The Workplace Safety and Health Council in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower have recently launched the “Safety Starts With Me” competition to spread the awareness of workplace safety and health issues to everyone through creative expression in various art forms and to promote the ‘Safety Starts With Me’ theme.
There are five categories of participation:
PHOTO – Capture safety in action.
POSTER – Draw out risks.
STORY – Pen out safety.
3D MODEL – Build safety your way.
VIDEO/SHORT FILM – Direct safe work.
Win cash prizes of up to $5000. Winning entries will be showcased at the National WSH Campaign in April – July 2009. The competition ends on 23 March 2009. For details, please visit the website at www.wshc.gov.sg/safetystartswithme
You are encouraged to send in your entries via OSHE for consolidation of submissions by NUS. Entries should reach OSHE by 13 March 2009. Please send your entries to:
Ms Yvonne Teng,
Office of Safety, Health & Environment
oshtengy@nus.edu.sg, ext 5966
The world of materials is developing swiftly and becoming increasingly complex. Designers have known for a long time that the success of a product and its design also depends on the right choice of materials. Pioneering materials can provide functional, aesthetic and production-related impulses. At the same time, engineers and developers are inspired by design requirements to develop new materials and technologies.
To highlight this interrelation, to demonstrate the importance of materials for industrial design-oriented applications and to establish a platform for designers, material manufacturers, developers, engineers and producers for a get-together, MunichExpo has been organizing the MATERIALICA Design + Technology Award for six years. The main focal point of this award is on aerospace, automotive, engineering, sports and technical consumer goods.
Categories and evaluation criteria – Student Award
Categories
Material Category
In this category newly developed or already existing materials can be submitted. In demand are pure materials, for which no applications must have been found.. Also technical materials that are bound to serial production are suitable. A material sample with information on the most important material properties is required. for the jury meeting.
Product Category
This category is for products from all sectors of the economy that are already in production and in which new or familiar materials and material properties are innovatively applied (conductive, luminous, energy-storing, material-saving etc.) Original products or prototypes and scale models are required for the jury session; an accompanying material sample is desirable.
Surface & Technology Category
This category is dedicated to new production processes and novel surfaces. For the jury meeting, contestants need to submit a description of the production process or surface, supported by a material or product sample. An example of use is desirable.
CO2 Efficiency Category
In this category materials, products, surfaces, technologies or processes can be submitted, that are demonstrably reducing CO2 emissions. This may occur e.g. by savings in material components, lower energy costs in manufacturing or processing. But also raw material conservation, recycling or the reduction of manufacturing steps contribute to relive the environment.
Evaluation criteria
These criteria apply to all categories:
- Design quality
- Level of innovation
- Visualisation of use
- Orientation on target group
- Depth of elaboration
- Choice of material
- Environmental compatibility
- Usability
- Functionality
- Ergonomics
The deadline for Round 7 is February 1, 2009 and winners will be announced on March 1, 2009.
Discover your creativity
HUGO Create is a new design contest, a celebration of visual creativity open to creative people of all skill levels. Professionals, students or design-enthusiasts: this is your opportunity to show the world your ideas and skills. So fire up your creative minds and start to brainstorm, draw, scan, create a digital collage, vectorize…
Use your imagination and intuition to amaze us with your designs.
It’s up to you and your skills to see if you can get your work published in an iconic urban magazine, or even potentially used worldwide as part of a HUGO Fragrances advertising campaign!
We look forward to receiving your designs featuring the iconic HUGO Man bottle and an individual interpretation of the HUGO brand universe, according to the given theme.
Designers are invited to develop product concepts for one or all of the following three target demographics:
Kiddies 0-5 year-olds
Juniors 6-12 year-olds
Big Kids & Adults
Product concepts can consist of any inflatable form with any play value that are acceptable for the company’s markets and can be industrially produced.
Airbus is launching an international competition “Fly Your Ideas” for student teams worldwide to come up with innovative ideas to shape the future of aviation and help to enhance the sector’s eco-efficiency. The objective: creating more value with less impact on the environment.
The competition is open to college and university students from around the world, studying a degree, Masters or PhD in any academic discipline, from engineering to marketing, business to science and philosophy to design. The proposals can look at a wide range of topics including new materials, products and/or processes as well as aircraft performance, manufacturing and organisational and operational performance.
A top prize of €30,000 is offered to the team whose idea demonstrates the greatest potential for improvement. The teams will advance through different competitive and challenging rounds, concluding with a live final at the Le Bourget Airshow in June 2009.
Portugal started rolling out the “Magellan” computer designed by INTEL (classmate PC) at schools last month. It aims to hand out a total 500,000 of the laptops, which cost just 50 euros ($69.29) for school children, at home and export it to countries in Latin America and Africa. Microsoft also launched a software package for this Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country’s technological edge in education. The “Magellan”
The new classmate PC design has a number of new unique features, while maintaining the youth-friendly elements of light weight, ruggedization, water-resistant keyboard, and ergonomic design with carrying handle. These added new features are meant to enable new usage models.
Tablet Mode: More flexibility to get more comfortable, move around, Increased mobility for anywhere usage, Simple UI shell and launcher for tablet mode
Touch Screen User Input: Allows writing and drawing, Supports resting your hand on the screen (palm rejection), Enables enhanced classroom interaction and collaboration
International Design Show 2009 invites independent designers and studios to submit creative concepts not currently in production for furniture, lighting, textiles, products and accessories to the Prototype Competition / Exhibition.
Successful Prototype participants will be promoted in an exhibit display in the centre of Studio North during the Interior Design Show at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto, February 5-8, 2009.
Selected participants will be listed in the IDS show guide and website and promoted to Canadian and international media.
Make history.
Design the logo for the first Youth Olympic Games. Singapore will host the Youth Olympic Games in 2010 and some 3,500 youth athletes from all over the world will arrive on our shores to compete in the spirit of Excellence, Friendship, and Respect.
The competition is inviting everyone to submit a design for the Singapore 2010 logo! This competition is open to anyone, regardless of nationality or design experience. So don’t hesitate, have your say in the logo for the first Youth Olympic Games!
NUS ID grdaute, Hans Tan’s work titled “Placemat Paperback” will debut at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice, exhibited as part of the exhibition SINGLETOWN by Droog and KesselsKramer.
It will take place in the traditional venues of the Arsenale and the Italia Pavilion. With a preview on September 11th, 12th and 13th, the 11th edition of the International Architecture Biennale will take place from September 14th 2008 until November 23rd 2008. For more information about the exhibition, please visit http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/
Placemat Paperback, 2007: paper, binding, Against the Grain
{this piece of work will debut at the 11th Architectural Biennale Venice, for the exhibition SINGLETOWN developed by Droog and KesselsKramer from 14 September to 23 November 2008.}
For Hans’ works, please visit:http://www.hanstan.net/index.htm
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