Hasta La Ideas

Congratulations to the “Sustainable Refrainables” Poster Design Competition winners as voted by the Core77 community. First place goes to the playful entry pictured above Reduce, Reuse. by framecio who wins a copy Adobe’ CS5 Master Collection and $500 cash–Nice!

Second place went to Buy. Bye. by Fabio Furlanis, Ivo Arzenton, and Francesca Lorenzon, third to Hey. Clean Up Your Mess by Laura Polkus, and fourth to There is no Plan(et) B by Lee Willett who each score a copy of Adobe’ CS5 Master Collection.

The Jury choice will be announced live on stage at Compostmodern, January 22 & 23 in San Francisco. Thanks to everyone who participated, voted, commented and helped to make the challenge a success (we had over 400 entries), and a very special thanks to our sponsor Adobe for making the generous prize packs available. Check out all the entries here, and don’t forget there’s still time to get a video response in for our Powers of 10 competition.

See you in San Francisco!

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MESH01 is a co-creation platform that focusses on footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories. It links designers and brands worldwide. Together, they create and launch innovative products for the SportStyle industry. They have been running a series of great competitions two of which going on now are the PENSOLE Talent Search which will be judged by D’Wayne Edwards of Brand Jordan and a Freestyle Skate Competition that I will be judging and giving extensive feedback to entrants all through the process. Winner to the Freestyle Skate Competition get copies of my book, “Analog Dreams” first prize in the PENSOLE competition is an awesome scholarship to their program at PENSOLE Parsons New School.

If you are interested in getting into footwear, these might be two great opportunities to dip your toe in, pardon the pun… head over to MESH01 and check it out.

sketches by me…

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Core77 & Autism Speaks are proud to launch Autism Connects, an international student design competition to help individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

The Challenge
Design students are invited to produce new and 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.

Special Jury Award
The jury will award a grand prize of $5,000 to one individual or team. In addition, Autism Speaks will award creators (or one representative in the case of a team entry) of the top three designs a $1,000 stipend and registration fees to attend the 2011 International Meeting for Autism Research, to be held May 12 to 14, 2011 in San Diego, CA, where they will be invited to present their design concept.

Popular Vote Prize (Community Prize)
$1,000 – First Place
$500 – Second Place
$250 – Third to Sixth Place

Schedule
Competition Opens: January 3rd, 2011
Competition Closes: March 30th, 2011
Voting Closed: April 6th, 2011

Enter Now!

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Entries are pouring in for Core77’s “Sustainable Refrainables” Poster Design Competition in conjunction with Compostmodern 2011. There’s still 4 days remaining if you want a shot at winning one of the five copies of Adobe’s CS5 Master Collection (and $500 cash for the jury and community favorites). Not to mention all top five winning entries will be printed and displayed in bus shelters during San Francisco’s Design Week, June 13-19, 2011, and each winner will receive a copy of their poster.

Quick reminder to the serious contenders, the design brief is to visualize a phrase of persuasion and bring it to life with typography and visual cues—that, and if you want to win—we probably don’t need any more computer warning message metaphors, I think we nailed that one!

Good luck, enter now, and see you at Compostmodern!

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It’s here. The annual awards program that represents the best in industrial design by the organization that’s helped shape the industry for longer than anyone else. IDSA is now accepting entries for it’s 2011 International Design Excellence Awards , and it’s your time to select and submit your best in-production work from the past year. With categories spanning every aspect of the field, your product has the chance to garner international business and design acclaim from audiences that matter. This is more than a chance to show off amongst your peers, but an opportunity to let the world know why our work makes a difference.

Visit IDSA for complete details on registering and entering. The deadline for entry is January 28th, 2011.

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