Hunn Wai, a NUS ID graduate,  will present a dining chair from the Tre di Una family of chairs and the WOOD X PLASTIC shelf at Design-e-space design/art gallery during the Architecture Biennale in Venice this year.
 

If you or your friends are in the area, do drop by and have a vino by the canals with Hunn and his design pieces! He will be contactable by info@hunnwai.com or the telephone numbers listed on the design-e-space website.  You can find Hunn’s work at http://www.hunnwai.com/ 

Deadline: 1 Oct 2008

Keeseh Studio invites students and design enthusiasts to celebrate the pursuit of ecodesign through an international competition to utilize waste material.

The goal of the competition is to promote upcycling by encouraging the use of wasted materials to generate innovative designs and redefine the standards of environmental sustainability by fostering balance between conservation and development. This competition will provide a stepping stone to help educate viewers of the vast opportunities and future development of environmentally friendly processes, materials, and products.

For detailed information, please visit http://makesomegreen.otherpeoplespixels.com/home.html

Deadline: September 15th 2008

Call for entries – the imm cologne’s young designers competition is now open!

During the forthcoming imm cologne 2009 the 6th edition of [d³]contest will be on show in Cologne from January 19th to 25th 2009. The competition is open to students and graduates (graduation exams passed not longer than three years ago) from the fields of product design, industrial design or interior architecture and allows all interior products like furniture, lighting, textiles, carpets or wallpapers at the status of prototypes at the time of the fair or in preparation for serial production. In the 2008 competition 31 products have been chosen from 534 entries of which the best three products have been awarded by an internationally well-known jury of interior experts with the interior innovation award of imm cologne and have been rewarded with price money of 1000€, 2000€ and 3000€.

All entries have to be submitted by September 15th 2008 (date of postmark) to the German Design Council which is organising the competition on behalf of imm cologne. For more information, please visit http://d3talents.en.koelnmesse.info/the_fair/index.php

Below is the first prize of 2007

1st Prize [d³] contest, Raphael von Allmen (ECAL) – Chair

Indoor chair in polypropylene and aluminium. A “cnc-cut” PP foil is counterfolded and bolted on a rigid aluminium structure so as to form the back of the chair. The seat, also in aluminium, is screwed on the structure and gives its final tension to the plastic. For more information about this product, please refer to http://www.raphaelvonallmen.com/plasticback.htm

3rd International Roca Design Contest 2008-2009 “Jump the gap”, on the search of conceptually innovative products within the bathroom area.

Jump the gap, design today while focussing on tomorrow.

The contest will be addessed to product or interior designers and architects, as well as product design, interior and architecture students.

Participants must be under 35. This 3rd edition will be open worldwide and allow online registration and submission of projects through this website.

The winning project will receive a prize valued in 5.000 euros and will be presented by Roca during the “100% Design London” in 2009.

This 3rd Edition is open worldwide and allows online registration and submission of projects through the website http://www.jumpthegap.net/, that will be available from September, when the Water Drop project will be launched in the frame of the “100% Design London”. Water Drop is a unique space that pays homage to water, created by the prestigious designer Hector Serrano in collaboration with Roca.

Deadline for registration is December 2008 and for on-line project submission mid March 2009.