Inhabitat is at it again - they’re showcasing the work produced by students from the University of Belgrade, made from industrial wood and shown at the Milan Furniture Fair. They want you to vote for your favorite design - whether you vote or not, go take a look at the student work. It’s amazingly creative and beautiful!

The 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair will be held 17-20 May this year at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. North America’s singular showcase for contemporary design, this Fair draws the most intrepid seekers of design truth and design trends to an extraordinary exhibition of the most inspired models of design on the forefront as well as thought-provoking programs and a schedule of supplementary exhibits and features.

View and draw inspiration from displays of furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, images, accessories, textiles and kitchen and bath. For more information, visit the ICFF site.

At Right: Shopping cart chair from Reestore Design.

Calling all eco furniture designers! All green ID geniuses! All chair connoisseurs! Here’s your chance to conjure up an innovative armchair in keeping with the tenets of “good” (ie “green”) design. The One Good Chair Competition is looking for some smart new designs that balance beauty with comfort while letting sustainable forms shine through. The winning team will receive $4,500 to help realize their design as a prototype.

Contest entries will be judged according to innovation and originality in three categories: make (material conservation), feel (physical comfort), and looks (emotional resonance). Registration costs $50 and is open until May 16th (this is the date marked on this site’s calendar), while all designs must be submitted by June 9th. Inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher is one of the judges for this great competition, so begin by reading more about this contest at Inhabitat!

Promosedia invites designers to submit indoor chair designs for its Promosedia Intl. Design Competition–Caiazza Memorial Challenge. Entries will be accepted from architects, designers and students under the age of 40.

Competitors may submit a single design that is unpublished, original and technically feasible. The design must consider ergonomics, function, materials and the requirements for mass production, as well as incorporate wood. Designs for chaise longues, divans, stools, pouffes and other types of seating will not be accepted. All entries must be submitted on a CD to Promosedia by 31 March 2008. Visit the site at www.promosedia.it to learn more.

Via: FurnitureStyle

The Bolia Design Awards is open for any corporate or private designer, who has a passion for furniture and a desire to be a part of the development of New Scandinavian Design. The objective is to design a piece of furniture for living-, dining or bedroom. It must be a single product, i.e. a sofa, a swivel chair, a dining- or coffee table, a dining chair or a bed. Bolia will award the 2 best designs, as well as give the possibility for the designers to join the Bolia Design Team, on a free lance basis.

Bolia also give the opportunity for the awarded designs to be produced and sold in all Bolia.com stores, and internationally promoted through Bolia the catalogue, web site and PR measures. To participate please submit your design by 13 December 2007 (this is a mail-in contest, so be sure to enter early enough for your entry to reach Denmark by the 13th). Visit the site to learn more.

Open to everyone, the semi-annual Pulse Innovative Design Contest encourages designers and non-designers alike to submit original designs to Pulse for consideration. The winner gets fame and fortune (well maybe not) and Pulse stay son the cutting edge by constantly shaking up their product line and hearing from the people on the street. Plus, it’s is part of our mandate to support the design community by giving it access to manufacturing, marketing venues and potential revenues.

Although in the spirit of being kind to one another they’d like to say everyone is a winner, in this case they’re not. Pulse will pick a maximum of 2 winners from each submission deadline. However if there is no entries that blow them away, they may not declare a winner for that deadline.

Prize is $1000 USD per winner, inclusion in the Pulse furniture line-up, 1% royalties on all sales generated by the winning design (lifetime), and infamy. The deadlines each year are 15 January and 15 July. Both dates will be noted on this calendar for 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Furniture Society and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, will jointly sponsor a competitive exhibition, MULTIPLICITY, the Art of the Furniture Prototype, to be presented at the Museum 15 June - 10 August 2008.

The Society’s 12th annual conference will take place at Purchase College, 18 – 21 June 2008. The competition is open to studio furniture makers, artists, architects and industrial designers. Prototypes may be of any type of furniture in any materials - created since January 2000 – and intended for production, whether small batch or mass production. Only full-scale, completed prototypes will be accepted. A full-color catalog of the exhibition, with contributed essays, will be published and distributed by the Furniture Society. In addition, the exhibition sponsors will present three awards of $3,500, $1,000, and $500 selected by the jurors. These prize winning pieces will also be displayed at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) 17-20 May 2008.

Entries due at The Furniture Society in Asheville, North Carolina on 15 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

George Li..le Management, LLC (GLM), producer and manager of the ICFF, and Bernhardt Design announce a call for entries. ICFF Studio invites submissions from designers working on any and all the product categories exhibited at the ICFF: furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath. Selected designers win a spot to display their prototypes at ICFF Studio, a group area with individual booths on the exhibition floor.

For consideration, submit: a completed Entry Form; photo prints of up to three product prototypes for possible exhibition at the ICFF; and, supporting information including a biography. Deadline for entries is 15 January 2008. Download the PDF for entry and more information.

Via: Apartment Therapy: Chicago

The IFDA (International Furniture Design Fair Asahikawa) has been held every three years since 1990. It is considered an important occasion for furniture makers in Asahikawa to exchange ideas with designers from Japan as well as from other parts of the world.

The International Furniture Design Competition, the main event of the Fair, serves as an indicator of the future of wooden-furniture designs. In addition, it is the focus of public attention because of its competition in cutting-edge designs.

Works (cabinets, tables, chairs and others) entered must be newly created (mostly from wood) and previously unpublished. “Unpublished” means that the work has never appeared on the market as a product, has never appeared in a newspaper, magazine, or exhibition, and has never been a winner in other competitions before the sponsor announces the results of the main selection process (please refrain from entering this competition and other competitions at the same time.) A work which has appeared in student exhibitions is considered unpublished.

All Internet entries will be accepted until midnight Japan Time (GMT+9:00) on Friday, 7 December 2007. All entries by post will be accepted until the end of business hours on Friday, 7 December 2007. Visit the site to learn more.