James Dyson Award, the annual student product design award, is still accepting entries for 2011. The challenge is to design something useful. The James Dyson Award is an international student design award running in 18 countries. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to encourage the next generation of design engineers to be creative, challenge and invent. The Award supports students not only with monetary prizes but also by promoting and recognizing good quality entries.

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The Aftermath Project will provide a $20,000 grant for one conflict photographer and a special $5,000 honorarium for a fixer or translator, who has worked with a conflict photographer, and who wants to tell a story (written or visual) about their own aftermath experience. This is a very open and fluid call for proposals on this subject, and the Aftermath Project welcomes any and all approaches. The Aftermath Project is very interested in supporting a dialogue about this kind of aftermath – both for the photographer who wins the grant, and for the broader audience who we hope will engage with the work when the grant winner’s year is finished.

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