents at the Design Montreal office will be considered.”

Anyways, if you’re Quebecois and/or a French-speaker that lives close enough to pop over to the Design Montreal office…send us some English-language updates!

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