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CLUE is a competition for students and professionals, that encourages the next generation in the industry to develop ground breaking lighting concepts.The competition, titled "Light & Disruption: Exploring the role of light in emergencies", will explore how light can help to prevent challenging situations and crisis or manage emergencies when they occur. In testing circumstances, […]
The network of Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes announces the open call for Together Alone – an international art project to document the state of emergency. Through the open call the Institutes are looking for projects that address the themes of state of emergency, radical change, resilience, artistic practice in the future, and alone together. […]
The 2020 Youth Innovation Challenge hosted by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation invites North American youth aged 18 to 30 to propose innovative solutions to address environmental challenges and opportunities for communities in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Website
Design for all people / Design for the elderly challenge: design a small object or system of objects that is focused on the needs of the elderly and that also corresponds to the usability needs of any other type of user. The challenge invites students and teachers to assess the needs of a future design […]
The Design Innovation Seed Fund supports designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas and products. These individuals/businesses are not able to raise funds easily from traditional banks or funding agencies because of the high risk associated with early stage innovation. Apply by 17 April. Website
The Andreu World International Design Contest has been held annually since 2001, which surely makes it one of the oldest in the world, and is unique in its specialty, the design of seats and tables. The figures accumulated in the editions that have been made until today are spectacular, with tens of thousands of participants […]
Good Design (GD) Selection, hosted by the Korean government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and organized by KIDP (Korea Institute of Design Promotion), has been held annually since 1985 based on the Industrial Design Promotion Act. The products and services selected thorough this program are given GD Marks in acknowledgement of their design excellence. […]
IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay (long time member of WDO) is initiating a Design Challenge on finding solutions for the Corona Virus Pandemic. This challenge is open to Students, Recent Graduates or Young Designers from around the World. This is a free design challenge where the solutions will be made available on an […]
Designers now have an important social task to fulfill. After the success of the previous editions of Madrid Gráfica, and in a challenging year that requires messages of encouragement, encouragement and responsibility, DIMAD and the Madrid City Council, with the support of the Madrid Business Forum, summon all the designers and graphic designers to participate […]
2020 Quanzhou China to open up new innovative platform, attract worldwide design force! Stimulating the creativity of design talents, strengthening the enterprises' competitiveness. Push transition of Quanzhou's industry from “Intensive Manufacturing” to “Design Driven Intelligent Manufacturing”. Upgrade Quanzhou's industry through innovations and build high quality brand symbol of “Quanzhou's Intelligent Manufacturing”. Quanzhou taking this opportunity […]
Building on the success of our first international competition, the Dupont Underground is launching a second competition: Re-Think Dupont Circle. One of the key public spaces in Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s famous urban plan for the nations capital, Dupont Circle was not built out until the late 19th century and has not seen a significant redesign […]
World Campus Masters Selective Graduation Design Program (short for "WCM Program”) is launched by an international design competition platform Young Bird Plan, and it is committed to recognizing the fresh blood of contemporary design through evaluating graduation designs from global young designers in different regions and cultures. It encourages original design and design thinking in […]
We are very pleased that our "neuland" competition for young talent will be back in 2021. This is made possible by the generous support of the Karl Schlecht Foundation. The registration is now available, the closing date for entries is 31 March 2021. Eligible to participate are students and graduates of colleges, academies and universities […]
HAY! YoungBirds！is an international competition IP and a design stage created jointly by Danish contemporary design brand HAY, which endorses cross-cultural collaboration, and the Young Bird Plan, an international competition platform for global design talents. In 2020,this competition is committed to engaging more young, bold, and innovative designers who represent the contemporary Asia-Pacific market. The […]
Launching a competition aimed at fostering human resources, proposing new ways of life, and promoting local industry Higashikawa, a major producer of Asahikawa furniture, has established the "Kengo Kuma & Higashikawa" KAGU Design Competition in collaboration with architect Kengo Kuma, and is currently accepting applications for the competition. We are seeking designs for "KAGU" that […]
The Plagiarius-Competition is already announced for the 45th time. Since 1977, Aktion Plagiarius e.V. grants its anti-prize "Plagiarius" to those manufacturers and distributors whom the jury has found guilty of making or selling "the most flagrant" (design) imitations and fakes. The goal is to denounce the unscrupulous business practices of counterfeiters who pilfer intellectual property […]
To reconstruct the water tower, fully consider the water tower itself and its surrounding conditions of architecture and historical culture, merely reconstruct the façade (including but not limit to art installation embedding or overlapping, micro renewal of façade, façade painting, new outer skin covering, etc.) to make it reborn in two layers – image and […]
WDO’s World Design Impact Prize aims to recognize and elevate industrial design-driven projects that have a positive impact on our social, economic, cultural or environmental quality of life. Open internationally, projects can either be submitted directly by 30 April 2021 or nominated by a third party before 31 March 2021. In addition to being thoughtfully […]
How Climate Change is affecting Communities, Cities and Countries? Take the Problem as an opportunity for expressing ideas and designs to bring the change. Climate change is creating vulnerable situations globally, creating problems and risks from drought conditions to flooding. Its impact on the environment, people, economy, social structure and political scenario is unimaginative. Climate […]
Rural Design Days are organized by Silicon Vilstal, an rural innovation platform based in Lower Bavaria. Together with the Vienna-based informal group “Global Villages Network”, we also seek to generate common perceptions of the trends and opportunities, maybe even design patterns and desirable developments for the many variants of rural and peripheral areas worldwide. Website
