Tag: Design Competitions
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Award-Winning Lamp Eliminates Need for Direct Sunlight
The "Daylight" lamp won a Red Dot Design award for the way it amplifies ambient light.
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40 Designs Made from 1 Storm-Felled Tree Debut in Chicago
A storm-felled tree in Chicago produced material for students in a design course to make more than 40 products.
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400 Foot Long Badboot Floating Pool in Antwerp Is A Flash From The Past
Rem Koolhaas once described a floating pool designed by Russian Constructivists. Is it finally being built?
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Promising New Passive House Designs for Bulgaria
Passive-house design seems tailor-made for helping bring Bulgarian living standards up to those of their EU counterparts with little to no increase in energy consumption.
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2012 AIA COTE Awards Announced
The big green building awards are out, and as usual, they are a mixed bag of goodies.
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Prize-Winning "Urban Micro-Garden" Is a Modular Trellis
"Ariane" is a modular wall planter that makes vertical gardening quick and simple.
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Turkish Designer Creates Knitted Furniture That's Easy to Move
These quirky pieces of furniture are fashion plus furniture.
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Old Stuffed Animals are Made into New-ish Ones
Teddy bear alert: Atelier Volvix is looking for old stuffed animals to make into new.
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2012 Evolo Skyscraper Award Winners Announced
As always, it is the runners-up that are the most interesting.
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EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashion Designers to Face Local Problems
The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.
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The Design Award-Winning Mu Plug is Sleek and Collapsible
From being the winner of the 2010 Design Award, the Mu has finally hit the shops.
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The Week in Pictures: Tesla's Model X CUV, a Tower of Books, and More
Tesla unveiled the Model X CUV, which seats seven and has gull wing doors. Washington, DC got a 34 foot tower of books, we look at the nominees for "design of the year," and more.
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8 of the Most Intriguing Nominees for London's Design Museum "Design of the Year" Prize
From a vacuum cleaner the size of a soccer ball to the most fashionable bike helmet ever, this year's selections cover a mish-mash of categories.
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Student-Run Competition Redesigns a Public Space in 120 Hours
A student run competition gave entrants 120 hours to create a design for a residential space in a dense urban setting.
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Lamp Made From Jam Jars Wins Design Prize in Sweden
The future of recycling never looked so bright.
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Polkatoikea Is a Brilliant Mashup Of Le Corbusier, Mobile Homes, Kurokawa And IKEA
An urban multistorey trailer park may be the answer to affordable housing.
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Steven Chu Announces 2013 Solar Decathlon and Its New Location, California!
Today in Albuquerque, NM, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the 20 collegiate teams selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013. And he unveiled the competition's location, California!
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Wind-Powered Land Mine Clearing Device is Nominee for London Design Museum's "Designs of the Year" Awards
Nominees also include Kate Middleton's wedding dress, The Guardian's iPad edition, the T27 Electric Car, and more.
