Deadline: 29 Aug 2008

The Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC) is calling for entries for the much anticipated Furniture Design Award (FDA) 2009 and registration is now open.

This year, participants in the Students and Young Designers categories are given free reign with their furniture creations as there will not be any given theme, unlike in previous years. 

For more information, please refer to http://www.singaporefurniture.com/design/home.html

Deadline: 5 Sep, 2008

Theme: Earth Life JDF has selected the theme “Earth Life.” They welcome diverse unique proposals on products, systems, business models, etc., that will prompt us to contemplate how we should pass on to the next generation the Earth-beautiful, irreplaceable, living planet, the birthplace and foundation of human livelihood-and how to tackle, in our everyday lives, the environmental stresses facing us today and ensure a more sustainable, affluent and comfortable lifestyle.

Sub-theme:

Clean AQUA
Look forward to proposals for water-related systems, daily products and unique lifestyles, which promote the purification and saving of water, the optimization of water quality and water circulation, and waterfront environments.
Clean AIR
Expect to receive proposals for air-related systems, daily products and lifestyles, which facilitate a shift to social structure and production activities that do not emit greenhouse gases and enable us to enjoy a living environment blessed with fresh and clean air.
Clean Energy
Seek proposals for energy-related systems, daily products and lifestyles that promote a shift to an eco-friendly social structure and production activities characterized by resource and energy saving, exhaust heat control, recycling, substitution or conversion and change of consumer consciousness, and that materialize an environmentally friendly lifestyle, while maintaining the convenience and comfort of modern life we have so far enjoyed.

For more information, please refer to http://www.jdf.or.jp/earth/en/index.html