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Sound Innovation

AKIYC — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:48:00 GMT

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

Annoucement of Branuprize 2009

AKIYC — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:53:00 GMT

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

Results of 4th NextGen PC Design Competition

AKIYC — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:20:00 GMT

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:

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.

For more information, please refer to http://www.nextgendesigncomp.com/Default.aspx

13th International Bicycle Design Competi

AKIYC — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:50:00 GMT

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/

2008 Taipei Industrial Design Award

AKIYC — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:29:00 GMT

Deadline: Sep 23 2008

Theme: AMENITY

for more information, please visit

http://s2.boco.com.tw/TdcActive/DesignCompetition/describe.aspx?actno=TDC032008030

Dr Martens Shoe Design

AKIYC — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:42:00 GMT

Brief: Create a design for our next boots

This is your chance to show the world your talent. Choose your canvas: the 8-hole or the 14-hole boot. Use pens, use paint, use whatever. Use your imagination. We’ve provided some tools here. Or if you want, you can use your own. This time we’ll have two winners. One voted for by the people. The other chosen by a panel of industry insiders. You enter it. We’ll make them. You’ll see them in shops. Worldwide. Please visit http://www.dmbootdesign.com/

Muji Award 03

AKIYC — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:36:00 GMT

Deadline: 31 of July 2008

MUJI is pleased to announce the launch of its third MUJI AWARD International Design Competition. Its theme this time is "Found MUJI". Since it was established in Japan 28 years ago, MUJI has maintained its approach of observing and thinking about everyday life. THis involves taking a view of the world, learning from the wisdom of predecessors, discovering the benefits of something that has been used for a long period of time and translating these ideas into the design of products that are consistent with our current lifestyle. Taking on this approach what can you create, when considering the life, culture and tradition of a particular region of the world, giving it a MUJI viewpoint, while at the same time respecting its origins? MUJI is hoping to receive timeless and convincing designs from around the world.

For more information, please visit: http://www.muji.net/award/index.html#en

SKUUMA Soft Surface Design Competition 2008

AKIYC — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:09:00 GMT

The SKUUMA design competition invites you to show the world your concept for an original new piece of design, with the components foam (polyurethane) and special coating. From functional to funky, it’s the uniqueness of your vision that really counts in this global competition.

The 5 winners will have their designs manufactured and added to the SKUUMA home and office collection, which will be shown on special locations around the world. The winners will be announced at the Dutch Design Week 2008, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in the SKUUMA exhibition stand. We hope you will be a winner and join us there.

The link to the competition website: www.skuuma.com

KOKUYO Design Award 2008

AKIYC — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:53:00 GMT

Kokuyo Co., Ltd. announced the Kokuyo Design Award 2008 design competition, and is encouraging all those wishing to participate to submit their user-oriented product designs.

The goal of the competition is to develop excellent ideas into commercial products.

Applications are accepted from April 1 to June 30, 2008.

The theme of this competition is carbon―a building block of life. This does not mean we are looking solely for charcoal designs. All materials containing carbon―such as paper, cloth, various plastic products, wood, and gas or gasoline―are acceptable. Please try designing a lifestyle that incorporate carbon, thinking about where the carbon came from and where it will go after use.

For more information, please visit http://www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/award2008/j/index.html

OPUS DESIGN AWARD 2008

AKIYC — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:04:00 GMT

Registration:
April 1, 2008 - June 30, 2008

Submission of Entries:
June 1, 2008 - July 31, 2008

"Expression of Time”

Eyewear design is a segment of contemporary expressions. Just as architecture, interior and fashion designs illustrate era, eyewear embraces various factors of trend in fashion, philosophy, and lifestyle of the time. “Deliberating today through the subject of eyewear” is comparable to searching significance in design.

For more information, please visit http://www.opus-award.com/en/index.html

Last year award went to NUS ID's alumna Mr. Joe Tan (AY04/05) and his work "blur" which is inspired by the photoshop "blur" tool often used to erase wrinkles in photos.