The IDEA® (International Design Excellence Awards) program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Entries are invited from designers, students and companies worldwide.

Winning entries will receive press coverage in BusinessWeek magazine and businessweek.com as well as in hundreds of newspapers and networks, including CNN, NBC, PBS, CNBC, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and the general design press.

Entries into the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) will be accepted until 29 February 2008. The late entry deadline is 7 March 2008 (The February deadline is the only one on this calendar). Visit the site to learn more about the caqtegories and how to enter.