PDP convention and EXIT are opening a design competition for the EXIT t-shirts. PDP convention is of international character and is open to all students, professionals and amateurs. The first 3 places will earn respective certificates.

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PDP Convention and EXIT are opening a competition for best concert photograph. PDP convention is of international character and is open to all students, professionals and amateurs. Submit your photos of small music events, concerts and festivals. The winner of this competition gets EXIT 2010 photo accreditation.

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The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design proposes DINGBAT 2.0, an open, single-stage, international design competition, reconsidering Los Angeles’ ubiquitous dingbat apartment building for the 21st century. All designers, architects, artists, engineers, students, and other interested parties are fully eligible for participation in this competition. This is an ideas competition that calls for the consideration of two design issues regarding the Dingbat and it’s impact on the urban fabric of Los Angeles. IntroductionThe Dingbat grew out of Los Angeles’ rapid postwar expansion period and defined a pervasive vernacular that still weaves through the space of the city’s neighborhoods and the decades of their development. For more than half a century, this idiosyncratic typology has been vilified, praised, studied, and often misunderstood – as much for being ugly and ordinary as for being innovative, iconoclastic, and distinctly “L.A.” As a housing type, the Dingbat has aided the sprawl for which L.A. is infamous while simultaneously creating a consistency of urban density achieved by few other cities.

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