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.

The deadline for entering the 2008 One Show, One Show Interactive, and One Show Design awards is 31 January 2008. The online entry system is now live and accepting submissions. For the first time in its 33 year history, all three shows will be held during one festival week, with the complete international jury meeting in New York City for a final round of judging the week of the shows.

To download a Call for Entries PDF, including the full list of categories with detailed instructions for entering online and preparing your entries, go to www.oneclub.org.

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Integrating Habitats is a premier international design competition aimed at generating innovative ideas and site designs that protect and enhance water quality, as well as fish and wildlife habitats. Integrating Habitats calls for innovative, visionary design proposals that combine design excellence, ecological stewardship and economic enterprise.

Integrating Habitats seeks multi-disciplinary, collaborative designs of the future that integrate built and natural environments. Winning designs selected by this world-renowned jury will redefine the current language and standards of environmental sustainability by fostering balance between conservation and development, maximizing biodiversity and safeguarding water quality for this generation and those to come.

Deadline for competition is 17 December. Visit the site to learn more.

This is the latest from the RE:Vision competition site. This time they want you to think locally and envision a mixed-use neighborhood with healthy, symbiotic relationships among the land, the people, and the businesses. You are to imagine ways to encourage locally owned businesses to replace chain stores! Their intention is to create physical social and fiscal wealth for the local community. The most attractive plans will propose an urban area where buildings are made of sustainable materials and retailers sell different types of products, maybe in new and different ways.

Ideally, everyone will benefit from this influx of ideas and business: families, the businesses themselves, and the environment. Final entry date is 15 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm and the Environmental Design Research Association announce the eleventh annual EDRA/Places Awards for Place Design, Planning and Research - this year in cooperation with Metropolis Magazine. Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs, their concern is for good places and how people inhabit them.

They seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

The awards jury will be held 29 February - 1 March at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with winners announced the week following. Official presentations will be made in May 2008 at the annual EDRA conference, to be held this year in Veracruz, Mexico. Winning projects will be announced in Metropolis and on the Places website, with full write-ups and commentary published in the Fall 2008 issue of Places.

The deadline for entries for the 2008 EDRA/Places Awards is 7 February 2008. Visit edra.org for all the details.

Dell invites design students and individuals to create a broad range of design concepts and innovations for technology products that demonstrate refreshed approaches and responsible solutions for green computing technologies.

Their goal is to facilitate an open exchange among all peoples of the Earth and contribute to the body of knowledge that advances the practice of environmentally responsible product design for current and future computing technology products.

The competition begins 9 January 2008 at 5:00PM US CST, and ends 2 April 2008 at 11:59PM US CST. There is no cost to enter, but the competition is not open to residents of Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and where prohibited by law. Other stipulations apply. Visit the site to learn more.

Growing populations. Rapid development. Increased pressure on natural areas, clean rivers, streams and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. How can we balance development and growth with conservation and livability? Integrating Habitats calls for innovative, visionary design proposals that combine design excellence, ecological stewardship and economic enterprise.

Integrating Habitats seeks multi-disciplinary, collaborative designs of the future that integrate built and natural environments. Winning designs selected by a world-renowned jury will redefine the current language and standards of environmental sustainability by fostering balance between conservation and development, maximizing biodiversity and safeguarding water quality for this generation and those to come.

This competition is open to all visionary, multi-disciplinary professionals and students. The three sites are located in metropolitan Portland, Oregon. Registration is open until 15 December 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 NAHB National Green Building Awards. Each year, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recognizes individuals, companies and organizations for excellence in residential green design and construction practices and for green building program and advocacy efforts.

The prestigious awards will be presented at a gala dinner as part of the 10th anniversary of the NAHB National Green Building Conference in New Orleans, 11-13 May 2008.

Building entries can be scored to the green home certification system of the applicant’s choice. Applications are due 30 January 2008, and all entrants must be NAHB members. Visit the site to learn more.

The 2007/2008 Leading Edge Student Design Competition will focus on the coastal environment of beautiful Santa Barbara. Students entering Challenge 1 will design an Environmental and History Center with display space in an historic barn and students entering Challenge 2 will design a 3- unit townhouse-style student residence. Both projects will be located in the West Campus area of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

The Competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, engineering, drafting, and environmental design at two-year colleges, technical schools, four- and five-year colleges and universities. Students may enter as individuals or teams. The competition may be treated as a class project or a separate independent study. A faculty member must supervise all participants.

Final registration date is 28 March 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The 2008 Next Generation® Design Competition focuses on WATER. In a world of killer floods and rising tides, potable water is a finite resource. Water is everywhere - in nature, industry, home, our bodies, products, interiors, buildings, landscapes, systems (just to name a few).

The Next Generation Design Competition is open to any designer or architect in practice for ten years or less, as well as design students. The $10,000 prize is intended to support designers whose entries reflect considerations of sustainability, distribution and manufacturing systems, economy, current technologies and materials, function, and provocative form and can speak to any one of the 6 sub-disciplines supported by the magazine’s architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, product design, and graphic design.

Deadline is 4 January 2008 at 11:59 pm. Visit the site for details.