Hasta La Ideas

If you’ve participated in the design, engineering, manufacture or distribution of an outstanding medical device, here’s your chance to shine. The 13th annual Medical Design Excellence Awards competition is open for submission by companies and individuals who have products commercially available by December 31, 2009. It’s a worldwide call for entries, so get crackin — last year’s winners are a serious bunch to beat.

Early bird deadline is November 20, 2009
Standard deadline is December 18, 2009

You can find out more by visiting the MDEA website. Winners will be displayed at the 2010 Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East trade event in New York.

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(Probably not what the Apple tablet will look like)

Who’da thunk a glass rectangle could generate so much buzz? But the web is, and has been, undeniably a’Twitter with speculation, rumors, future stock price analyses, and rendering mock-ups of Apple’s forthcoming tablet.

iLounge is tapping into the frenzy with their “Design the Apple Tablet” contest:

Submit a brand-new artistic rendition (minimum 1600 pixels wide) of what you think Apple’s upcoming Tablet device should look like, including the on-screen interface. Some of the details are believed to be known here, but you’re not bound to follow them. Your image may be wholly original or based in part on iLounge photos of the iPhone or iPod touch, however, originality is strongly encouraged, and no use of others’ photos or previous contest entries is permitted. Please do not overlap text on top of the image of the Tablet….

For this contest, we will be selecting winners based on either the plausibility or the cool factor of their designs, and unlike some previous contests, we are not looking for funny entries. Use realistic or smart design ideas to inspire your work and you’ll have the best shot at winning a prize.

Said prizes are a series of headphones way too expensive for you to ever actually pay money for. Deadline’s October 26th.

To see what previous iLounge contests have yielded, check out their gallery of submissions for iPhone concepts. (Pictured up top is one reader’s amusing take on the iPhone Nano.)

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Metropolis Magazine has announced a call for entries for their Next Generation design competition, titled “One Design Fix for the Future“:

Good design determines how well products, spaces, and systems work from the beginning. We think that great design ideas can make things work even better. One Design Fix for the Future challenges you to prove us right–whether you are an architect, interior designer, product designer, landscape designer, graphic designer, communication designer. We’re looking for ONE design fix you can make now in your designed environment–the products you use, your home, your workplace, your city, or any commercial application–that, in scale or as inspiration, can improve our future.

To enter, provide one small (but brilliant and elegant) fix–leading to an incremental (or dramatic) change in sustainability. Your fix needn’t have anything to do with “environmentalist engineering” to make a difference. Concentrate on what you know best, are aching to improve in a way that deploys your training and imagination.

Grand prize is ten large, and the deadline’s not ’til late January 2010 so you’ve got a little time for this one. But hurry up–those holidays will be here before you know it. Click here to learn more.

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Une belle direction artistique et des retouches photographiques, pour cette campagne mettant en scène des ours et des chèvres. Une baseline amusante : “Special thanks to our audience”, par l’agence McCann Erickson Romania
 et des clichés du photographe Marius Samoila.

Previously on Fubiz

• Typophile Opening Titles
• Elena Kalis
• Oded Ezer

We love repairing and it seems we’re not alone here. Ever since Platform21 presented its Reparing Manifesto (earlier) they received over 60 inspiring entries in the Most Remarkable Repair Contest.

For instance, Platform21 now offers a solution for broken china: the new repair technique Bison kintsugi (photo).

Designer Lotte Dekker developed a new view of gluing porcelain based on kintsugi, an old Japanese technique in which porcelain is repaired with gold leaf. It’s an extremely time-consuming, expensive method. Dekker found Bison glue to be the perfect Western variant for making beautiful yet simple repairs.

Watch all entries here

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