COMPETITIONS

The Kokuyo Design Awards opens its 8th year as the competition that seeks to commercialize outstanding product designs presented from designers and users worldwide. In the 2008 competition we received 1240 submissions (970 from Japan, 270 from overseas) and the competition continues to expand as an international award in product design. Also last year we [...]

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The sixth edition of the Marksman Design Award (2007 – 2008) challenged young design students to ‘Design the perfect pen’. In this digital age, where the keyboard dominates our working lives, it’s encouraging that writing implements remain the most popular business gifts. The competition attracted 386 entries from 264 colleges and universities in 54 countries, [...]

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The Good Design Awards is a comprehensive program for the evaluation and encouragement of design organized by Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO). The award’s parent organization is the Good Design Products Selection System (commonly known as the G Mark system), established in 1957 by the then Ministry of International Trade and Industry (the current [...]

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Since their introduction in the year 1953, the iF design awards have been a reliable indicator of outstanding quality in design. The iF logo, awarded by international experts, is trusted the world over and denotes proven design quality. Companies and design studios use it as a visible symbol in their communication. For potential clients, the [...]

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THE 2010 COMPETITION Brief: The 2nd Space Age Electrolux Design Lab 2010 invites global undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces. Your ideas will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050 when 74%* of the world’s population [...]

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The red dot design award enters a new round – and with it several thousand applicants for the sought-after quality seal, the “red dot”. They all show courage by facing the international competition and investing: in design, quality, and innovation, despite the economically uncertain times. However, it is exactly this courage that will pay off [...]

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The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to inspire young people about design engineering. The Brief Put simply; design something that solves a problem. For full [...]

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In recent years, Sustainable Design has moved past its pop-culture status to form a key requirement of any good design process. Sustainable Designs allow us to live, work and play in such a way that is more efficient, profitable, secure and pleasurable but most importantly a way that does not compromise our future. Now as [...]

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Competition Title: Cormack Innovation Award Competition Description The Cormack Innovation Award is regarded as one of the most practical industrial design awards in Australia. The competition criteria and judging is done by senior industry representatives working in FMCG, beverage, chemical cleaning and pharmaceutical companies, the same people that one day will be commissioning designs from [...]

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