Tag: Design Competitions - Page 7
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Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)
Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas,
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"Rolling Master Plan" Is Coolest Prize Winner in Competition
It is often the case that the most interesting and innovative entry in a competition comes in second or third, while the more practical and realistic entry wins. That appears to have happened in a recent competition
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Tate's Christmas Tree Bares All
It's been a tough year and many holiday celebrations this year are being kept simple. For example, the Tate Britain Art Gallery. It has a long tradition of commissioning famous artists to decorate the Christmas tree in its
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Wildlife Crossing Competition Finalists Propose Amazing Bridges
Olin Studio ARC Competition; PDF here Designboom reminds us of the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition, , to promote "innovation in feasible, buildable context-sensitive and compelling design solutions for safe,
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Call for Ideas: Unreasonable Institute Seeking Applicants Who Can Save the Planet
The Unreasonable Institute is actually totally reasonable: they're looking for people with great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. No big deal, huh? If this description
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100K House From Postgreen Wins LEED Project of the Year
I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house. Evidently neither could the US Green
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And One Of The Biggest Influences On A Generation Of Designers is: TRON
After they graciously promoted LifeEdited, we learned from DesignSpotter that the Disney movie TRON "influenced whole generations of later-on designers, architects, technicians and developers worldwide." So they are having their own competition.
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Bold Earrings Win Vuvuzela Recycling Contest
It faced tough competition from concepts for Christmas trees, toilet-paper holders, and lamps, but Megan Bernstein's design for big, colorful earrings beat them all out, becoming the winner of WoZela's vuvuzela
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So Much Exciting Stuff In the LifeEdited Competition
credit: ethanvonfakename TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can help: Enter the design
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When It Comes To Buildings, Who Is America's Biggest Loser?
The EPA writes about its Working off the Waste with EnergyStar Competition:
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Bjarke Ingels of BIG Wins European Prize For Architecture
Fast Company Fast Company nailed Bjarke Ingels with a graphic novelette earlier this year, capturing the intensity and fun that the 38 year old wonder is having. He's just won the European Prize for Architecture,which interestingly, is an American prize
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Vuvuzela Recycling Competition Gives New Life to South Africa's Favorite Noisemakers
For better or worse, they provided the soundtrack to the World Cup 2010 matches in South Africa, generating
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Dyson International Prizes: Are They Solutions In Search Of A Problem?
The Dyson Award is "an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers."
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Recycled Milk Crates Transformed Into Living Pavilion: Behin + Ha
More crate-crazed creativity than you can shake a stick at -- this time, in the shape of a curvaceous, wave-form pavilion made from an assemblage of recycled white milk crates. But that's not all -- the crates aren't just stand-alone components, they
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Designers Rise to Meet the Earth Award's Aspirational Challenge
From photosynthetic foam to sustainable shells, Kuala Lumpur-inspired sunglasses to butterfly houses, the 2010 Earth Awards honored the most innovative ideas for building a new economy. Setting an aspiration challenge—really more of a
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Bagbike Has Clever Carrier For Urban Cycling
Designboom has been spoonfeeding out the short list in the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 over the last few weeks. Some have been idiosyncratic and odd, but others, like this Bagbike from Francois Bernard, Sonja Breuninger and Marion Pinaffo makes
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Sukkah City: Competition Winners Being Built In New York
A sukkah is "an ephemeral, elemental shelter, erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice." A Sukkah City of 12 finalists are being built in New York
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Xylophone Bridge: Seoul's Interactive Music-Making Bike Path
From recycled dividers to DIY 'contrails' and contraflow bike lanes, the bike path is something that is constantly evolving. In collaboration with the Seoul Design Foundation, this year's Seoul Cycle Design Competition offers a Pavlovian take of
