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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, ...

Registration:April 1, 2008 - June 30, 2008Submission 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 ...

The Greener Gadgets Design Competition took place during the month of February, 2008, as part of the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City. Core77 challenged the global design community to design a ''greener gadget''; to create innovative solutions addressing the issues of energy, carbon footprint, health and toxicity, new materials, product ...

 There were 4843 creative individuals and institutions from 98 countries participated in this competition which is orginised by designboom and 'MACEF international. The ex equo first prizes are as follows: name of design : leaf-shaped spoondesign by : Shuhei Senda from japanleaf-shaped spoon 1designer's own words:This spoon makes ...

Congruation. Donn Koh and his thesis work ''Leapfrog'' has won the red dot award: design concept 2007 which is considered as one of the top design competitions around the world. Leapfrog is also the winner of Braunprize 2007. For detailed information of LeapFrog, please visit red dot website: ...

Congruation to our NUS ID recent graduate Mr. Terence Woon whose thesis work 'Glide''  has won the red dot awards: design concept 2007.  There were 884 submissions from 46 countries this year and 105 distinguished works honoured with red dot award.   The red dot is the quality label for outstanding design. All design concepts ...

Congruation to our NUS ID alumnus Mr. Wong Kok Keong (AY05/06) whose work has won the Judges' Prize of Muji Award 02 this year.   The Competition attracted 3422 entries from 47 countries in the world this year. There was only one Gold Prize ,no Silver Prize, and only three entries were selected by all the judges for ...

Our industrial design program's alumna Mr. Joe Tan (AY04/05) has won the Gold Prize in the Opus Design Award 2007 which is considered one of the top eyeware design competitions around the world. The Competition attracted 756 works from 54 countries in the world this year. Below is his winning design work: blue is inspired by the ...

The 16th International BraunPrize, one of the most coveted prizes for young designers, has been awarded to Donn Koh from Singapore for his project “LeapFrog”, an innovative walking aid for children with impaired mobility.   Mr. Donn Koh, a recent National University of Singapore (NUS) Industrial Design graduate and NUS Design Incubation ...

2 NUS ID graduates, Terence Woon and Yap Hock Heng, were in the final of LighTouch Design Competition.  The grand winner of this year LighTouch Competition Ms Caitlyn Sara MacKenzie is from New Zealand, and her winning work entitled ''1296'' is created with 1296 incised cuts within a two-dimensional plane creating an organic form, ...