Electrolux Design Lab 2010 invites global undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces. Your ideas will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050 when 75% of the world’s population are predicted to live in an urban environment. Growing populations living in concentrated areas dictate a need for greater space efficiency. This year, special consideration will be given to designers that submit a design within the context of a range or suite of solutions/appliances. Your design ideas should address key consumer requirements; being green, adaptive to time and space, and allowing for individualization. IntroductionEstablished in 2003, Electrolux Design Lab is an annual global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who are invited to present innovative ideas for household appliances of the future.

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The Lumec “Fondation Concept Lumière Urbaine” (CLU) aims to encourage emerging designers to develop innovative lighting concepts within the context of an exterior public space. Since 2004, Philips Lumec’s “Concept Lumière Urbaine” (CLU) strives for excellence by enhancing the conscientious integration of product plastic quality, technological advancement in outdoor lighting and respect of the environment. The CLU Foundation is open to all students and young professionals with up to 5 years experience and operating in industrial design, urban planning, environmental design, engineering, architecture and landscape architecture.The grants will be awarded based on merit by the Lumec CLU committee. This committee is composed of engaged professionals from within the Quebec community of creators and designers and aims social harmony by the quality of the built environment. Laureates will be selected from all received applications. ObjectiveDesign an object that qualifies as a street furniture while retaining its primary purpose, lighting.

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Your agency has been selected to propose a new Website design for Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), a national nonprofit dedicated to helping all youth reach their full potential. Designing an engaging Website to attract and retain donors, media and parents and caregivers is vital for BGCA to generate awareness, raise funds online and fulfill its mission to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.BGCA’s current Website, www.bgca.org, has not been significantly updated from either a design or technology perspective in a long time, and does not take advantage of updated technology and strategies for engaging its audiences. As Microsoft provides a powerful set of tools and technologies, bgca.org should incorporate those into its main site to meet the needs of its users. Whether referring to mobile media, social networking or interactive features, bgca.org falls short. And an abundance of Microsoft technologies can be utilized to bring bgca.org into a new decade of Web 2.0 significance. IntroductionFor more than 100 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America has helped kids “BE GREAT,” providing hope and opportunity for those who need it most. Today, more than 4,300 Clubs serve some 4.5 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Boys & Girls Clubs can be found throughout the country and on U.S. military bases worldwide, providing young people 6 to 18 years old with guidance-oriented character development programs conducted by trained, professional staff. Clubs positively impact lives and help young people reach their full potential as productive, caring citizens. Key programs emphasize leadership development; education and career exploration; community service; technology training; financial literacy; health and life skills; the arts; sports, fitness and recreation; and family outreach. In a recent Harris Survey of Club alumni, 57 percent said the Club saved their lives. National headquarters are located in Atlanta.

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