Deadline: october 20, 2008
designboom in association with ALTEC LANSING and PLANTRONICS
are looking for new speakers and headset designs.
you are asked to submit your entry (entries) to the relevant category:
ALTEC LANSING – Future Sound Speakers
ALTEC LANSING created the first cinema speakers in the 1920’s and
have continued to innovate ever since; designing and manufacturing
award winning ipod and mp3 speaker systems, PC speakers,
home audio and headphones, blending art with science to stir the soul!
we are looking for speaker designs that unleash and enhance your digital music lifestyle!
entries should consider future styles / trends and usability.
PLANTRONICS – Stylish Sound Headsets
PLANTRONICS have recently launched a tech-cessory headset (D925)
that fuses technology and jewelry into a beautiful earpiece that looks
as good as it sounds. you are invited to take this theme further and
develop concept bluetooth headsets that are
fashion forward and desirable to wear.
the designers of 2winning entries will be granted with cash prize awards :
- Future Sound Speakers category winning prize USD 5000
- Stylish Sound Headsets category winning prize USD 5000
For more information, please refer to http://www.designboom.com/sound_innovation.html
Closing date: January 31, 2009
Theme: "Envision conscious design!"
This internationally recognised design competition is open to young industrial designers who are still studying or who have graduated within the last two years.
In the coming days, some thousands sets of competition documentation will be sent out to design schools, universities and design studios all over the world.
Current industrial design students as well as recent graduates have until January 31, 2009 to submit their product concepts to Braun (the participation is free of charge).
The total prize money amounts to EUR 36,000. The winner of the BraunPrize will receive EUR 12,000 in prize money and a (paid) six-month internship in the Design Department at Braun. The other finalists will each receive a prize of EUR 5,000. The remaining prize money will be distributed in the form of special recognition awards at the discretion of the jury.
Our ID student, Donn Koh's Leapfrog was selected as the grand winner of the 2007 competition and the information is as follows:
LeapFrog, winner
This product is a new type of walker for childrens uffering from cerebral polio or spina bifida.
‘LeapFrog’ encourages and supports children with impaired mobility to rise from a sedentary position, allows them to practice walking and attaining balance as well as allowing for short sedentary breaks. The adjustment between the various positions, (i.e. sitting, standing and walking) takes place in an automatic way and responds to the intention and movement of the child. In addition, ‘LeapFrog’ stops moving automatically when the child assumes a sedentary position. This feature prevents crashing and sliding when sitting and therefore prevents the child from acquiring erroneous movement patterns. The mechanism for the support when in a standing position can be set according to weight and therefore can be adjusted according to the child’s development.
‘LeapFrog’ not only supports the physical development, but also the independence and self-confidence of the child. It reinterprets a ‘painfully’ medical appearance with a product that appears to be caring and playful.
Finding of the Jury:
This design product is the result of thorough user research and offers a complex yet practical solution to different forms of physical disability. The jury was impressed by the product’s adaptability to different disabilities, the way it adjusts to an individual user’s unique challenges and its effectiveness as a form of physical therapy that motivates improvement and self-worth.
For more information about the competition, please refer to http://www.braunprize.com/international/braunprize_2.html
The Fourth Next-Gen PC Design Competition, orginised by Microsoft and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), throws down the gauntlet to budding industrial designers and seasoned professionals working in the field worldwide to apply their ingenuity, design prowess and creative flair and vision to the task of not merely give existing computing form factors a superficial makeover, but fundamentally rethinking the PC as we know it from the ground up.
This year’s competition issued an open call to entrants to dream up futuristic PC designs that give a new lease of life to people’s passions, such as travelling, music or photography. Contestants were challenged to come up with groundbreaking designs, not only featuring eye-catching aesthetics, but melding cutting-edge hardware with the latest software toward empowering people to follow their passions.
It certainly captured the imagination of the design community. The competition fielded 120 submissions from 32 countries that were as diverse as the passions they were aimed at empowering.
The winner's works are shown below:
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Napkin PC
1st Place Judges Award & Chairman’s Award Winner
Avery Holleman
The Napkin PC is a multi-user, multi-interface, modular computer designed for creative professionals to collaborate and bring their greatest ideas to life. |
WITHUS
2nd Place Judges
Taeho Wang, Minjoong Kim
WITHUS is the computer helping a preschool children shape the right values and human relationship by driving them into playing and learning with multi human interactions. Existing computer environment plays important and useful roles in various areas such as education, work, entertainment, and communication. However, it prevents direct interactions between two human or human and society. It is because current PCs are replacing the past human activities which need real contacts among people. It makes more difficult for young children to grow as an adult with right value and personality.
WITHUS solves the above problems of current PC environment. A kid as a user is attracted to enjoy more various and interesting contents with their friends by physically connecting his/hers with friends’ WITHUSes. Various firsthand experiences and collaborative activities through WITHUS promote the kids to grow as a social being by learning cooperation and compromise.
Backpacker's Diary 3rd Place Judges Award & Public’s Choice Award Winner
Zhongren Zhang, Chun Yang
Backpacker's diary is a PC concept that integrate with the form of traditional book, the target user is the enthusiastic travelling fans. In this "book", different pages include different functions, like media recording, solar recharging and EL illuminant. The approach of reading a book takes the traditional way of operating computer, which encourage those backpackers to experience and share more about their trips.
Two students' works from our school (Industrial Design programme, National Univeristy of Singapore) were selected as the Finalists:
conceito Finalist
huang xiaonan, Brian Lau
Digital painting PC for artists that allows:
1. flexible LCD screen can be carried around in the outdoors, and its translucency facilitates artiest to look through the screen to paint the sceneries.
2. digital pen interacts with LCD screen and the base. it has color sensing mechanism, gather color from real objects.
3. base is LED touch screen, showing color palette, and the pen can obtain color from the digital color palette.
4. the screen is scrolled up, and fixed to the supporting stand by using pen as the lock
INFO Live Finalist
Brian Law Chuan Chai, Huang Xiao Nan
INFO Live is an data organizer for connected internet world. It is able to transfer data information to any hardware and person any moment in time of need. In addition, it has a powerful information update system that alerts user of incoming information, e.g. email, documents, photos , video & etc in terms of ionic representation.
Deadline: 10 Aug 2008
Hi! The Cycling & Health Tech Industry R&D Center is organizing the 13th International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC) and invites entries. There is no entry fee! You may read about it on http://design.runride.com and register through this web page from May 1 to August 10 2008. After registration you have until August 10 2008 to submit your work (4 electronic files in jpg format) via email for the First Round. Twenty-one finalists will be selected and notified by September 15, 2008. These twenty one submit their final work (a small-scale model) by December 20, 2008. Final results will be announced on March 17, 2009, the first day of the 2009 Taipei International Cycle Show. The Grand Prize NT$500,000 as well as high honorary is waiting for you!
Below are the last year winners:
2007 Grand Prize -- SUNNY DAY
2007 Second Prize -- SVEPA
2007 Third Prize -- EVERGLIDE
For more information, please visit http://design.runride.com/