Open until 30 March 2012. Approximately 54 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): Good Design Australia.

Winners Announcement Expected: 20 July 2012

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The Australian International Design Awards is one of the longest standing and most prestigious design awards in the world. The 2012 call for entries is open and as usual the Awards are seeking for product and business designs in several different categories.

Entry is open to all professionally designed products or services available in Australia (including those available to Australians via the internet). Products or services professionally designed by Australians for overseas markets are also eligible.

You're invited to take the challenge and see if you have what it takes to compete with the world's best.

The Search Is On For The Best Design In The World

The Australian International Design Awards accepts professionally designed products and services across the following sectors.

For Product Design:

• Consumer
  Includes domestic appliances, whitegoods, housewares, consumer electronics, personal accessories, baby goods, toys and personal care
• Business + Technology
  Includes office equipment, financial registers, communications terminals, commercial instruments and technology products
• Medical + Scientific
  Includes medical and laboratory equipment, therapeutic goods, home health care and personal monitoring devices
• Automotive + Transport
  Includes motor powered vehicles, automotive components and accessories, public and other modes of transport
• Sport + Leisure
  Includes professional and recreational sporting equipment, sporting apparel, camping gear and leisurewear
• Housing + building
  Includes construction equipment, building materials, plumbing, electrical lighting and cabling, industrial fittings and fixtures
• Heavy Machinery
  Includes agricultural, mining, earthmoving and production equipment
• Architectural + Interior
  Includes furniture, architectural lighting, bathroomware, architectural hardware, environments, textiles and object design

For Business Design:

• Not-for-profit
  Not-for-profit services designed for charitable or other causes
• Business
  Profit-generating services designed for the business sector
• Education
  Services designed for the education sector
• Government
  Public services designed in response to government tenders

The Australian International Design Awards 2012 will award 5 main and a few special prizes and awards in July 2012.

Entry Fee

Different application fees apply for different categories.

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Open until 27 March 2012. Approximately 51 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): Swatch, TTR World Snowboard Tour.

You can enter or apply for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners Announcement Expected: May 2012

Suggested by: Swatch Art Rules Design Competition

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Swatch and the TTR World Snowboard Tour are pleased to announce the third annual Swatch Art Rules Design Contest. It offers artists the chance of a lifetime to have their artwork featured on the 2012/13 TTR World Tour Trophy and matching Swatch Tour Watch.

The Contest is on now through 27 March 2012 and artists can submit their designs online.

Out of all participants 3 selected nominees are invited to the Swatch Art Rules Night in May 2012, to mix and mingle with artists and snowboard professionals from all over the world.

Your Chance To Make A Mark in The Action Sport and Art Scene!

Swatch Art Rules is an excellent opportunity for an artist to showcase their work and break into the spotlight through the snowboard and art worlds.

This year’s installment of the design contest presents a challenge to the artists of the world: submit a graphic design that expresses the themes of Progression and Style. Progression and Style are two elements that run through all aspects of snowboarding and an artist’s interpretation of these themes will make the TTR Trophy and Swatch Tour Watch aesthetically complete.

The top three nominees will be invited to the Swatch Art Rules Night gala event in May 2012 in the Los Angeles area (USA) where the winning design and artist are set to be unveiled to the world. In addition to the portfolio-building exposure, the winner also receives a two-week trip to New York City to soak up all the art and design inspiration of the Big Apple.

Or if you're just scanning through this page, you might want to pay attention to the competition prize list below:

• YOUR personal creative look on the TTR World Snowboard Tour Trophy 2012/2013!
• YOUR design on the official Swatch Tour Watch 2012/2013!
• YOUR moment of fame on stage at the Swatch Art Rules Night!
• YOUR creative holiday: 2 weeks in New York City including travel costs, accommodation and pocket money for 2 people!

No Entry Fee!

It's free to enter.

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Open until 15 April 2012. Approximately 70 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): RAPIMAN.

You can enter or apply for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners Announcement Expected: 20 September 2012

Suggested by: Dusan

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RAPIMAN (RApid Prototyping and Innovative MAnufacturing Network) has launched a design competition ‘Free Form Challenge’ within the framework of the iCAT 2012 conference.

Creators from all over the world with design and CAD skills are invited to submit their work(s) as entries within one of the competition topics.

The organizers challenge you to release your creative imagination and design products, as complex as you like, meaning they can be unrestricted by technological limitations.

RAPIMAN Challenges Designers Worldwide

The Free Form Challenge is seeking for product designs on the following competition topics:

• Interior
  Lights (e.g.: table lamps, chandeliers, reading lamps, etc.)
• Mock-Ups
  Means of transport (e.g.: cars, bicycles, aeroplanes, boats, etc.)
• Personal Products
  Jewellery (e.g.: earrings, rings, spectacles, key-rings, etc.)
• Industrial Products
  Headphones and accessories (e.g.: hands-free headset, headphones for music, headphones for noise protection, etc.).

Each candidate can participate in one or more competition topics, but with just one conceptual sketch / CAD / or STL file within each particular competition topic!

The jury will select the three to five best proposals from each competition topic. Each selected participant will receive a prototype of their product (max. overall size 240 mm), a printed award, and a presentation of their product at the exhibition, which will be held within in the framework of the iCAT 2012 conference and the European Capital of Culture 2012, in Maribor.

Within all submissions and competition topics, the jury will grant three prizes:

• 1st prize: desktop 3D printer - Ortotip Ciciprint
• 2nd prize: two 3D printed models selected by the author
• 3rd prize: 3D printed prototype selected by the author

No Entry Fee!

It's free to enter.

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Open until 8 March 2012. Approximately 32 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): jovoto.

You can enter or apply for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners Announcement Expected: after 22 March 2012

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Jovoto and Coca-Cola Germany are currently hosting an interesting design award for packaging solutions. The challenge is to create concept designs for the bottle crate of the future.

The Coca-Cola Design+ Award is oriented on the Coca-Cola sustainability strategy “Live the Future”. The packaging is one of the focuses of the worldwide strategy.

The contest provides a platform for young designers, who take on a creative task that tackles technical design, shape, changed consumer needs and challenges regarding environmental sustainability.

Design a Sustainable Coca-Cola Bottle Crate for the Future!

With the Coca-Cola Design+ Award Coca-Cola Germany is now offering young creatives a platform in order to search for new concept ideas for the reusable bottle crate of the future.

Not an easy task: after all, in Germany Coca-Cola bottle crates are already versatile, practical and environmentally-friendly. And new concepts should also be practical and environmentally-friendly with a modern, original design.

There is up to €25,000 that people can win in cash as well as a €7,500 licensing fee.

The submission period is opened until 8th March 2012, and is followed by a only rating period until 22nd March 2012. Shortly after that, the winners will be announced on the jovoto platform.

This contest is a public jovoto contest, that is, everybody can join.

Further details are available on jovoto.

No Entry Fee!

It's free to enter.

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Open until 2 April 2012. Approximately 57 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): Dieline Media, Inwork.

Winners Announcement Expected: April 2012

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The Dieline Package Design Awards presented by Inwork is a worldwide competition devoted exclusively to the art of brand packaging. Launched in 2009, The Dieline Package Design Awards quickly rose to be the nation's leading package design competition, with over 800 entries submitted from all over the world in its first year.

In the 2012 edition, 38 winners across 12 different categories will be awarded a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place Dieline Award, and one special winner will receive a one-of-a-kind Best of Show award.

The Dieline Package Design Awards is a worldwide competition with entries accepted internationally.

The Dieline Package Design Awards Celebrate the Art of Brand Packaging

The Dieline Package Design Awards are open for fresh packaging designs in the following 12 official categories. All submitted entries must have been created, produced, or launched between 1 Dec 2010 and 31 Dec 2011.

The Awards Categories:

1. Food A
2. Food B
3. Food C
4. Non-Alcoholic Beverage
5. Bath, Beauty, Health, Personal
6. Home, Garden & Pets
7. Books, Office & Art Supplies, Toys, Clothes, Accessories, Promotional
8. Electronics, Technology, Movies, CDs
9. Spirits
10. Beer, Malt Beverages, & Tobacco
11. Wine & Champagne
12. Student Category

Want to see the winners of the 2011 Awards? Visit: Entries in the Dieline Awards 2011

All winners in 2012 will receive a trophy, admission to the 2012 Dieline Package Design Awards, an in-depth feature on TheDieline.com and PackageDesignAwards.com and much more! The Dieline Package Design Awards are an excellent opportunity for promoting personal, agency or student work.

The Dieline Package Design Awards ceremony will take place in Boston, Massachusetts on 22 June 2012.

Entries are accepted online only. A completed entry form, including formatted images, and online payment are required for an entry to be accepted.

Entry Fee

• $95 from 2 Jan to 31 Jan 2012
• $115 from 1 Feb to 2 April 2012

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Winners Announcement Expected: late January 2012

Chicon 7 (Worldcon), the premier gathering of authors, artists, fans, dealers, and more in the world science fiction community, invites artists and designers from around the world to create a base that is worthy of the Hugo Award and with a theme appropriate to Chicago and the Midwest.

The Hugo Awards for achievement in science fiction and fantasy have been presented by Worldcons for over 50 years. An instantly recognizable rocket forms the central element of the prestigious trophy, while the base design changes yearly, often reflecting the country, state, or province in which the convention takes place.

The winner will receive a full five-day attending membership to Chicon 7!

Create a Base Worthy of the Hugo Award

The Hugo awards are the premier award in the science fiction genre, honoring science fiction and fantasy literature and media as well as the genre's fans.

Entrants are asked to submit initial drawings, sketches, and/or a fabicated sample of their proposed designs. Entrants also need to arrange for the full set of up to 30 bases to be manufactured if their design is successful, with a target price of no more than $150 per individual base.

All submissions should include:

• Drawings, sketches, and/or a fabricated sample of the proposed base unit.
• Cost estimate per base, and estimated total cost for the fabrication and shipping of 25 base units.
• Lead time is needed for fabrication.
• Your ability to either craft the bases or arrange for the work to be done.

Electronic and postal mail submissions accepted. For more details, please visit the official website.

Win A Full Five-day Membership for Chicon 7!

The winning designer will have the opportunity to introduce the base design as part of the Hugo Awards Ceremony. The base will also be included in the long archive of Hugo base designs, including the Hugo History exhibit that travels to each Worldcon.

In addition, the winner will receive a full five-day attending membership to Chicon 7.

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Open until 5 February 2012, 23:59 EST. Approximately 19 hours remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): Samsung Electronics, THE MEME.

You can enter or apply for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

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THE MEME and Samsung Electronics invite designers and engineers to contribute feasible ideas for embedded support systems for digital cameras. The embedded support system should be integral to the camera (not detachable), hidden (or aesthetically integrated), easy to expand and retract, and usable in as many physical conditions as possible.

The challenge in this competition is to design embedded support systems that come as a replacement to tripods. What if a light, compact support system could be attached to the camera body, expanding only when necessary?

What if your digital camera could support itself on any surface, without having to attach a cumbersome tripod?

Design Original + Creative Embedded Camera Support System

Self-capture, low light, long exposure, and unusual angle of view, are all situations in which people might use a tripod to support and stabilize their camera. However, due to the extra weight and cumbersome process of carrying, unfolding, and setting up the tripod, it is often considered as a special external accessory rather than an everyday tool.

What would you design as a replacement to the tripod?

1. The folding / expansion method of the support system should be the focus of the design innovation. Any and all potential support mechanisms will be considered, including but not limited to: collapsible, retractable, foldable, magnetic, suction, transformable, telescoping, gripping.
2. There should be breadth of situations in which the support system could be utilized. (e.g. terrain, indoor/outdoor, vertical/horizontal, soft/hard, etc.)
3. Your design concept should be very original and creative. Radical and unconventional ideas are welcome.

A Gold Prize of $10,000 for the Winning Design!

The following prize will be awarded for the three selected applicants:

• Gold Prize: $10,000
• Silver Prize: $3,000
• Bronze Prize: $2,000

Only One Entry Per Contestant Allowed

• Every design submission has to be original.
• Applicants should submit their entries only one time. Multiple submissions will not be accepted.
• Participants are obligated to keep their designs undisclosed until the competition results are published.
• The official language of the competition is English.

Register + Submit Your Design via Email

To enter this competition, you first need to register by email. Once registered, you should submit you design, also by email. More detailed instructions are available on the official website.

No Entry Fee!

It's free to enter.

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Open until 18 February 2012. Approximately 13 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): :output Foundation.

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Students, the :output Foundation is inviting you to register your works for the 15th :output Award! The :output Award is the biggest international competition for students in design and architecture.

The best work is honoured with the :output Grand Prix which includes a scholarship of 3,000 Euros.

Every year more than 1,000 students from more than 40 different countries submit their best projects to the competition. An international jury makes the selection which will be presented in the :output yearbook.

Calling for Student Works in Design / Architecture!

Works, not older than one year, related to any area of design and architecture, such as: graphic design / architecture / product design / typography / photography / illustration / typeface design / multimedia, moving image and television graphics / experience design are eligible for submission.

A Chance to Win A €3,000 Scholarship + Get Featured in the :output Yearbook

All projects submitted to the :output competition will be eligible for the :output Grand Prix. An international jury will choose the Grand Prix winner who will receive a scholarship of 3,000 EUR. This scholarship is meant to support young talents in Design and Architecture and to present works from students to a broader design and architectural audience.

All works which have been submitted to the :output Award will be published on the open :output platform. The Grand Prix together with about 80 selected works will not only be published in the :output yearbook but also in the :output hall of fame on the portfolio-platform open:output.org

The :output Award is an Annual International Competition for Students

• Anyone who is currently studying communication design, product design, architecture, inter- action design or film at a university or a college is eligible to participate. Students who have graduated within the last 12 months may also submit final degree works.
• Any work, which has been produced as a student project, is eligible for submission.
• The work may not be older than one year.
• The project does not have to be published.

Register Online, then Send Your Works to the :output Foundation

Submissions should be sent to the :output Foundation, no later than 15 February 2012.

Please read the award's checklist & conditions for further details.

Entry Fee

The entry fee is 30 Euros per work.

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Open until 15 March 2012, 18:00 UTC+01. Approximately 39 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Organizer(s): Czech Design.

You can enter or apply for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners Announcement Expected: May 2012

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The 17th year of the "Young Package" international competition aimed at young designers from all around the world has just been announced! Entries are now being accepted for Young Package 2012!

Young Package 2012 brings only one theme this year – the tea. The task of all participants is to pack an object related to tea drinking. It does not have to be tea leaves or tea bags. Into the competition all packages for objects inspired by tea culture, tea rooms or tea ceremonies are accepted. The packages should represent traditional drink in today´s style.

The competition is aimed at young designers up to 30 years of age. This year the special prize of Slovak Design Centre will be awarded too.

Design an Object Related to Tea Drinking

Beneficial effects of tea leaves poured with boiling water are known in every corner of the world. The hot drink heals, dissolves ailments, tones up, gives energy and it also connects people in a unique social ritual. Let yourselves be inspired by a thousand-year-long culture of tea drinking and create an object that would contribute to its further flowering. Wrap tea leaves, tea bags, prepare a gift package, think of an original tea bag or tea service. Show how such a traditional drink can be presented today.

The competition jury will mainly assess:

• innovativeness and creativity;
• package ergonomics;
• functionality;
• easy manipulation ( packages should be easily open by elder people or children as well ) environmental aspects;
• shape, and originality of the idea;
• constructional imaginativeness;
• quality presentation.

Participants will submit their entries in the form of a full-scale functional model. This means that it must be a functional mock-up; if it is designed to open, it must open. The model must be of high quality, with regard to potential representational and exhibition purposes.

The works can be registered in two groups: high-school students or university students and designers up to 30 years of age.

Young Package 2012 Offers Cash Prizes for the Best Entries in Different Categories

• University students and young designers of up to 30 years of age
  • 1st prize: €1200
  • 2nd prize: €400
  • 3rd prize: €300
  • In this group the Prize of Slovak Design Centre will be awarded.
• High-school students
  • 1st prize: €800
  • 2nd prize: €200
  • 3rd prize: €120

All winners will be also awarded with prizes (books, tickets, magazine subscriptions etc.) from our partners.

A Competition Aimed at Young Designers Up to 30 Years of Age

• High school, college, university students, and designers of up to 30 years of age can register for Young Package 2012.
• Entries sent by postal service will be accepted from participants registered through online registration form.
• The competition category is not limited by existing products.
• Material used for competition work must be material that can be polygraphically processed and of the type used by the company Model Obaly, mainly a whole range of corrugated cardboard, smooth and mock-up board.

Register for Young Package 2012 Online, then Mail Your Entries

An online registration is required after which entries can be mailed to the organizer's address.

Competition entries must be mailed to Czech Design by 15 March 2012, 18:00 UTC+01, carefully wrapped so that they arrive undamaged. Please read the complete Terms and conditions before submitting.

Postal Address:

No Entry Fee!

It's free to enter.

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Winners Announcement Expected: 15 February 2012

You are invited to participate in a design competition for development of sustainable technologies and their components for printing on open source 3-D printers. There are two cash prizes available!

The goal of the contest is to facilitate an open exchange of 3-D sustainable technology designs that can be printed to meet various needs in the context of sustainable and self directed development. 3-D printers such as RepRap and open sourced innovation hold great promise for development of appropriate technologies to help millions of world's poorest communities reach a better standard of living.

Designs will be judged on the technical printing viability, feasibility and functionality of the innovation, as well as sustainability from ecological, economic and social perspectives.

Submit 3-D designs of Sustainability Technologies that Can be Printed

The technological evolution of 3-D printers, widespread Internet access, and inexpensive computing has allowed a new means of open design capable of accelerating sustainable development. A new study has examined how open source 3-D printers, such as the RepRap (http://reprap.org), enable the use of open digital designs to fabricate sustainability technology. These open source appropriate technologies or OSATs, are easily and economically made from readily available resources by local communities to meet their sustainable developmental needs. Examples of OSATs include water pumps, solar powered lighting, and grain mills.

For this contest, you're invited to design sustainable technologies and their components for printing on open source 3-D printers.

It is very important to consider that your designs need to be printable on RepRap, the first low-cost 3D printer. The design must not only be visually appealing but be purposeful in its form factor and highly usable by the intended users.

So, how innovative is your solution from a OSAT design perspective? How realistic is it? Can it be manufactured in the field in the near-term with a solar powered RepRap?

The contest is funded by the Queen's Applied Sustainability Group and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

The goal of this competition is to facilitate an open exchange of 3-D designs of sustainability technologies that can be printed on a RepRap to meet human developmental needs.

The Best Designs will be Awarded with Cash

There will be two monetary prizes and three runner ups, as follows:

• 1st place: $1000 cash
• 2nd place: $250 cash
• 3 Runners Up

All prize winning teams will receive a copy of the book "Makers" by Cory Doctorow.

Only Designs Licensed with Creative Commons are Eligible!

• Anyone can enter the competition but the contestants must post their digital designs on Thingiverse under an open license (e.g. CC-BY-SA).
• It is your sole responsibility to secure any intellectual property rights which may exist in your entry.

Submit Your Designs Online via Thingiverse

To enter this competition, you first need to create a free account on Thingiverse, a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects. Once registered you can submit your designs and tag them appropriately.

Further guidelines can be found in the Complete Official Rules, linked below.

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