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Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of Generative Design, a book about using computer processing to design artwork, models and animations.

Generative Design explores how programming languages such as Processing can be used to create structures from sets of rules, or algorithms, to form the basis of anything from patterned textiles and typography to lighting, sculptures, films and buildings.

The book includes 35 illustrated case studies by designers from a variety of design fields such as architecture, graphic design, sculpture and textiles.

A step-by-step manual then guides readers through practical instructions for creating their own visual experiments by combining simple programming codes with basic design principles.

The book is paired with a website where users are able to download sections of programming code and upload their own artwork and techniques.

Generative Design is published by the Princeton Architectural Press.

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To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Generative Design” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 18 December 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five books about Stanton Williams’ Sainsbury Laboratory, the winner of this year’s Stirling Prize.

The Sainsbury Laboratory: Science, Architecture, Art has been published to coincide with the opening of the plant science laboratory at the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Garden.

Both the building design by British architecture firm Stanton Williams and the plant research undertaken in the laboratories are explored through photographs and text.

The book features an introduction by Lord David Sainsbury and essays by authors Stephen Day, John Parker and Steve Rose.

An accompanying DVD includes information about the development of the project with input from a number of specialists who were involved in the various aspects of the scheme.

The Sainsbury Laboratory: Science, Architecture, Art is published by Black Dog Publishing and is available to purchase here.

Read more about the Sainsbury Laboratory building in our previous story here, and see all our stories about Stanton Williams here.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “The Sainsbury Laboratory” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 4 December 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

Here is some information from the publishers:

The Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge by Stanton Williams, winner of the 2012 Stirling prize.

The Sainsbury Laboratory: Science, Architecture, Art is published in conjunction with the opening of the plant science laboratory at the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Garden.

The book and related DVD focus on the three main elements that have brought this building and project together—science, architecture and art. The science refers to the laboratories status as a centre at the forefront of plant sciences and to the world experts in this field who work there; the architecture refers to ground-breaking laboratory design by Stanton Williams, which has been nominated for a World Architecture Festival Award; the art refers to the specially commissioned public artworks in the Laboratory and the grounds of the Botanic Garden by Norman Ackroyd, Susanna Heron and William Pye, as well as the garden’s education programme.

The Sainsbury Laboratory: Science, Architecture, Art features an introduction by Lord David Sainsbury and essays by Stephen Day, John Parker and Steve Rose—experts in the three fields that the book encompasses. The DVD provides an in-depth insight into the thought processes and practices of a range of specialists who have made the project possible, from the initial laboratory design to the exciting potential of the research and development in the field of plant sciences that the work at The Sainsbury Laboratory is producing.

Throughout both the book and DVD, the inspirations of the scientists, architects and artists involved in the project are revealed, including the work of John Stevens Henslow, the botanist who established the Botanic Garden in 1762 and who taught Charles Darwin, the buildings of Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier and Carlo Scarpa, and the intricate workings of plants themselves. Together these form a highly visual celebration of the influences that have brought this pioneering building about.

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Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the opportunity to win one of ten Pin World or Pin City wall maps by designers Emanuele Pizzolorusso and Alessandro Maffioletti for Palomar.

The felt maps come with a set of 15 pins so you can mark notable places and attach photographs and memorabilia.

Pin World features locations of major cities on a figure-ground map of the world without political borders.

Pin City maps of Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York and Paris include street layouts in a lighter colour, with places of interest marked and labelled.

The Pin World and New York maps are 130 centimetres by 70 centimetres and the other Pin City maps are 100 centimetres by 80 centimetres.

All maps are available in blue and black. Photography is by Andrea Poggesi.

We’ve also featured maps by Emanuele Pizzolorusso that you can screw up and put in your pocket – see them here. See all our stories about maps »

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Pin Map” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Please state which map you would like, and in what colour, when entering the competition. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 22 November 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: we’re offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of this year’s Dutch Design Yearbook, featuring exemplary designs produced in the Netherlands over the past year.

The fourth edition of the book features over 60 urban, product, graphic and fashion design projects including the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, masks by Bertjan Pot and the Stills Flagship Store in Amsterdam.

Each project is presented with a selection of images and text in Dutch and English.

The designs in the yearbook were all nominated for the Dutch Design Awards – take a look at this year’s winners here.

The awards took place as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, which continues until 28 October. Follow our coverage of the event here.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Dutch Design Yearbook 2012” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 20 November 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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