This competition addresses the ubiquitous and sustainable city life of the future. Seoul is changing and developing quite rapidly and the citizens of Seoul are realizing the advantages of this change through constructing new subway lines, repairing road systems, implementing a new bus line system, designing new contemporary buildings, and creating more green parks around the city. Korea’s capital is making a tremendous effort to change its landscape from one that’s plain and practical to one that is environmentally -friendly and is a convenient place to live. The objectives of the competition include: identifying new design opportunities for the sustainable city life, addressing the design discourse and exploration for the living design, that breathes with nature’s five elements: air, water, light, wind, and earth, and seeking creative design solutions to be applied to future city design projects. Categories include: urban environment, visual communication, industrial design, and other designs. Contact EunSook Kwon, Director General, Seoul Design Olympiad 2008, “designseoul AT seoul.go.kr”.

Deadline: 31 July 2008.

Via: Metropolis

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Blu-ray are changing the way you watch movies! Be part of the ultimate in high definition by creating your own poster, ad or video for Blu-ray. Sony encounrages you to design an original, exciting and passionate expression of why Blu-ray offers the best movie experience with its high definition, better-than-cable or satellite quality, better picture than DVD and pure hi-def audio. Come up with an incredible idea as well as the tagline, “Why Blu?” and you could win amaing Sony prizes including a Sony PlayStation 3 with built-in Blu-ray Disc Player and $250 cash or scholarship.

Deadline is 30 July 2008 at 11:30 pm PST. Visit the site to learn more.

The street designs of the past are not adequate to meet 21st-century challenges. Therefore, Transportation Alternatives is looking for new conceptual and physical approaches to the planning of public streets by asking participants to redesign the intersection of 9th Street and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. The street will be re-imagined as a healthy, safe, and sustainable 21st-century street. The competition will conclude with an exhibit in a public place in December 2008. A publication will also be produced to highlight entries with significant merit that may not have been included in the exhibition and all submissions will be available for public review on this web site once awards have been announced.

The competition is open to the entire public: they hope that community members without any design training as well as design professionals and students will submit their ideas for street design improvements at this intersection. The registration deadline is July 18 (this week!), and all entries are due on August 18 by 5 PM. Visit the site to learn more.

Everyville is a new exurban community that has emerged around the intersection of Avenue Z and X Street, just to the Southwest of the intersection of Highway 1 and the Beltway around Megalopolis, about 20 kilometers from the city’s core. Making good use of the flat, featureless terrain that used to support dairy farming, developers have carved the plains here into several subdivisions that by now house over 20,000 inhabitants. Analysts expect that the whole 25-square kilometer area that used to be the historic Big A and Small B farms can eventually support as many as 50,000 inhabitants and perhaps even more.

Recently, Everyville set out a Request for Proposals in which architects are asked to suggest how they might create an image, a coherence, a character and a civic sense for this small town, appropriate to its location and to its history, its site and its future. The proposal can be idiosyncratic. It may even be utopian. It should certainly be an evocation of a real place of community where there is right now none and that may be again just a series of fragments in sprawl a decade from, it should be an Everyville of the imagination and of memory, of hope and of fear.

The proposal must take the form of a series of drawings that will allow citizens to see what Everyville will look like in ten years, and how that community will make sense through the medium of architecture. The deadline for the submission is July 15, 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Enter your work in HOW magazine’s Interactive Design Competition. All winning entries will be featured in HOW’s huge April 2009 Design Annual and will receive a $100 discount toward registration for the 2009 HOW Design Conference. One Best of Show winner will be prominently featured in the April 2009 Design Annual and will be our guest at the 2009 HOW Conference (round-trip airfare within the U.S., hotel and registration paid by HOW).

Work must have been created between Jan. 1, 2007, and July 15, 2008. Any interactive, interface or motion designs for the web, for kiosks, for broadcast or for use on Macintosh or Windows platforms, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, are eligible. All entries must be postmarked no later than July 15, 2008. Entries postmarked after July 15 require a late fee of $25 per entry. Entries postmarked after Aug. 1, 2008, will not be accepted. Visit the site to learn more.

It’s that time again - time for the reddot design award. Participation extends to all designers, design studios, companies, research laboratories, inventors, design professionals and students from anywhere in the world are eligible to enter.

All kinds of inventions, novelty designs and aesthetic designs that are not in the market, and not produced for sale before 1 December 2008 can be entered. Award decisions are taken on the concept presentations directly by the jury during the adjudication process.

Registration deadline is 11 July 2008. Visit the site to learn more.