Project 2009: Lakefront Station challenges entrants to propose designs for a Multi-Modal Transportation Center in Downtown Cleveland at the north end of the historic Mall. This new transportation center will provide the city with a state-of-the-art rail station ready to support high speed passenger rail service, a facility capable of integrating and balancing the needs of various transportation modes, and a pedestrian connector from the Mall to Cleveland’s lakefront. The current site configuration creates a confusing juxtaposition of infrastructure, smaller transit facilities, rail lines, and largely un-useable residual land. Solutions for a new multi-modal transit facility must evaluate the relationships between infrastructure, facility, adjacent development opportunity, and pedestrian wayfinding to develop uniquely integrated design and planning strategies.The site provides a number of sectional issues and opportunities in exploring how this new Multi-Modal Transportation Center will redefine and enhance the connection from Downtown to North Coast Harbor and Lake Erie. Successful solutions must provide the city with a connection to Cleveland’s history as an important rail hub and prepare the city for the next evolution of transportation. Linked into a High Speed Passenger Rail network, Downtown Cleveland would be an important national rail center among a network of connected American cities, a fitting gateway to the City of Cleveland. ObjectivePropose designs for a Multi-Modal Transportation Center in Downtown Cleveland at the north end of the historic Mall. PrizesFirst Place – $5,000.00 USDSecond Place – $2,000.00 USDThird Place – $1,000.00 USDPrize winners and any additional projects deemed deserving of recognition by the jury will be a part of a public exhibition after the conclusion of the competition. Please refer to the “Timeline” section of the competition webpage for the date of public exhibition.

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Established in 2007, TheDieline.com is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and to provide a place where the package design community can review, critique, be inspired and stay informed of the latest industry trends, news and projects being created in the field. The Dieline has quickly grown into the most visited website on package design in the world, and it has become the voice of the industry. It is used as a daily resource for hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Our first book, Box Bottle Bag: The World’s Best Packaging Design, will be published in February by HOW Books.As The Dieline continues to find and define the world’s best packaging, it has launched The Dieline Awards, an international design competition recognizing best in package design, further promoting the progress of package design industry. ObjectiveSubmit your package designs in some of these categories:

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The goal of EcoTopia is to encourage the development of products that foster a healthy ecosystem and a sustainable society. Submissions should focus on one of the following areas: Transportation, Clothing/Footwear, Farming/Food, Household Appliances, and Shelter. Twenty entries will be chosen to appear in the show and will be included in a press release to be widely distributed by Nectar Design with the goal of being featured in industry and general audience publications. ObjectiveSubmit your designs of products that foster a healthy ecosystem and a sustainable society. All media will be considered, including: 2D presentations,video,prototypes,scale models,and mock-ups.PrizesTwenty entries will be chosen to appear in the show and will be included in a press release to be widely distributed by Nectar Design with the goal of being featured in industry and general audience publications.

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