Created as a way to honor innovation and impressive new structures in architecture, the Architizer A+ Awards today announce their finalists and open up voting to the public on the much anticipated popular choice award. Judged by 200 jurors including Cool Hunting co-founders Josh Rubin and Evan Orensten, each…
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I used to teach middle school kids in Japan, and this is one of the funnier things I observed in the classroom:
GIRL: It’s hot in here, isn’t it?
BOY: It is.
GIRL: Shall I open a window?
BOY: Yes, about five centimeters.
The girl opened the window wide.
BOY: I said FIVE CENTIMETERS!
To say there are a subset of Japanese people concerned with precision is a bit of an understatement. And speaking of block planes, I guess it comes as no surprise that Japan is home to an annual wood-planing competition.
Seeing Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL) students top international design competitions is nothing new. Most recently, the prestigious D3 Contest, part of the international furniture fair IMM Cologne, has awarded its first prize distinction to 2012 product design graduate Lucien Gumy. Gumy was chosen among more than…
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This image is not related to the competition.
It is, however, related to Kevin J. Chun’s awesome Coroflot page
When we hear “Detroit” in the news, it’s often followed by depressing text about abandoned buildings or stolen woodwork. [Ed. Note: It’s not all bad—Middlecott (whose work we saw earlier today) is one of many Detroit-based studios looking to do Motor City proud…] But now the Product Design department at Chrysler is trying to provide some positive action with the Autorama High School Design Competition 2013.
In seeking a way to promote both charity and Detroit’s heritage while engaging youngsters, Ralph Gilles (Senior Veep of Chrysler Product Design) and his team partnered up with co-sponsors CCS, the Autorama custom car show and United Way to sponsor a high-school-targeted design competition. Anyone attending a Detroit public high school is invited to draw up a Chrysler luxury vehicle for the year 2030. Winners will get passes to the Detroit Autorama (plus an iPad for first prize winners) and more importantly, free admission to summer auto design courses at CCS.
“This year our product design team has been looking at creative ways to further support United Way for Southeastern Michigan as part of our overall corporate initiatives to help improve lives for people and communities in need,” said Ralph Gilles, Senior Vice President – Product Design, Chrysler Group LLC.
“With additional help from the College for Creative Studies and one of the best custom car shows in the world-our own Detroit Autorama–we’ll hopefully inspire some new and aspiring automotive designers right here in our own backyard.”
The deadline for entry is February 8th. While news of the competition was just announced yesterday, there is no official competition website; apparently the entries will be collected through the high schools themselves.
The Industrial Designers Society of America’s annual awards program has been open for exactly a month now, but designers still have over seven weeks to prepare and submit their entries. This marks the 33rd year of the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), which celebrate the practice across several categories—products, sustainability, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts—and “for the fourth year, The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI, will house the winners in its permanent collection.”
A jury of independent design experts will use the following criteria in selecting winning designs:
· Innovation: design, experience, manufacturing
· Benefit to the user: performance, comfort, safety, ease of use, usability, user interface, ergonomics, universal function and access, quality of life, affordability
· Responsibility: benefit to society, environment, culture and economy
· Benefit to the client: profitability, increased sales, brand reputation, employee morale
· Visual appeal and appropriate aesthetics
· Design research category insights: usability, emotional factors, unmet needs, testing rigor and reliability
· Design strategy category: internal factors and methods, strategic value and implementation
Find all of the information at http://IDSA.org/IDEA, including the full rules and list of categories; check out last year’s winners here.
If you are an aspiring, young or establishing-yourself kinda designer, then the next three days are very important for you. The A’ Design Award has opened doors to the Year of Design Campaign, which is an opportunity for designers to join the competition with discounted fees. The doors (or discount window of 60%) remains open for 3-days only. So this means from 27-30 December 2012. In other words it’s Santa’s way of giving you a bonus gift this year!
The reason why we resonate with A’ Design Award is that it offers a platform for designers that creates publicity, PR push and advertisement opportunities for award winners. The competition supports the global design culture by creating incentives for participants to come up with superior designs for a better future.
So once again here are the details for you:
Discounted Entry Nomination Ticket for Year of Design Campaign can be used by participants that fulfill one of the criteria below:
To apply to this program, you can purchase “Year of Design – Discounted Entry Nomination Ticket“. After purchase, you can directly proceed to uploading your designs, and use the ticket code that will be sent to you for completing the nomination process.
During this short-time period, nomination tickets for the A’ Design Award and Competition are offered to eligible prospective participants at a 60% Discount: entries will cost 175 Euro instead of 375 Euro which is the late entry period fee.
Nominations Deadline: 28th of February, 2013.
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Each year as part of the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world’s most impressive images and movies of life science subjects taken by microscope are put on show. The work of this year’s more than 2000 entrants delivered striking snapshots of human, plant and animal cells in brilliant…
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If everything goes right, Hong Kong’s new territories will be getting one helluva bicycle lane. HKSARG (the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government) has proposed building 105-kilometer-long cycleway, not for racing, but for recreation and the health of its citizens. The track will wind around the perimeter of the territory, sticking mostly to the coastline, and will feature entry-and-exit hubs along with resting stations.
It will also feature bicycle racks, and that’s where you might come in. Just this morning Hong Kong’s Civil Engineering and Development Department, the body tasked with making the track a reality, has launched the “Creative Smart Parking – Cycle Rack Design Competition.”
An aesthetic and user friendly design for cycle parking facilities is crucial to enhance their utilisation, as well as improve the cityscape. The purpose of the Creative Smart Parking – Cycle Parking Rack Design Competition (“the Competition”) is to invite the public to contribute innovative conceptual design of cycle parking racks and layout of the cycle parking areas, for the cycle track network in the New Territories.
You needn’t live in the territory nor be a citizen to enter, and Grand Prize nets you $50,000. (Assuming they mean HK dollars, that’s still US $6,450, nothing to sneeze at.) You can learn more here.
Over the years we’ve covered our share of impressive Rube Goldberg machines, from human-powered to suitcase-sized, and created from the likes of “Brooklyn’s Rube Goldberg” to alternative band OK Go.
The next one we cover might be yours—Rube Goldberg, Inc., is now accepting applications for the 2013 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
Open to college and secondary school students only, the theme of this year’s competition is “Hammer a Nail.” Entrants have to design a machine no large than six cubic feet that accomplishes this with a minimum of 20 steps from start to finish, in two minutes or less. Beyond those regulations, limitations are few: You can’t use open flame, explosives, hazardous materials, or live animals.
Igus, the plastic machine parts company we looked at in an earlier post, is one of the sponsors for this year’s competition. That being the case, they’re willing to supply free parts—flanges, bearings, linear slides, aluminum shafting—for entrants to use in their designs. You can request Igus samples and information on available parts here.
THEME:
Design Santa a New Sleigh
DOORS OPEN:
Thursday, December 6, 2012
DOORS CLOSE:
Friday December 21, 2012
BRIEF:
Santa needs a new sleigh. He’s been driving his old jalopy pulled by reign deer. Surely it’s time for Santa to get a new ride, and who better than the Core77 Community to bring the initial concepts to the table for discussion.
JURY:
Discussion forum moderators.
CRITERIA:
Designs will be judged purely on subjective opinion of the judge(s). Minimum entry will be 1 8.5″ x 11″ page of thumbnail sketches, and 1 8.5″ x 11″ rendering of the final design. The 1HDC is about your rapid visualization skills in conjunction with a fun topic. Good composition, line weight and rapid concept development will weigh heavily in the final design.
HOW TO ENTER:
Participants must execute their design in only one hour, based on an honor system. Remember, you’re posting to a pile of peers who know what is possible to be done in an hour. To enter, upload your entries to the designated competition forum.
To discuss the challenge and the entries, visit the 1HDC discussion forum.
PRIZE:
Bragging Rights and front page Core77 blog post recognition.
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