Contest Watchers » Interior design http://www.contestwatchers.com Never miss another contest Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:42:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 72 Hour Urban Action Architecture and Design Festival http://www.contestwatchers.com/72-hour-urban-action-architecture-and-design-festival/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/72-hour-urban-action-architecture-and-design-festival/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:55:44 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=999

This contest is open until 8 August 2010. That means you have approximately 7 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by Bat-Yam International Biennale.

This is a free contest, which means that you can enter for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners announcement expected: 15 August 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

72 Hour Urban Action is an international rapid architecture and design festival. Defined by community needs, an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space.

The Bat-Yam International Biennale invites teams of architects, students, designers, artists and craftspeople to respond to community needs from its public spaces.

Selected teams will have three days and three nights to both plan and realize their projects in response to the given missions. Missions will be drawn for each team randomly on launch day.

Objective

You need to plan and realize projects in response to given missions. Missions will be drawn for each team randomly on launch day.

72 Hour Urban Action will take place in Bat-Yam, Israel as part of the Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism.

Prizes

You get:

  • up to $2,500 for Materials
  • Central Prefabrication Camp
  • Sleeping Accommodations
  • Food
  • Angels Team: Construction and Safety Engineers
  • Truck
  • Documentation
  • Fun
  • Fame
  • Fortune: 1st Prize $3,800

Rules

  • Application is free and open to all.
  • The production reserves its right to change the competition at any time.
  • Flight fares will not be covered by the competition.

How to enter?

Complete the application form in Adobe Reader and send it to apply [at] 72HourUrbanAction.com (please replace [at] with @).

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

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This contest is open until 8 August 2010. That means you have approximately 7 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by Bat-Yam International Biennale.

This is a free contest, which means that you can enter for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners announcement expected: 15 August 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

72 Hour Urban Action is an international rapid architecture and design festival. Defined by community needs, an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space.

The Bat-Yam International Biennale invites teams of architects, students, designers, artists and craftspeople to respond to community needs from its public spaces.

Selected teams will have three days and three nights to both plan and realize their projects in response to the given missions. Missions will be drawn for each team randomly on launch day.

Objective

You need to plan and realize projects in response to given missions. Missions will be drawn for each team randomly on launch day.

72 Hour Urban Action will take place in Bat-Yam, Israel as part of the Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism.

Prizes

You get:

  • up to $2,500 for Materials
  • Central Prefabrication Camp
  • Sleeping Accommodations
  • Food
  • Angels Team: Construction and Safety Engineers
  • Truck
  • Documentation
  • Fun
  • Fame
  • Fortune: 1st Prize $3,800

Rules

  • Application is free and open to all.
  • The production reserves its right to change the competition at any time.
  • Flight fares will not be covered by the competition.

How to enter?

Complete the application form in Adobe Reader and send it to apply [at] 72HourUrbanAction.com (please replace [at] with @).

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/72-hour-urban-action-architecture-and-design-festival/feed/ 0 INDEX: Design Challenge 2010 http://www.contestwatchers.com/index-design-challenge-2010/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/index-design-challenge-2010/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:23:06 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=950

This contest is open until 26 November 2010. That means you have approximately 117 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by INDEX.

This is a free contest, which means that you can enter for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners announcement expected: December 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

This year's challenge is a partnership between INDEX: Design to Improve Life, a Denmarkbased nonprofit organization promoting the application of design and design processes to improve important areas of people's lives worldwide, and UNICEF, the globally recognized organization that advocates for the rights of children all across the world.

The theme of this year's challenge is Designing for Education, a call for design and business students as well as cross-disciplinary student teams to develop design solutions that improve education and the educational environment in developing regions.

Objective

The objective is first and foremost to encourage students from around the world to apply their design skills to global challenges. An additional objective is to teach students about the various processes needed to bring their designs to market, since that is, of course, a precondition for the designs to make an actual difference.

UNICEF has many years of experience working with children in developing countries, and it has pinpointed five challenges that are very relevant to fulfilling the MDGs as well as appropriate for various design disciplines. UNICEF will supply participating students with facts and figures on impact, geographical spread, scale, existing solutions, possible side effects, and other relevant data pertaining to the five cases so that students' solutions can be as realistic as possible.

The INDEX: Design Challenge has three sub-themes, combined with an open challenge:

  • Improved Education Facilities can improve life in obvious ways by making school an enjoyable experience while increasing learning ability by improving attention.
  • Sanitation and Hygiene improve life of students with a healthier environment, thereby reducing illnesses and absences.
  • Gender Parity in Education should ensure that girls get the same opportunity to go to school as boys and thereby improve their lives through equal opportunities, eliminating gender disparity in education.

Prizes

Finalists take part in a workshop in Copenhagen, followed by an award ceremony.

Rules

  • INDEX: calls for faculty, students and recent graduates to participate in the upcoming INDEX: Design Challenge developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF.
  • Design students are encouraged to lead cross-disciplinary teams of engineers, artists, ethnographers, anthropologists, and scientists. Students are also urged to consider the social, cultural, and scientific significance of education and education environments.
  • The challenges target students from all the design disciplines.
  • There are no restrictions on the type of solutions that students may submit.
  • Print design, Web applications, environment design, physical devices, data presentation tools, and other approaches are all encouraged, as are proposals for the conceptual framework or method of dissemination that may propel these designs into public consciousness.

How to enter?

Design students, teams of students, and educators wanting to enter the design challenge are required to register by e-mail to lvk [at] indexaward.dk (please replace [at] with @).

The e-mail should contain the name, title, and e-mail address of the contact person, the name and country of the institution and department, and an estimate of how many students will enter.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

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This contest is open until 26 November 2010. That means you have approximately 117 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by INDEX.

This is a free contest, which means that you can enter for free and without the need of paying an entry fee.

Winners announcement expected: December 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

This year's challenge is a partnership between INDEX: Design to Improve Life, a Denmarkbased nonprofit organization promoting the application of design and design processes to improve important areas of people's lives worldwide, and UNICEF, the globally recognized organization that advocates for the rights of children all across the world.

The theme of this year's challenge is Designing for Education, a call for design and business students as well as cross-disciplinary student teams to develop design solutions that improve education and the educational environment in developing regions.

Objective

The objective is first and foremost to encourage students from around the world to apply their design skills to global challenges. An additional objective is to teach students about the various processes needed to bring their designs to market, since that is, of course, a precondition for the designs to make an actual difference.

UNICEF has many years of experience working with children in developing countries, and it has pinpointed five challenges that are very relevant to fulfilling the MDGs as well as appropriate for various design disciplines. UNICEF will supply participating students with facts and figures on impact, geographical spread, scale, existing solutions, possible side effects, and other relevant data pertaining to the five cases so that students' solutions can be as realistic as possible.

The INDEX: Design Challenge has three sub-themes, combined with an open challenge:

  • Improved Education Facilities can improve life in obvious ways by making school an enjoyable experience while increasing learning ability by improving attention.
  • Sanitation and Hygiene improve life of students with a healthier environment, thereby reducing illnesses and absences.
  • Gender Parity in Education should ensure that girls get the same opportunity to go to school as boys and thereby improve their lives through equal opportunities, eliminating gender disparity in education.

Prizes

Finalists take part in a workshop in Copenhagen, followed by an award ceremony.

Rules

  • INDEX: calls for faculty, students and recent graduates to participate in the upcoming INDEX: Design Challenge developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF.
  • Design students are encouraged to lead cross-disciplinary teams of engineers, artists, ethnographers, anthropologists, and scientists. Students are also urged to consider the social, cultural, and scientific significance of education and education environments.
  • The challenges target students from all the design disciplines.
  • There are no restrictions on the type of solutions that students may submit.
  • Print design, Web applications, environment design, physical devices, data presentation tools, and other approaches are all encouraged, as are proposals for the conceptual framework or method of dissemination that may propel these designs into public consciousness.

How to enter?

Design students, teams of students, and educators wanting to enter the design challenge are required to register by e-mail to lvk [at] indexaward.dk (please replace [at] with @).

The e-mail should contain the name, title, and e-mail address of the contact person, the name and country of the institution and department, and an estimate of how many students will enter.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/index-design-challenge-2010/feed/ 0 Moon Capital Competition 2010 – SHIFTboston http://www.contestwatchers.com/moon-capital-competition-2010-shiftboston/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/moon-capital-competition-2010-shiftboston/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:49:02 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=924

This contest is open until 3 September 2010. That means you have approximately 33 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by SHIFTboston.

Winners announcement expected: 21 October 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

When considering the future of design let's start looking out into space. What if we could occupy the Moon only 100 years after our first visit there in July of 1969? Might the Moon become an independent, self-sustaining, and sovereign state? If so why not start designing for that new world now?

SHIFTboston calls on all architects, artists, landscape architects, urban designers, industrial designers, planners, engineers, and anyone else who would like to propose a Lunar concept.

Think beyond what is familiar and envision design in deep space.

Objective

Submit your designs in the following categories.

  • Competition Category 1: Let's get serious

    Detailed information about Category 1

    Design a second generation living and working moon habitat. Written by Dr. Marc Cohen, a leader in the space architecture industry and a registered architect, the architectural program consists of four components: an above surface access unit, surface laboratories, an agricultural zone, and a core habitat located under the lunar surface.

    You will be designing an actual lunar base and will be contributing to advancements in design in the space architecture industry. There has never been an open competition such as this before. You are given the opportunity to learn more about designing for extreme environments. You will be walking away understanding more than you ever have about our Moon and living in space.

  • Competition Category 2: Let's have fun

    Detailed information about Category 2

    SHIFTboston seeks to collect visions that will re-imagine the Moon as a new destination. Radical ideas for new lunar elements such as rovers, growing pods, inflatable structures, droids, clothing, and habitats are wanted. Envision an entire Lunar City! How about a new Moon culture? What would it look like? Sound like? Envision having fun on the moon with activities, fashion, and spacesuits!

Prizes

The honorary recipients will receive a US $1,000 cash prize and present at the Moon Capital Forum at the Cyclorama in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, 21 October 2010. The Forum will be a panoramic gala event, attendees will include members of the Moon Capital Competition jury and advisory panel, astronauts, leading aerospace and astrophysics engineers, government, community, industry and academic leaders along with architects and other design professionals.

The winning entry will be displayed in a new virtual moon game and become part of the Moon Capital Exhibit at the Johnson Space Center. Selected entries will be promoted on the SHIFTboston blog, website. Entries will also be selected as part of a new “Moon Independence” book.

Rules

  • Entries can be from individuals or multi-disciplinary teams.
  • All entries must be anonymous. Do not include logos or other images or text that could indicate the origin of the design.
  • Entries must be formatted to fit a single 24” x 36” (60cm x 90cm) board (landscape orientation). The board may include any drawings and three-dimensional representation of the proposed concept along with any supporting text. Inventive and multi-graphical presentations are encouraged.
  • Applicants must submit their design electronically, labeled with the applicant's application number and name (first initial, last name). i.e. app#_jDoe.pdf
  • Include a signed scanned PDF of your Permission Form for Textual and Visual Works with your submission or fax it to 617 - 951-0845.
  • If applicable, please include a maximum of two high-resolution images representative of your entry content.

    These must be in JPEG or TIFF format (300dpi, CMYK). These images should contain no text and must be named according to the convention mentioned above with the appendage “img#”, for example: “2010M100_jDoe_img1.jpg” [app#_name_img#]

How to enter?

Register on the official website and pay the registration fee via Pay Pal. Then upload your designs.

Entry fee

The entry fee is US $50 for individuals and US $75 for a company or organization, paid through PayPal after registering on the official website.

All payments are final and nonrefundable. Refunds will not be provided if the submission is disqualified.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

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This contest is open until 3 September 2010. That means you have approximately 33 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by SHIFTboston.

Winners announcement expected: 21 October 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

When considering the future of design let's start looking out into space. What if we could occupy the Moon only 100 years after our first visit there in July of 1969? Might the Moon become an independent, self-sustaining, and sovereign state? If so why not start designing for that new world now?

SHIFTboston calls on all architects, artists, landscape architects, urban designers, industrial designers, planners, engineers, and anyone else who would like to propose a Lunar concept.

Think beyond what is familiar and envision design in deep space.

Objective

Submit your designs in the following categories.

  • Competition Category 1: Let's get serious

    Detailed information about Category 1

    Design a second generation living and working moon habitat. Written by Dr. Marc Cohen, a leader in the space architecture industry and a registered architect, the architectural program consists of four components: an above surface access unit, surface laboratories, an agricultural zone, and a core habitat located under the lunar surface.

    You will be designing an actual lunar base and will be contributing to advancements in design in the space architecture industry. There has never been an open competition such as this before. You are given the opportunity to learn more about designing for extreme environments. You will be walking away understanding more than you ever have about our Moon and living in space.

  • Competition Category 2: Let's have fun

    Detailed information about Category 2

    SHIFTboston seeks to collect visions that will re-imagine the Moon as a new destination. Radical ideas for new lunar elements such as rovers, growing pods, inflatable structures, droids, clothing, and habitats are wanted. Envision an entire Lunar City! How about a new Moon culture? What would it look like? Sound like? Envision having fun on the moon with activities, fashion, and spacesuits!

Prizes

The honorary recipients will receive a US $1,000 cash prize and present at the Moon Capital Forum at the Cyclorama in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, 21 October 2010. The Forum will be a panoramic gala event, attendees will include members of the Moon Capital Competition jury and advisory panel, astronauts, leading aerospace and astrophysics engineers, government, community, industry and academic leaders along with architects and other design professionals.

The winning entry will be displayed in a new virtual moon game and become part of the Moon Capital Exhibit at the Johnson Space Center. Selected entries will be promoted on the SHIFTboston blog, website. Entries will also be selected as part of a new “Moon Independence” book.

Rules

  • Entries can be from individuals or multi-disciplinary teams.
  • All entries must be anonymous. Do not include logos or other images or text that could indicate the origin of the design.
  • Entries must be formatted to fit a single 24” x 36” (60cm x 90cm) board (landscape orientation). The board may include any drawings and three-dimensional representation of the proposed concept along with any supporting text. Inventive and multi-graphical presentations are encouraged.
  • Applicants must submit their design electronically, labeled with the applicant's application number and name (first initial, last name). i.e. app#_jDoe.pdf
  • Include a signed scanned PDF of your Permission Form for Textual and Visual Works with your submission or fax it to 617 - 951-0845.
  • If applicable, please include a maximum of two high-resolution images representative of your entry content.

    These must be in JPEG or TIFF format (300dpi, CMYK). These images should contain no text and must be named according to the convention mentioned above with the appendage “img#”, for example: “2010M100_jDoe_img1.jpg” [app#_name_img#]

How to enter?

Register on the official website and pay the registration fee via Pay Pal. Then upload your designs.

Entry fee

The entry fee is US $50 for individuals and US $75 for a company or organization, paid through PayPal after registering on the official website.

All payments are final and nonrefundable. Refunds will not be provided if the submission is disqualified.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/moon-capital-competition-2010-shiftboston/feed/ 0 Sketch-A-Space Competition http://www.contestwatchers.com/sketch-a-space-competition/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/sketch-a-space-competition/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:10:14 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=919

This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Winners announcement expected: 15 September - 15 October, 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Easter Seals and Google SketchUp have teamed up to launch this first-of-its-kind online competition. The Easter Seals' Sketch-A-Space competition offers people with autism - and those interested in learning more about autism or who have someone in their life that lives with autism - an opportunity to design their ideal, dream space using Google SketchUp's free 3-D modeling software.

Design the room or space of your dreams - for a chance to win $2,000 to make that dream space come true. Join Sketch-A-Space in helping to make spaces more accessible to people living with autism!

Objective

Design the room or space of your dreams.

There are four competition categories:

  1. Youth with Autism: individuals with autism age 13 - 17
  2. Adult with Autism: individuals with autism age 18 and over
  3. Youth: individuals without autism age 13 - 17
  4. Adult: individuals without autism age 18 and over

Prizes

Of the four (4) contest Finalists selected, three (3) will win $1,000 in the form of a check or gift card to the winner's choice of a home design/home improvement store.

One (1) grand prize winner will be selected from the finalists and will receive $2,000 in the form of a check or gift card to the winner's choice of a home design/home improvement store.

Rules

  • The competition is open to any interested party age thirteen (13) and older within the United States. Anyone below the age of eighteen (18) must obtain the permission of a parent or legal guardian prior to entering, and the parent or guardian must consent to be bound - on their child's and their own behalf - to the Official Rules. The competition is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, and is void where prohibited by law.
  • Employees of Organizer as well as their immediate families (spouse, parent, sibling, child, and spouse of any of the foregoing) and those living in their immediate households, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the competition or to win a prize.
  • Entrants share their ideas utilizing a unique Google Sites Entry Page, which shall include a Google SketchUp model, YouTube video(s), photograph(s) and a narrative.
  • The room shall be no larger than 200 square feet.

How to enter?

The Sketch-A-Space Contest requires you to:

To get started, you will first work in the Google Site Template to create your space and save your work as your own unique Google Site. You must name and save your entry page. This template will become your final submission, showcasing your completed space with a required video, pictures, and description of your space. Be creative!

Your entry page will have a unique URL that you will use for your competition entry on Easter Seals' Submission Page. Make sure to read all of the competition rules before submitting your entry.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

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This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Winners announcement expected: 15 September - 15 October, 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Easter Seals and Google SketchUp have teamed up to launch this first-of-its-kind online competition. The Easter Seals' Sketch-A-Space competition offers people with autism - and those interested in learning more about autism or who have someone in their life that lives with autism - an opportunity to design their ideal, dream space using Google SketchUp's free 3-D modeling software.

Design the room or space of your dreams - for a chance to win $2,000 to make that dream space come true. Join Sketch-A-Space in helping to make spaces more accessible to people living with autism!

Objective

Design the room or space of your dreams.

There are four competition categories:

  1. Youth with Autism: individuals with autism age 13 - 17
  2. Adult with Autism: individuals with autism age 18 and over
  3. Youth: individuals without autism age 13 - 17
  4. Adult: individuals without autism age 18 and over

Prizes

Of the four (4) contest Finalists selected, three (3) will win $1,000 in the form of a check or gift card to the winner's choice of a home design/home improvement store.

One (1) grand prize winner will be selected from the finalists and will receive $2,000 in the form of a check or gift card to the winner's choice of a home design/home improvement store.

Rules

  • The competition is open to any interested party age thirteen (13) and older within the United States. Anyone below the age of eighteen (18) must obtain the permission of a parent or legal guardian prior to entering, and the parent or guardian must consent to be bound - on their child's and their own behalf - to the Official Rules. The competition is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, and is void where prohibited by law.
  • Employees of Organizer as well as their immediate families (spouse, parent, sibling, child, and spouse of any of the foregoing) and those living in their immediate households, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the competition or to win a prize.
  • Entrants share their ideas utilizing a unique Google Sites Entry Page, which shall include a Google SketchUp model, YouTube video(s), photograph(s) and a narrative.
  • The room shall be no larger than 200 square feet.

How to enter?

The Sketch-A-Space Contest requires you to:

To get started, you will first work in the Google Site Template to create your space and save your work as your own unique Google Site. You must name and save your entry page. This template will become your final submission, showcasing your completed space with a required video, pictures, and description of your space. Be creative!

Your entry page will have a unique URL that you will use for your competition entry on Easter Seals' Submission Page. Make sure to read all of the competition rules before submitting your entry.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/sketch-a-space-competition/feed/ 0 Playable10 Competition http://www.contestwatchers.com/playable10-competition/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/playable10-competition/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 15:57:52 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=907

This contest is open until 1 October 2010. That means you have approximately 61 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Winners announcement expected: November 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Playable is the annual global search for inspiring play design.

Playable10 invites designers of all types from around the world to design playground equipment and spaces that will give a sense of place, wonder and fun so strong that they will entice children, teens and adults outdoors to play.

Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Taskforce on Play (ATOP) are organizing the Playable10 competition in a belief that the talent is out there to find the answers to the challenges presented.

Introduction

Children's health is suffering because the appeal of sitting in front of an electronic screen is winning out over getting outside to play. Conditions such as childhood obesity, diabetes, ADHD, and vitamin D deficiencies (and many others) are on the increase, but their symptoms are lessened and sometimes eliminated by regular outdoor play. The problem is that many playgrounds are without challenges and look the same as every other playground and so a child's excitement is soon lost, if they even go out there in the first place.

Another problem is that manufactured playgrounds can be too expensive for some communities so their children do without. We think there are options for everyone to "win" in this game by building their own play areas with easily found materials, incorporating manufactured equipment in creative ways, building play areas different from any we have ever seen before, and even building a fort in your own backyard.

The idea for Playable10 came from the highly successful 1954 Playable Sculpture Competition put on by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Objective

Create innovative, inspiring, sustainable, multigenerational play spaces with the power to change communities and lives.

The categories in the competition are:

  • Playable Art
  • Playable Site
  • Playable D-I-Y

Prizes

The winning site-specific playgrounds will be built at the following sites:

  • One (1) winning playspace built in Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta in 2011;
  • One (1) winning conceptual master plan design has the potential to be a great influence on the Atlanta Beltline (see category for explanation).

Also an exhibition of the most interesting designs submitted to Playable10 will be held with the Designing for Play Symposium at Georgia Tech. Talks are underway to develop a touring exhibit.

Rules

  • Playable10 is wide open to all creative people.
  • The evaluation criteria are:
    • playability
    • originality
    • sustainability
    • feasibility
    • multi-generational
    • accessibility
    • inspire movement

How to enter?

Register on the official website and submit your entries.

Entry fee

Registration is $50 USD for everyone and $25 USD for students with a copy of a current student ID.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

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This contest is open until 1 October 2010. That means you have approximately 61 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Winners announcement expected: November 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Playable is the annual global search for inspiring play design.

Playable10 invites designers of all types from around the world to design playground equipment and spaces that will give a sense of place, wonder and fun so strong that they will entice children, teens and adults outdoors to play.

Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Taskforce on Play (ATOP) are organizing the Playable10 competition in a belief that the talent is out there to find the answers to the challenges presented.

Introduction

Children's health is suffering because the appeal of sitting in front of an electronic screen is winning out over getting outside to play. Conditions such as childhood obesity, diabetes, ADHD, and vitamin D deficiencies (and many others) are on the increase, but their symptoms are lessened and sometimes eliminated by regular outdoor play. The problem is that many playgrounds are without challenges and look the same as every other playground and so a child's excitement is soon lost, if they even go out there in the first place.

Another problem is that manufactured playgrounds can be too expensive for some communities so their children do without. We think there are options for everyone to "win" in this game by building their own play areas with easily found materials, incorporating manufactured equipment in creative ways, building play areas different from any we have ever seen before, and even building a fort in your own backyard.

The idea for Playable10 came from the highly successful 1954 Playable Sculpture Competition put on by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Objective

Create innovative, inspiring, sustainable, multigenerational play spaces with the power to change communities and lives.

The categories in the competition are:

  • Playable Art
  • Playable Site
  • Playable D-I-Y

Prizes

The winning site-specific playgrounds will be built at the following sites:

  • One (1) winning playspace built in Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta in 2011;
  • One (1) winning conceptual master plan design has the potential to be a great influence on the Atlanta Beltline (see category for explanation).

Also an exhibition of the most interesting designs submitted to Playable10 will be held with the Designing for Play Symposium at Georgia Tech. Talks are underway to develop a touring exhibit.

Rules

  • Playable10 is wide open to all creative people.
  • The evaluation criteria are:
    • playability
    • originality
    • sustainability
    • feasibility
    • multi-generational
    • accessibility
    • inspire movement

How to enter?

Register on the official website and submit your entries.

Entry fee

Registration is $50 USD for everyone and $25 USD for students with a copy of a current student ID.

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]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/playable10-competition/feed/ 3 Who’s Next 2.0 – FreeGreen http://www.contestwatchers.com/who%e2%80%99s-next-2-0-freegreen/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/who%e2%80%99s-next-2-0-freegreen/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 10:32:48 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=901

This contest is open until 1 September 2010. That means you have approximately 31 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by FreeGreen.

Winners announcement expected: 26 September 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Freegreen is challenging you to help defining the design concept of Affordable Luxury. Gone are the days of free-flowing mortgages, and multi-million dollar McMansions. In this “new normal” home owners still desire livable, ascetically pleasing, and luxurious homes, but now need these same concepts implemented into smaller more affordable residential structures.

This creates the perfect opportunity for the design community to take charge of this challenge and be the first to create new home designs, and design delivery methods, that meet today's restraints and requirements.

Objective

You will have to select one of the two user profiles (Profile 1, Profile 2) and design a single family home that fits the profile you've chosen.

The Who's Next 2.0 Judging Criteria is as follows:

  • Livability: Has the design entry met the needs, requirements, and desires represented in the Contest Profile for which the entry has been designed.
  • Affordability: Could the design be built for the targeted budget range of $220,000 to $410,000. It is understood that all entries are only schematic designs, and best efforts will be made by the Jury to interpret design intent and establish reasonable estimates on cost.
  • Clarity: Does the entry have clear, concise, and appropriate description text with each image that explains how the entry (and a given representation) is addressing a given Contest Profile, or General Contest requirement.
  • Buildability: Could this house actually be built. Please remember that this competition is looking to help change the residential design landscape. If you cannot build a home, then you cannot create real change.
  • Representation: Different architects work in different ways. Some emphasize photo realistic renderings while others focus on perfecting traditional architectural drawings. We think that all types of representation are great, but we are specifically looking for entries that show high quality representation, and create strong entry identities.

Prizes

  • Best In Show ($5,000 Prize)
    • $5,000 Cash - For the best design across both contest profiles
    • The implementation of your design into a true house plan (full construction document set) by FreeGreen, to which you will retain the rights.
    • Your winning house plan will be posted on the FreeGreen for-sale House Plan website, Better House Plans
  • Best In Class (Two $1,000 Prizes)
    • $1,000 Cash - For the best design in each profile (the Best In Show Design is excluded)
    • The implementation of your design into a true house plan (full construction document set) by FreeGreen, to which you will retain the rights.
    • Your winning house plan will be posted on the FreeGreen for-sale House Plan website, Better House Plans

Rules

  • The competition is open to all interested parties throughout the world, regardless of age (although you must be at least 18 years old), discipline, and professional status. Students are welcome and encouraged to enter.
  • Entrants may submit work independently or as a group or through the instructor.
  • The following are exceptions to eligibility: The firms, professional partners, and immediate family members of the Competition jurors.
  • There will be no anonymity in this contest. Entrants will actually be encouraged to associate your name, firm, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other properties with your entry.
  • You will be required to submit 9 images of their design.
  • You need to have the ability to write text to describe each of your images.
  • You will also be encouraged to list your related contact information, websites, and other properties to represent yourself with your entries.
  • All images can be submitted in a JPG format and can be up to 990 X 660 (pixels) in size. All images must be submitted in RGB format to show up correct on the Who's Next 2.0 Pubic Voting website, and it is expected that all submitted images will be optimized for web viewing at 72DPI.

How to enter?

You are required to register for the competition prior to submitting your entries. In order to complete registration, you must submit a registration fee.

Entry fee

The registration fee is $50 USD for both professionals and students prior to 1 September 2010.

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This contest is open until 1 September 2010. That means you have approximately 31 days remaining to attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

This contest is organized by FreeGreen.

Winners announcement expected: 26 September 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Freegreen is challenging you to help defining the design concept of Affordable Luxury. Gone are the days of free-flowing mortgages, and multi-million dollar McMansions. In this “new normal” home owners still desire livable, ascetically pleasing, and luxurious homes, but now need these same concepts implemented into smaller more affordable residential structures.

This creates the perfect opportunity for the design community to take charge of this challenge and be the first to create new home designs, and design delivery methods, that meet today's restraints and requirements.

Objective

You will have to select one of the two user profiles (Profile 1, Profile 2) and design a single family home that fits the profile you've chosen.

The Who's Next 2.0 Judging Criteria is as follows:

  • Livability: Has the design entry met the needs, requirements, and desires represented in the Contest Profile for which the entry has been designed.
  • Affordability: Could the design be built for the targeted budget range of $220,000 to $410,000. It is understood that all entries are only schematic designs, and best efforts will be made by the Jury to interpret design intent and establish reasonable estimates on cost.
  • Clarity: Does the entry have clear, concise, and appropriate description text with each image that explains how the entry (and a given representation) is addressing a given Contest Profile, or General Contest requirement.
  • Buildability: Could this house actually be built. Please remember that this competition is looking to help change the residential design landscape. If you cannot build a home, then you cannot create real change.
  • Representation: Different architects work in different ways. Some emphasize photo realistic renderings while others focus on perfecting traditional architectural drawings. We think that all types of representation are great, but we are specifically looking for entries that show high quality representation, and create strong entry identities.

Prizes

  • Best In Show ($5,000 Prize)
    • $5,000 Cash - For the best design across both contest profiles
    • The implementation of your design into a true house plan (full construction document set) by FreeGreen, to which you will retain the rights.
    • Your winning house plan will be posted on the FreeGreen for-sale House Plan website, Better House Plans
  • Best In Class (Two $1,000 Prizes)
    • $1,000 Cash - For the best design in each profile (the Best In Show Design is excluded)
    • The implementation of your design into a true house plan (full construction document set) by FreeGreen, to which you will retain the rights.
    • Your winning house plan will be posted on the FreeGreen for-sale House Plan website, Better House Plans

Rules

  • The competition is open to all interested parties throughout the world, regardless of age (although you must be at least 18 years old), discipline, and professional status. Students are welcome and encouraged to enter.
  • Entrants may submit work independently or as a group or through the instructor.
  • The following are exceptions to eligibility: The firms, professional partners, and immediate family members of the Competition jurors.
  • There will be no anonymity in this contest. Entrants will actually be encouraged to associate your name, firm, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other properties with your entry.
  • You will be required to submit 9 images of their design.
  • You need to have the ability to write text to describe each of your images.
  • You will also be encouraged to list your related contact information, websites, and other properties to represent yourself with your entries.
  • All images can be submitted in a JPG format and can be up to 990 X 660 (pixels) in size. All images must be submitted in RGB format to show up correct on the Who's Next 2.0 Pubic Voting website, and it is expected that all submitted images will be optimized for web viewing at 72DPI.

How to enter?

You are required to register for the competition prior to submitting your entries. In order to complete registration, you must submit a registration fee.

Entry fee

The registration fee is $50 USD for both professionals and students prior to 1 September 2010.

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]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/who%e2%80%99s-next-2-0-freegreen/feed/ 0 LEAF Awards 2010 http://www.contestwatchers.com/leaf-awards-2010/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/leaf-awards-2010/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 11:06:24 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=842

This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Winners announcement expected: 10 September 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Now in its seventh year, the LEAF Awards honours the architects designing the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community.

The awards are open to all individuals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the world of architecture.

As a winner of one of the category awards you will have the opportunity to collect your award at the prestigious ceremony on 10 September 2010 in London, UK.

Objective

Submit your applications to the following award categories:

  • LEAF Award Winner
  • Mixed-Use Building of the Year
  • Residential Building of the Year (single occupancy) / Residential Building of the Year (multiple occupancy)
  • Commercial Building of the Year
  • International Interior Design Award *
  • Master Planning & Landscaping
  • Young Architect
  • Best Structural Design of the Year
  • Best Sustainable Development *
  • Public Building *

* The completion date for submitted projects must be between January 2009 and June 2010.

Prizes

The LEAF Awards 2010 will be announced at the LEAF Awards Gala Dinner, to be held in London on 10 September.

As a winner of one of the category awards you will have the opportunity to collect your award at this prestigious ceremony. By entering and ultimately winning you are able to place your organisation as a leading practice within the international architectural community.

Winning entries will feature throughout the Cornhill Publications Ltd product portfolio. If the submission should win any LEAF award, the entrant agrees to make available further information and publication-worthy graphic material as required by Cornhill Publications Ltd. The winning entrant will be responsible for exhibiting this project work. Arena International Events Group takes no responsibility for this winning exhibit.

Rules

  • The LEAF Awards are open to all architects, suppliers and other design professionals practicing internationally.
  • Projects must be completed within three years of qualification.
  • All entrants are encouraged to include copies of preliminary sketches, alternative preliminary schemes, information on context, precedents for the design and excerpts from working drawings.

How to enter?

Submit your applications on the official website.

Submissions should take the form of a 400 to 500-word written paper with the addition of supporting illustrations and pictures. Each submission should cover the issue, the solution and the end result. No more than ten pictures should be submitted.

The deadline for the receipt of entries and all supporting materials is 1 July 2010.

Entry fee

An entry fee must accompany each submission. The fee is £250, which includes a one-year subscription to The LEAF Review. Each entry after the initial entry is £200.

The fee for the Young Architect of the Year Award is £50, including a subscription to The LEAF Review.

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This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Winners announcement expected: 10 September 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Now in its seventh year, the LEAF Awards honours the architects designing the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community.

The awards are open to all individuals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the world of architecture.

As a winner of one of the category awards you will have the opportunity to collect your award at the prestigious ceremony on 10 September 2010 in London, UK.

Objective

Submit your applications to the following award categories:

  • LEAF Award Winner
  • Mixed-Use Building of the Year
  • Residential Building of the Year (single occupancy) / Residential Building of the Year (multiple occupancy)
  • Commercial Building of the Year
  • International Interior Design Award *
  • Master Planning & Landscaping
  • Young Architect
  • Best Structural Design of the Year
  • Best Sustainable Development *
  • Public Building *

* The completion date for submitted projects must be between January 2009 and June 2010.

Prizes

The LEAF Awards 2010 will be announced at the LEAF Awards Gala Dinner, to be held in London on 10 September.

As a winner of one of the category awards you will have the opportunity to collect your award at this prestigious ceremony. By entering and ultimately winning you are able to place your organisation as a leading practice within the international architectural community.

Winning entries will feature throughout the Cornhill Publications Ltd product portfolio. If the submission should win any LEAF award, the entrant agrees to make available further information and publication-worthy graphic material as required by Cornhill Publications Ltd. The winning entrant will be responsible for exhibiting this project work. Arena International Events Group takes no responsibility for this winning exhibit.

Rules

  • The LEAF Awards are open to all architects, suppliers and other design professionals practicing internationally.
  • Projects must be completed within three years of qualification.
  • All entrants are encouraged to include copies of preliminary sketches, alternative preliminary schemes, information on context, precedents for the design and excerpts from working drawings.

How to enter?

Submit your applications on the official website.

Submissions should take the form of a 400 to 500-word written paper with the addition of supporting illustrations and pictures. Each submission should cover the issue, the solution and the end result. No more than ten pictures should be submitted.

The deadline for the receipt of entries and all supporting materials is 1 July 2010.

Entry fee

An entry fee must accompany each submission. The fee is £250, which includes a one-year subscription to The LEAF Review. Each entry after the initial entry is £200.

The fee for the Young Architect of the Year Award is £50, including a subscription to The LEAF Review.

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]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/leaf-awards-2010/feed/ 0 Urban SOS : Transformations http://www.contestwatchers.com/urban-sos-transformations/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/urban-sos-transformations/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 08:54:27 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=841

This contestis open until 31 July 2010. That means that this is the last day that you can attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Winners announcement expected: 5 November 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

This open student ideas competition seeks to engage students in the design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering, environmental and related fields, with the urban conditions that are now facing the majority of the world's population.

This year, Urban SOS is exploring the topic of 'Transformations,' looking at seven cities in particular that are in the midst of a change or collection of changes that represent both challenges and opportunities to the shared futures of each city.

The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of higher education in all countries of the world.

Objective

This is your opportunity to compete with the best young thinkers out there in the world of integrated place-making, and your work will come to the attention of the best professionals in the process. The experience will be challenging, exciting and fun.

You must submit a site redevelopment plan that addresses specific issues in one of the following seven cities:

  • Beijing, China
  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Istanbul, Turkey
  • Phoenix, USA
  • Port au Prince, Haïti
  • São Paulo, Brazil

Responses will be judged based on these criteria:

  • Response directly answers stated question for chosen city
  • Clear strategy for how proposal will affect larger city's transformative state
  • Clear sense of how proposed design will affect transformation of site
  • Holistic approach to design that fully embraces site
  • Appreciation for interdisciplinary thinking beyond traditional practice
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Feasibility and viability
  • Ability to communicate ideas in a clear, interesting and compelling manner

Prizes

The top four finalist/teams will travel to Barcelona to attend the World Architecture Festival from 3 - 5 November 2010, with $20,000 in prize money at stake.

Rules

  • The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of higher education in all countries of the world.
  • Entrants must be enrolled in a certified degree programme during the Autumn 2010 term.
    • Levels: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D. students.
    • Fields of Study: Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Economics, Environmental Science, Engineering, and related disciplines.
  • Submissions may be from individuals or teams of up to 4 members. Teams will benefit from having members of multiple disciplines.

How to enter?

Apply and submit via the official website.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

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This contestis open until 31 July 2010. That means that this is the last day that you can attend. Read on to find out more details about how you can enter.

Winners announcement expected: 5 November 2010.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

This open student ideas competition seeks to engage students in the design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering, environmental and related fields, with the urban conditions that are now facing the majority of the world's population.

This year, Urban SOS is exploring the topic of 'Transformations,' looking at seven cities in particular that are in the midst of a change or collection of changes that represent both challenges and opportunities to the shared futures of each city.

The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of higher education in all countries of the world.

Objective

This is your opportunity to compete with the best young thinkers out there in the world of integrated place-making, and your work will come to the attention of the best professionals in the process. The experience will be challenging, exciting and fun.

You must submit a site redevelopment plan that addresses specific issues in one of the following seven cities:

  • Beijing, China
  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Istanbul, Turkey
  • Phoenix, USA
  • Port au Prince, Haïti
  • São Paulo, Brazil

Responses will be judged based on these criteria:

  • Response directly answers stated question for chosen city
  • Clear strategy for how proposal will affect larger city's transformative state
  • Clear sense of how proposed design will affect transformation of site
  • Holistic approach to design that fully embraces site
  • Appreciation for interdisciplinary thinking beyond traditional practice
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Feasibility and viability
  • Ability to communicate ideas in a clear, interesting and compelling manner

Prizes

The top four finalist/teams will travel to Barcelona to attend the World Architecture Festival from 3 - 5 November 2010, with $20,000 in prize money at stake.

Rules

  • The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of higher education in all countries of the world.
  • Entrants must be enrolled in a certified degree programme during the Autumn 2010 term.
    • Levels: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D. students.
    • Fields of Study: Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Economics, Environmental Science, Engineering, and related disciplines.
  • Submissions may be from individuals or teams of up to 4 members. Teams will benefit from having members of multiple disciplines.

How to enter?

Apply and submit via the official website.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

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]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/urban-sos-transformations/feed/ 0 The Printworks Showcase http://www.contestwatchers.com/the-printworks-showcase/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/the-printworks-showcase/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:57:06 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=824

This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Urban regeneration developer First Base has got together with Icon to launch a new competition inviting UK designers to create an interior design concept for the show apartment of a major new residential scheme launching in Summer 2010.

The winner of The Printworks Showcase will not only shape the interior space of the one-bed show apartment to be unveiled at the launch event later this year, but it will also feature in a forthcoming issue of Icon magazine. A special student prize will also be awarded to the best young design talent and the overall runner-up will also receive a prize.

Objective

Create an interior design concept for the show apartment of a major new residential scheme launching in Summer 2010.

Prizes

The competition will be judged by leading figures from the world of design plus shortlisted entries will be showcased on Iconeye and in a gallery on the competition website.

The winner of The Printworks Showcase will not only shape the interior space of the one-bed show apartment to be unveiled at the launch event later this year, but it will also feature in a forthcoming issue of Icon magazine. A special student prize will also be awarded to the best young design talent and the overall runner-up will also receive a prize.

The student prize winner will be profiled with their design in a feature in a forthcoming issue of Icon magazine and will win a unique internship opportunity with Universaldesignstudio.

Rules

  • Entry is open to all individual designers (aged 16 and above) or practices in the UK except employees of First Base or Icon and their families, agents and anyone associated with the Competition.
  • To qualify for the student prize, entrants must currently be in further or higher education studying at a school, college or university or have completed their course within the last 12 months. No designers working in a professional capacity will be eligible for the student prize.
  • All other entrants should submit their design for the overall professional prize.
  • The winners and runner up agree to take part in promotional activity and First Base reserves the right to use the names and addresses of winners, their photographs and audio and/or visual recordings of them in any publicity or press materials promoting the Competition.
  • Dates for the internship for the student prize winner may be restricted.
  • Prizes are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. First Base reserves the right to substitute prizes of equal of greater value at any time.
  • First Base reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition or the Rules at any time without prior notice.

How to enter?

Submit your entries through the entry form on the official website.

Student entrants are required to present a concept decoration design for the entire apartment. This should include:

  • A short summary (maximum 400 words) detailing the thinking and inspiration behind the design concept
  • A maximum x3 supporting (low res or web compatible) visuals in jpeg or PDF format (e.g. sketch, mood board etc)

The deadline for initial online entries is Wednesday 5 May 2010.

Once you have completed the online entry process you will receive an email to confirm that your details and files have been received and your entry has been processed.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

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This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

Urban regeneration developer First Base has got together with Icon to launch a new competition inviting UK designers to create an interior design concept for the show apartment of a major new residential scheme launching in Summer 2010.

The winner of The Printworks Showcase will not only shape the interior space of the one-bed show apartment to be unveiled at the launch event later this year, but it will also feature in a forthcoming issue of Icon magazine. A special student prize will also be awarded to the best young design talent and the overall runner-up will also receive a prize.

Objective

Create an interior design concept for the show apartment of a major new residential scheme launching in Summer 2010.

Prizes

The competition will be judged by leading figures from the world of design plus shortlisted entries will be showcased on Iconeye and in a gallery on the competition website.

The winner of The Printworks Showcase will not only shape the interior space of the one-bed show apartment to be unveiled at the launch event later this year, but it will also feature in a forthcoming issue of Icon magazine. A special student prize will also be awarded to the best young design talent and the overall runner-up will also receive a prize.

The student prize winner will be profiled with their design in a feature in a forthcoming issue of Icon magazine and will win a unique internship opportunity with Universaldesignstudio.

Rules

  • Entry is open to all individual designers (aged 16 and above) or practices in the UK except employees of First Base or Icon and their families, agents and anyone associated with the Competition.
  • To qualify for the student prize, entrants must currently be in further or higher education studying at a school, college or university or have completed their course within the last 12 months. No designers working in a professional capacity will be eligible for the student prize.
  • All other entrants should submit their design for the overall professional prize.
  • The winners and runner up agree to take part in promotional activity and First Base reserves the right to use the names and addresses of winners, their photographs and audio and/or visual recordings of them in any publicity or press materials promoting the Competition.
  • Dates for the internship for the student prize winner may be restricted.
  • Prizes are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. First Base reserves the right to substitute prizes of equal of greater value at any time.
  • First Base reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition or the Rules at any time without prior notice.

How to enter?

Submit your entries through the entry form on the official website.

Student entrants are required to present a concept decoration design for the entire apartment. This should include:

  • A short summary (maximum 400 words) detailing the thinking and inspiration behind the design concept
  • A maximum x3 supporting (low res or web compatible) visuals in jpeg or PDF format (e.g. sketch, mood board etc)

The deadline for initial online entries is Wednesday 5 May 2010.

Once you have completed the online entry process you will receive an email to confirm that your details and files have been received and your entry has been processed.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

Contest Watchers chooses the best international design contests and promotes them. If you need help with the promotion of your design contest, we'd love to help. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for even more international design contests.

]]> http://www.contestwatchers.com/the-printworks-showcase/feed/ 0 The Loft of the Future – 2nd International Design Competition http://www.contestwatchers.com/the-loft-of-the-future-2nd-international-design-competition/ http://www.contestwatchers.com/the-loft-of-the-future-2nd-international-design-competition/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:12:04 +0000 Contest Watchers http://www.contestwatchers.com/?p=788

This contest is now closed. More information about the final results will be published when they become available.

Note: Contest Watchers uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). All calculations are approximate and based on UTC.

2nd edition of an International Design Competition has just started. The competition is organised by FAKRO Company and Stadslab European Urban Laboratory, Fontys University (Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism) from Tillburg. 2nd edition of an International Design Competition is entitled The Loft of the Future.

Fakro and Stadslab you to take part in a new challenge and create the loft of the future. The future means no boundaries. Freedom in using the light, creativity in space planning and green solutions should guide you through the challenge.

Fakro and Stadslab are waiting for unconventional, innovative and fully creative & artistic renderings, where your ideas are to be merged with our products.

Objective

Design the loft of the future following the guidelines below:

  • minimum 5 proSky roof window type
  • use of light, space, green solutions
  • no architectural limits

Criteria of Evaluation

  • Creativity
  • The way of using FAKRO roof windows
  • The way of using aspects of: light, space, green solutions

Prizes

One award of €5,000 will be made and consists of a scholarship, worth €4,000, for participation in the Stadslab's Masterclasses Georgia (Autumn 2010) and a cheque for €1000.

Rules

  • This is an international design competition.
  • Each person with a workable knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written, holding Masters Degree in Architecture, Urban Design, City Planning, Landscape Architecture or European equivalent, can be the participant of the Competition.
  • The official language of the competition is English.
  • Each person who fulfils the conditions stipulated in the regulations and sends correctly completed documentation by the mentioned deadlines will be informed about this fact by the Organizing Committee by e-mail within 3 working days from the date of sending the application form.
  • Materials sent for the competition will not be sent back.

How to enter?

  1. Fill in the application form (all spaces in the form are mandatory and must be filled)
  2. Send the participant's resume (CV)
  3. Prepare the visualisation of the architectural concept using proSky roof window type and other FAKRO roof windows (possible formats are pdf, jpg or tif (300dpi, format min. A4), maximum size – up to 100 megabytes

Visualisation should be sent through the file hosting server. After you sent the visualisation on the server the link which will be generated should be copied and sent to idc [at] fakro.pl (please replace [at] with @).

Completed application form, the resume of a participant (CV) and visualization should be sent to idc [at] fakro.pl (please replace [at] with @).

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

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2nd edition of an International Design Competition has just started. The competition is organised by FAKRO Company and Stadslab European Urban Laboratory, Fontys University (Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism) from Tillburg. 2nd edition of an International Design Competition is entitled The Loft of the Future.

Fakro and Stadslab you to take part in a new challenge and create the loft of the future. The future means no boundaries. Freedom in using the light, creativity in space planning and green solutions should guide you through the challenge.

Fakro and Stadslab are waiting for unconventional, innovative and fully creative & artistic renderings, where your ideas are to be merged with our products.

Objective

Design the loft of the future following the guidelines below:

  • minimum 5 proSky roof window type
  • use of light, space, green solutions
  • no architectural limits

Criteria of Evaluation

  • Creativity
  • The way of using FAKRO roof windows
  • The way of using aspects of: light, space, green solutions

Prizes

One award of €5,000 will be made and consists of a scholarship, worth €4,000, for participation in the Stadslab's Masterclasses Georgia (Autumn 2010) and a cheque for €1000.

Rules

  • This is an international design competition.
  • Each person with a workable knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written, holding Masters Degree in Architecture, Urban Design, City Planning, Landscape Architecture or European equivalent, can be the participant of the Competition.
  • The official language of the competition is English.
  • Each person who fulfils the conditions stipulated in the regulations and sends correctly completed documentation by the mentioned deadlines will be informed about this fact by the Organizing Committee by e-mail within 3 working days from the date of sending the application form.
  • Materials sent for the competition will not be sent back.

How to enter?

  1. Fill in the application form (all spaces in the form are mandatory and must be filled)
  2. Send the participant's resume (CV)
  3. Prepare the visualisation of the architectural concept using proSky roof window type and other FAKRO roof windows (possible formats are pdf, jpg or tif (300dpi, format min. A4), maximum size – up to 100 megabytes

Visualisation should be sent through the file hosting server. After you sent the visualisation on the server the link which will be generated should be copied and sent to idc [at] fakro.pl (please replace [at] with @).

Completed application form, the resume of a participant (CV) and visualization should be sent to idc [at] fakro.pl (please replace [at] with @).

Entry fee

There is no entry fee for this contest.

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