The results are in for Design 21: Social Design Network's three-way competition . Designers from 59 countries submitted over 800 entries for the three competition categories, which were:

"Heated Issue" - Design an awareness campaign to educate the public on the issue of global warming.

"Child's Play" - Design an object that encourages children to cultivate their own imagination and creativity.

"ShelterMe" - Design a temporary emergency shelter for deployment in a natural disaster.

The architectural firm of Rios Clemente Hale is known for the distinctive patterns and bursts of color that wrap the restaurants, schools and public spaces they design. But not every idea made it from the blueprints to the buildings, and the principals soon found themselves with a plethora of concepts that might work better as housewares than houses. In 2001 they launched notNeutral, a lifestyle and product design company where they could take their musings to the masses. They secured a storefront on Los Angeles’ Melrose Avenue to showcase the collection, which is utterly architectural in spirit. Example: A new furniture line named Tetra draws equal inspiration from case study housing and the Nintendo game Tetris. But a recent release named City Plates takes architecture-as-product to a new level: A series of four plates feature downtown maps of four cities—L.A., Shanghai, Cairo and Berlin —sure to evoke all sorts of geography, urbanism and planning conversations around the dinner table.

2008 Nespresso Design Contest - Coffee Luxury

As a company dedicated to offering the ultimate coffee experience served by design excellence and innovation, Nespresso launches the 2008 Nespresso Design Contest - Coffee Luxury - to celebrate and recognize the innovative ideas and extraordinary design achievements of young designers graduating from leading international design schools.

Through the design contest, Nespresso aims to encourage future innovative design of its coffee machines and coffee culture accessories collection in addition to generating unique coffee experiences.

Remember the 2nd Roca Design Competition :Wellness that was featured on our site ?

Alberto Nogueras Castillo, student of industrial design of the Escola Superior de Disseny ESDI in Sabadell, (Spain), has won the prize of the 2nd International Roca Design Competition “Wellness”, launched by Roca and organized by BCD, with the project Watermassage.

The jury met at BCD’s office on 15 May 2007. They were:
- Josep Congost, Roca design director, Spain
- Marie-Marguerite Gabillard, director Centre Rhone Alpes, France
- Chris Lefteri, designer, United Kingdom
- Wolfram Peters, managing partner, npk industrial design bv, The Netherlands
- Gabriele Pezzini, designer, Italy
- Benedetta Tagliabue, architect, Spain

Isabel Roig, BCD’s director general acted as the jury secretary with the right to speak, but not to vote. Benedetta Tagliabue was elected as the jury president.

Capital Garden

A new concept for the central located park named Capital Garden is to be found. Due to its core location, this project has the option to be a cultural and economic heart of one of the most important capitals of the Middle East.

Shift 2008 Calendar Competition

Shift has been trying to offer artists many platforms to showcase their works online. The Shift calendar competition held from 2003 successively, pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a "calendar" as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.
This year, selected works will be exhibited and sold at PRINT'EM web site for a year with support by PRINT'EM, a graphic print center operated by Mitsubishi Paper MIlls Limited. Also it will be exhibited at the gallery cafe Soso from December 1st to 26th, 2007.

The deadline for this competition is on September 10th, 2007. Please show/send us your original work.