LG Mobile Phones, in association with crowdSPRING, an online marketplace for creative services, and Autodesk, the leading 2D and 3D design and engineering software producer, has announced the third LG annual design the future contest to characterize the future of mobile communication. The main goal of the innovative effort is to give the opportunity to the consumers to design a revolutionary next-generation LG mobile phone that reflects their passion and fulfill their future requirements. This year, over 40 winners will be awarded with $80,000 cash in total along with other alluring presents. Autodesk will provide the participants a 15-days free trial of SketchBook Pro which features an intuitive, streamlined user interface that even new users can operate easily to create their dream phone. Submission of design began on March 15, 2010 and will remain open till April 26, 2010, winners of the competition will be announced on May 14, 2010 at http://www.crowdspring.com/LG/winners
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The Electrolux Design Lab 2010 features a great opportunity for worldwide undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to illustrate their skills and creativity on designing innovative home appliances that can shrink domestic spaces. This year, the contest has been named as ‘The Second Space Age’ and is looking for ideas on efficient preparation and storing food, easy dishwashing, washing clothes, and many more that contributes to the improvement of the year 2050 lifestyle. The key consumer requirements of design submissions for this year have been set as being green, allowing for individualization and adaptive to space and time. The winning submission will get €5,000 plus a paid internship for 6 months at an Electrolux global design center. Moreover, the first and the second runner-up will get €3,000 and €2,000 respectively. Deadline: 1 May, 2010
Source : Electrolux Design Lab
The eVouse is a revolutionary wireless laptop mouse concept that features excellent outlook and two different functions to make computing easier. Aside from using it as a traditional mouse, this ‘V’ shaped mouse can be used as a pen sensor for particular design works like designing an industrial entity. The tactile action buttons and scroll offers convenient using and illuminates green light with every action movement which demonstrates it’s ‘in use’ status. The pen sensor is placed at the top corner of the head, allowing the user to have a perfect grip on the mouse when dragging it to perform particular action.
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Physalia is an innovative scientific architectural vessel prototype that aims to meet the need of new generation floating purification station in order to sensitize the population with sulpher and carbon free ecological tools. This amphibious vessel concept is a half earthly and half aquatic floating agora that not only deals with ecology by saving water, but also elaborates strategic solutions to sentient the fluvial network. With its various functional features, this vessel not only contributes the environment by saving water, refilling ground waters, controlling domestic, industrial and rainwater recycling, purifying agriculture pollutions (nitrates, plant health), desalinating sea water and many more, but also promotes the waterways as fluvial tourism and commercial transport, water sports, agriculture irrigation, hydro-electricity production, protection against floods, and many more.
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It’s true that traditional round shaped coins have many functional advantages for which we still stick with it. But think of something different than you have seen all your life as coins that can be much more handy and easy to spot. Japanese industrial designer Mac Funamizu has envisioned Infographic coins, a set of coins that can easily be remembered by those who are not much familiar with them. The coins have been designed keeping the pie chart in mind, so a person who knows how to read pie charts will find great convenience recognizing these coins even in dark nights. It’s not been notified by the designer that if the surface of the coins features Braille code, I am sure it would be great for visually handicapped persons if the answer is YES.
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