See you in 2008!

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Inhabitat and Core77 invite designers to explore the concept of “Greener Gadgets.” Designs should seek to minimize the environmental impact of consumer electronic devices at any stage in the product lifecycle. Areas of sustainability to consider include:

1. Energy
2. Materials / Lifecycle / Recycling
3. Social & educational development

Participants are encouraged to consider their designs as part of the entire product ecosystem, and should think as holistically as possible. Designers may choose to focus their entries on a particular area of human enterprise (learning, playing, communicating, etc.), or a particular context (work, home, school, etc.), a particular material, or a specific device. Entries may also seek to create new paradigms for products and services.

Deadline closes at 11:59 pm EST on 27 January 2008. Visit the Greener Gadgets site for details!

Millennium School is a design competition for school buildings in developing countries located in the tropics. The Millennium School Design Competition is part of the Be Better Build Better Campaign and aims to solicit the best architecture-for-humanity designs from all over the world. Architects shall be brought together in a collective effort to try to find solutions to the problems of school buildings in the developing world, and in particular those that are constantly faced by natural disasters like typhoons, flash floods and earthquakes.

The competition will facilitate the emergence of new sustainable design solutions and appropriate technologies that will improve the quality of school buildings in the developing world. The competition will offer a venue for the practice of architecture for a client group that would otherwise have no access to design professionals that can solve their problems.

Deadline for registration is 11 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

By Kids For Kids (BKFK) announced the extension of four concurrent teen innovation contests today to allow for wider participation: The Digital Storytelling Challenge, The Signature Style Challenge, The Sports Evolution Challenge and The Going Green Challenge. These competitions are the just the first round of challenges to be launched on the company’s newly upgraded teen creativity portal at www.bkfk.com, powered by the flagship “Idea Locker™.”

Teens have been responsible for some remarkable creative output and innovations. Did you know that Jim Shooter was just 13 when he started selling stories to DC Comics? Did you know that Tommy Hilfiger, Stella McCartney and Jean Paul Gaultier all achieved success in the fashion industry before the age of 18? Or that Water-skis, the Frisbee and the Trampoline were all invented by teens? How about the “green teens” already in action saving our environment? Smitha Ramakrishna , 15, was one of ten chosen in the nation for the President’s Environmental Youth Award, given by the EPA. She was recognized for a special project that helped deliver clean water to the world. And Victor Nashan , 16, of Tanzania, East Africa, raises environmental consciousness through using creative methods like songs, poems, art and games.
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Burnswell wants to be more than just another t-shirt store. They’re looking to find some new t-shirt talents through their Big Deal t-shirt competition. Six winners a month (two contests with three winners each) will be printed and sold as totally limited edition shirts, on sale for only three days and then gone forever. And of course the winners will be rewarded, in the form of free shirts and prizes of $300, $200 and $100 (depending on ranking). And if your design is a big seller, you could be entitled to an even larger prize. Visit the site for details. I’ve also added this site to the “nonstop contests” in the links in the middle column.

Via: the t-shirt competition guide

For nearly five decades, the Clio Awards has been committed to the mission of celebrating and rewarding creative excellence in advertising and design, honoring one of the most influential forms of communication and its impact on modern culture. The Clio Awards, part of Nielsen Business Media, receives more than 19 000 entries from over 60 countries in a broad range of mediums including Interactive, Television/Cinema/Digital, Content & Contact, Print, Poster, Billboard, Innovative Media, Integrated Campaign, Radio, Design and student work, and are judged by world-class juries made up of more than 100 top creatives from 65 countries. The culmination of the competition takes place each May at the annual Clio Awards Festival, in Miami’s South Beach, attended by an international who’s who of advertising and digital marketing.

Deadline for entry submissions is 15 January 2008 for all entries first appearing between 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2007. Deadline for entries that originally appeared in the first quarter of 2008 is 29 February 2008. The online entry system for the 2008 awards program is currently open at www.clioawards.com.

It’s that time of year again, when Design Within Reach puts out a call out to designers and would-be designers for Design Uncorked: The annual DWR Champagne Chair Contest.

Create an original miniature chair using only the foil, label, cage and cork from no more than two Champagne bottles. Chairs will be judged by a panel of industry experts and the winners will embark on a nation-wide tour. The winning designers will receive DWR Gift Cards. In an effort to minimize the mountains of packaging waste generated in the past, submissions can now be made digitally. Submission deadline is 5 p.m. (Pacific Time) on 7 January. Visit the link above to learn more.

Via: statesman.com

BravoTV is seeking undiscovered interior design stars for the second season of its hit competition series TOP DESIGN! They’re looking for all types of artists, interior designers - up-and-comers, established professionals and those aspiring to greatness. The winner will receive a spread in ELLE DECOR, $100,000 and lots of media coverage.

Completed applications and videotapes must be received by 15 February 2008 at 12:00PM ET to be considered; however, the earlier you send in that tape, the better. The video will become the property of the Producers and will not be returned to you, whether or not you are selected as a contestant. Visit the site to learn more.

Call for entries for the 4th annual HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) begins on Monday, 14 January 2008. Filmmakers from around the globe are encouraged to submit their short films 30 minutes and under to HollyShorts, one of the fastest growing festivals in the US and the premiere short film event in Hollywood, CA. Submissions will be accepted through Withoutabox.com. The 4th annual HollyShorts Film Festival takes place 8-10 August 2008 in Hollywood.

Visit the site to learn more.

Entries are currently being accepted for I.D. magazine’s 2008 Student Design Review. They are searching for the best work from design schools around the world in industrial, graphic, interactive and “miscellaneous” design. One Best of Show winner will get US $1,000 in cold, hard cash. Plus, all winning projects may be posted on the I.D. website (www.id-mag.com) with links to winners’ online portfolios, and will be featured in the I.D. September/October 2008 issue.

The 2008 Student Design Review is open to any student enrolled in a collegiate-level design program (undergraduate or graduate), anywhere in the world. All projects entered must be the result of a classroom/academic assignment, and must have been designed/completed during the 2006-2007 academic year. Deadline is 1 February 2008. Visit the site to learn more.