Art student wins $50,000-salary position Oct 11, 2009
She received a $30,000 scholarship to the Art Institute through another contest, plus a $3,000 scholarship for a poster design competition at the school. The contest results have encouraged SpinSix to try it again. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Weekend Events Oct 9, 2009
Hear from artists at Maritime Museum Entrepreneur and designer Paul Rowan, VP of Design for Umbra, will participate in a panel discussion and idea exchange on Erie's creative economy, Saturday, 1:30 to 5 p.m., at the Maritime Museum, 150 E. Front St. This event kicks off InnovationErie: Design Competition 2010. Cost: Free Info: Visit. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Bear Country is Wild West Oct 9, 2009
The seniors, juniors and sophomores tied for first place in the hoop design competition with the freshmen coming in second place. Thursday was Celebrity Day. (Mid Iowa Enterprise, IA)
Syria Fashion Designers Splash Out In Debut Show Oct 7, 2009
The glitzy occasion was Syria's first ever fashion design competition, meant to encourage young Syrian talents and local products. But perhaps more importantly, it was part of the authorities' recent efforts to soften Syria's image and open up the authoritarian country. (CBS News -- World)
Around Town: How our giant green convention center survived the G-20 without an HQ hotel Oct 6, 2009
In 1998, the Heinz Endowments and other foundations sponsored a $783,000 design competition for a new convention center. That led to the selection of New York architect Rafael Vinoly and his sloping-roof design. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Environment is Maya Lin's Latest Muse Oct 4, 2009
In 1981, at the age 21, Lin won a design competition for the memorial, and her entry produced the now famous polished black granite wall, with the names of 58,260 fallen soldiers carved into its face. As a Chinese American, she faced much opposition and criticism; letters were written protesting that a "gook" was chosen to create this iconic structure, recalled Lin in an interview with ABC.. (ABC News)
Official: Standard Chartered, RBS deal breaks down Oct 4, 2009
Spain said Thursday it has disqualified a group of Israeli academics from a solar power design competition because their university is in the West Bank, the latest in a series of low-level European sanctions against Israel over its settlement policy. Spain expelled the team representing Ariel University Center of Samaria from an international contest called the Solar Decathlon, in which 20 universities are presenting designs for solar-powered homes, a Housing Ministry official said. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
* Orchid park lures tourists Oct 1, 2009
Visitors can also view entries in an orchid design competition scheduled to begin on Saturday, part of a series of activities to mark the transformation of the plantation into a leisure and tourism park, Hsu added. This story has been viewed 373 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Cliff dwellers edgy over grass slope plan Sep 26, 2009
Philip Thalis, the architect who won the international design competition on converting the Millers Point site, calls it ''one of the great sandstone cuts that are part of Sydney's landscape'', which should be preserved and loved ... " The Lend Lease proposal involves the British architect, Lord Rogers, whose design for the public domain was always preferred by Keating in the design competition Thalis won in 2006. Keating has already flagged "four or five" 42-storey towers on the site, far more... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
River turbines could electrify New York City Sep 24, 2009
The designers came up with the concept as an entry for this year's Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Design Competition. "Since then, a lot of people have come out of the woodwork who put together clean energy deals for cities, or even in some cases developing countries," said researcher Richard Garber at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, co-founder of the firm GRO Architects. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Rats eye harbour delights Sep 24, 2009
A global design competition hijacked, not by some disgruntled designer but by one of the jury, an ex-prime minister, no less, still lauded for his larrikin lingo but known principally for his paradoxical belief that everything good happened before 1788. Add the handing of Sydney's most glamorous development opportunity ever to a motley ''delivery authority'' of estate agents, developers, career politicians and an engineer versed in the malling of airports and the remorseless sanitising of... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Iconic Lingerie - Hilary Swank, Franca Sozzani, Qi Qi, Giovanni Gastel, Wichy Hassan and Jan Rosenberg Nominate the Winner of the Triumph Inspiration Award 2009 Sep 24, 2009
The Triumph Inspiration Award, inaugurated in 2008, is a global design competition created by the lingerie specialist Triumph International. The Award challenges students from prestigious international design schools to create a conceptual showpiece-set, comprising of an under-wired bra and brief, dedicated in 2009 to the design motto: "Icons". (PR Newswire)
AmberGlen plan's open space regains focus Sep 23, 2009
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Architect sees conspiracy in Barangaroo lockout Sep 21, 2009
THE architect who won the international design competition for Sydney's biggest harbourside redevelopment has accused the Government of locking people out because it fears the public will grow attached to it if allowed in. Philip Thalis, whose team won the design competition for Barangaroo, said the public had been refused access to the 22-hectare site at East Darling Harbour because of concerns they would see the benefits of his proposal to retain its current size ... In April 2006, Mr Thalis... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Proposed Village Green Plan Prompts Threat of Suit Sep 20, 2009
"advertisement Spoonhour suggested that a class-action lawsuit including "all property owners in Pinehurst who are all beneficiaries of the historical design of which their properties are a part" could be appropriate. A village commission has been studying the desirability of enhancing the unoccupied 7.3 acres of the Green for months. In May, it recommended that some sort of improvement would be beneficial to the village. At that time, the Village Council expanded the commission and authorized... (The Pilot Newspaper)
Storming the headland Sep 19, 2009
"Keating's plan is theme park history," said Philip Thalis, the softly spoken architect who led the local consortium that won the State Government's international design competition for the site in 2006 ... IN APRIL 2006, he was on the panel judging the shortlist of five designs picked from 137 submitted in Sydney Harbour's first international design competition since the Opera House ... He was never going to tolerate the winning design, and the seeds for its destruction were planted in the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
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Design Competition Seeks Innovative Ideas from Students and Nonprofits :: PNNOnline. Design Competition Seeks Innovative Ideas from Students and Nonprofits Posted by: philcrosby on Thursday, September 17, 2009 ... Held in New Orleans for the second consecutive year, this real estate design competition continues to match practical design ideas of college students with the real-life community needs of low- to moderate-income families in the Crescent City. (PNN Online)
Teens win big at the recent 3D Computer Games Design Competition. Sep 14, 2009
Monday September 14, 2009 Creative designs Teens win big at the recent 3D Computer Games Design Competition. WITH their creative and well-presented game titled Dream Traveller, Low Y-Loon and Christopher Yah, both 17, from SMK Kota Kemuning in Shah Alam, Selangor, emerged champions in the recent 3D Computer Games Design Competition 2009. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Architects deride Keating's 'Mickey Mouse' vision Sep 14, 2009
OPEN space will be stripped from Sydney's biggest urban renewal project at East Darling Harbour for the sake of a ''Disneyland view of history'', say the architects who won the design competition for the site. In a stinging letter to the Department of Planning, the architects Philip Thalis, Paul Berkemeier and Jane Irwin accuse planners of cutting 1. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
• Recognitions Sep 12, 2009
The Mount Baker Plywood Furniture Scholarship is awarded to winners of the Mount Baker Products Plywood Furniture Design Competition ... The Mount Baker Plywood Furniture Scholarship is awarded to winners of the Mount Baker Products Plywood Furniture Design Competition ... The Mount Baker Plywood Furniture Scholarship is awarded to winners of the Mount Baker Products Plywood Furniture Design Competition. (Juneau Empire)
NARA digs out of digital avalanche Sep 12, 2009
August 2004 -- Design competition contracts are awarded to Harris and Lockheed Martin. September 2005 -- Lockheed Martin is selected to develop the ERA.2005-2008 -- Ability to transfer, inspect and store electronic records is developed. (FCW.com)
Input Sought on Village Green Sep 9, 2009
Wetmore said this design competition is similar to how Frederick Law Olmsted, the renowned landscape architect who designed the village, won the bid to design Central Park in New York City. The design for the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington was decided in a similar fashion, Melhorn added. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Grow All of Your Food or Just Teleport It by Year 2100 Sep 2, 2009
Electrolux Design Lab has announced the finalists in their annual design competition. Undergrad and graduate industrial design students were challenged to envision new home appliance ideas for the year 2100 that create new ways to prepare and store food, wash clothes, or do dishes. (Fox News)
Winner for Sitra's Low2No Sustainable Development Design Competition Selected Sep 2, 2009
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Designer's passion for passion recognized Aug 30, 2009
The owner of Dress Forms Design Studio in Sioux City for more than 10 years is one of 12 designers nationally chosen to compete in the third annual American Sewing Expo Passion for Fashion design challenge, a Project Runway-like design competition ... In addition to the September competition, Mahon has a design completed and submitted for the National Association Design Competition in October. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Green Printer Needs No Ink, No Electricty -- Just Coffee Aug 28, 2009
Featured in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the RITI printer apparently uses coffee or tea dregs to create computer printouts. To use the printer just insert a piece of paper, place used coffee or tea grinds into the ink case on the top of the printer, then move the ink case left and right to print the image no electricity needed, Greener Gadgets reported. (Fox News)
Despite network change, Project Runway still brings the fashion, drama to the catwalk Aug 22, 2009
The sixth season of Project Runway premiered last night on Lifetime, the first year that the network hosted the award-winning fashion design competition. Despite the network shift, the show copied the same formula to bring the fashion juggernaut back on the airwaves, complete with couture and drama like we all expected. (Daily Orange, NY)
Inside IKEA's Human Intranet Approach Aug 22, 2009
The results of NNGs eighth annual intranet design competition highlights a development shift in today's top intranets, emphasizing access to people rather than data. It's a trend that corresponds with IKEA's business model: A perfect marriage of corporate culture, business imperatives, and the technology that supports the two. (IntranetJournal)
'Runway' and Klum stay in fashion Aug 20, 2009
The design competition returns for a sixth season on a new network (Lifetime), in a new city (Los Angeles), with 16 new contestants, all looking to dazzle their way to fashion greatness. "Project Runway" premieres Thursday, about eight months later than its original date. (CNN)
Students battle for Bafta award Aug 19, 2009
Its teams took all three finalist spots at a computer games design competition. They beat groups from the UK, China, India, Norway and Canada to be named the winners at this year's Dare to be Digital contest. (BBC News -- Technology)
Plans for V&A in Dundee get boost Aug 18, 2009
Page last updated at 09:40 GMT, Monday, 17 August 2009 10:40 UK. Government backs Vum plans. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
GetAFreelancer.com Announces US$10,000 Logo Design Competition Aug 17, 2009
com Announces US$10,000 Logo Design Competition ... com Announces US$10,000 Logo Design Competition ... NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced a global design competition to develop the website's new logo. (PR Newswire)
Foundations' money sparks Pittsburgh's recovery Aug 17, 2009
The Heinz History Center received $200,000 from the Heinz Endowments to build a "green" addition; the convention center where the G-20 will meet had its $750,000 "green" design competition funded by six foundations. One of the best-known donations - and one of the largest ever to a school district - is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's $100 million, 10-year commitment to the Pittsburgh Promise, a scholarship program for city high school graduates to attend Pennsylvania colleges. (Anchorage Daily News)
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IGN: Sony Awards $10,000 Scholarship For Second Annual G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition ... Sony Awards $10,000 Scholarship For Second Annual G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition. (IGN PS2)
Massive shields and gills add shock and awe to UTS Aug 1, 2009
Professor Milbourne said he was shocked when he saw the entry by architects Denton Corker Marshall after the design competition jury presented a shortlist of six entries. We walked into this room and all the panels for the six entries were up,;; he said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Contractors learn about Flight 93 work Jul 31, 2009
The presentation took place at the National Park Service office in Somerset. The seminar was conducted specifically for contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Firms compete to design YMCA community center Jul 30, 2009
A committee of community volunteers evaluated responses from 13 architectural firms and narrowed that group down to six semi-finalists to participate in a design competition. Four firms have been moved into the competition phase: Clarke, Caton, Hintz of Trenton; Fraridy, Veisz, Fraytak of Trenton; Hone + Associates of Lambertville; and Silverberg Associates of Princeton. (NJ.com -- Times)
* Taiwan News Quick Take Jul 23, 2009
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is offering NT$600,000 (US$18,300) in cash prizes in an artistic design competition to promote garbage recycling, an official said yesterday. EPA Minister Stephen Shen (H@) invited the public to join the online competition by submitting comic strips or videos on garbage recycling. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Bruce Lee family approve biopics Jul 21, 2009
Meanwhile, Hong Kong officials have launched a design competition to turn Lee's former home into a museum for the star ... Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, and a panel of architects and town planners will judge the design competition. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Competition aims to make Bruce Lee's former home, now a love motel, into a museum Jul 20, 2009
But officials on Monday launched a design competition to turn it into a Hong Kong museum for the kung fu icon ... Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, and a panel of architects and town planners will judge the design competition, and the winners will be announced in November or December, the Hong Kong government said in a statement. (FOX61, CT)
Bay Area may have some Index design winners Jul 20, 2009
The biannual Danish industrial design competition, now in its third cycle, has five 100,000 euro cash prizes; 10 Bay Area designs are among 72 finalists culled from 720 entries ... The biannual Danish industrial design competition, now in its third cycle, has five 100,000 euro cash prizes. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Magazine touts NJIT idea to harness clean energy for NYC Jul 16, 2009
Working at Garber's firm GRO Architects over the winter break, the two along with Nicole Robertson and Justin Foster (NJSOA '08) came up with the proposal and entered it in the 2009 Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Design Competition. The docking stations would plug into the conventional piers of New York City. (EurekAlert!)
Designers answer call to fight rising seas Jul 16, 2009
In fact, these are two of six winners announced Tuesday in a design competition that responds to a real-life threat - scientific projections that in the century to come, the sea level of San Francisco Bay could climb 55 inches beyond today's high tide. "We need to rethink how we build along the shoreline, but we didn't have the answers," said Will Travis, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, which organized the competition. (San Francisco Chronicle)
New Device Could Benefit Treatment Of Hand Injuries Jul 12, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 11, 2009) A team of Rice University bioengineering students who invented a device to measure intrinsic hand muscle strength has won two honors* for their patent-pending creation, PRIME. The device could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of hand injuries and neurological disorders, specifically carpal tunnel syndrome. Graduates Caterina Kaffes, Matthew Miller, Neel Shah and Shuai "Steve" Xu invented PRIME, or Peg Restrained Intrinsic Muscle Evaluator, for their senior... (Science Daily)
In brief: Burnham winner | Swissotel | Harold's Chicken Shack Jul 10, 2009
A seven-member jury unanimously picked DWAs design, according to the AIA Chicago Foundation, which oversaw the Burnham Memorial Design Competition. Public meetings are to begin next month on the memorial, which would be north of the Field Museum and paid for with private donations and sponsorships. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Clermont Hotel avoids foreclosure for now Jul 7, 2009
He has also started a design competition for students to draft designs for the hotel s lobby, rooms and its rooftop. Reader Comments. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
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French company Peugeot's design competition has unearthed this futuristic electric three-wheeled vehicle. --> Topics. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Mendota students place 2nd in national contest Jul 3, 2009
A team of students from McCabe Junior High School in Mendota placed second in a national engineering design competition held last month in Denver. The team -- made up of students Luis Escobar, Angel Hernandez, Alexis Pena and Karina Torres -- competed in the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement finals against six other state winners in the junior high/middle school division. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Bulldogs Prepare for Saturday's 144th Yale-Harvard Regatta Jul 1, 2009
Selected in a design competition in February 1998, the New Haven firm of Turner Brooks Architects created a building that is unlike any other boathouse in the world. The main building entrance brings athletes, coaches and visitors through the heraldic sliding oar "door" (a clustered frieze of aluminum oars) onto a porch that opens up dramatically to a framed view of the river. (Goyalebulldogs.com)
2009 Cannes Lions Official T-shirt Grand Prix Winner Selected Jun 29, 2009
UNIQLO led the creation of the official T-shirts for the 2009 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, holding a design competition for individuals to participate in the T-shirt creation process. We opened the design competition for the Cannes Lions T-shirt Grand Prix to the public via the Web for roughly one month from last November ... UNIQLO launched UT Grand Prix design competition in 2005 encouraging entrants to give their imagination free rein to express graphics and messages using... (PR Newswire)
The Chief’s Vendetta Jun 27, 2009
The University of Illinois tractor pull team, the Illini Pullers, won the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition and tractor pull, which was held May 28-31 in Peoria. Teams from around the United States and Canada competed. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Best Looking German Cars of 2009 Jun 26, 2009
In 2009, the Germans truly swept the design competition. The top five German car producers are clear - Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche and Volkswagen - largely because these same brands are pretty much ubiquitous amongst the top vehicle manufacturers worldwide. (Suite101.com)
Clermont working to avoid foreclosure Jun 24, 2009
Kansas, the Clermont s listing agent, is holding a design competition to encourage ideas of how to restore the iconic building. In true Clermont fashion, Kansas is planning a party on July 30 to announce the winner, complete with a live band. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Clermont Motor Hotel faces foreclosure; broker hopeful to avoid forced sale Jun 24, 2009
He has also started a design competition for students to draft designs for the hotel s lobby, rooms and its rooftop. At least four offers have been on the property, Kansas said, but in a difficult real estate market, landing a buyer has been challenging. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Students Make Pitches to Disney Jun 19, 2009
In addition to N.C. State, the other finalists in Walt Disney Imagineering's 18th Imagi-Nations Design Competition were California State University at Fullerton and Rowan University in New Jersey. advertisement. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Revamped Midtown arts complex planned Jun 18, 2009
Calatrava, the acclaimed architect now based in Zurich, acknowledged Tuesday that he has bowed out of the project, declining to compete in an another design competition. But Sasaki Associates principal Alan Ward said the master plan leaves enormous room for expressive architecture for the concert hall. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Image design competition held in N China's Tianjin Jun 17, 2009
A contestant makes up for a model during an image design competition held in north China's Tianjin, June 16, 2009. More than 230 contestants took part in the competition here Tuesday, during which an environment-friendly concept was advocated. (Xinhuanet, China)
Photos: High School Artists Open Their Eyes to Art Jun 16, 2009
Winners Announced in 2009 The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts Poster Design Competition ... PITTSBURGH, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Eighteen-year-old Ciara Borchard of Helendale, CA, created a winning poster design integrating the theme for The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts Poster Design Competition, "Life is Better with Art In It" and adding a twist with the phrase, "...Open Your Eyes." Her illustration featured a black and white picture of an eye that has a color... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
PHOTO GALLERY: Arts Foundation student art award ceremony Jun 5, 2009
Students from across Cape Cod were honored last week at the Comcast Art Scholarship T-Shirt Design Competition awards. The winning art will be featured on T-shirts worn by volunteers and others at this year's Pops by the Sea, set for Aug 2 in Hyannis. (Upper Cape Codder, MA)
Where celebrities go to get away Jun 5, 2009
Pitt sponsors the Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans, which solicits environmentally low-impact architecture designs. And together, they founded Make It Right, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to rebuilding the city post-Katrina. (MSNBC -- Travel)
UCSF's Diller Building better inside than out Jun 3, 2009
Vinoly is best known as a leader of the team that in 2003 finished second to Daniel Libeskind in the design competition to map the future of the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood - a rebuilding effort that since has proceeded about as smoothly as the search for Osama bin Laden. But he also presides over a large firm that makes lab buildings something of a trademark. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The School Desk is Going Eco-Friendly in a Time When Taking Sustainable Actions Will Make a Difference in the Students' Future May 31, 2009
QProducts announces that the QDesk, the first eco friendly school desk that offers students an important lesson for the future has been nominated for its innovative product design as a contestant in an international design competition taking place in Chicago, IL. The QDesk is manufactured using environmentally responsible practices with 100% recyclable polyethylene to improves the functionality of the standard school desk while promoting the environmental action at schools with the most basic... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Wood-stock for Marlborough students' handiwork May 30, 2009
New England Woodworking Design Competition coordinator Ken Hanson, a Marlborough High School teacher, shows a cabinet made by student Zachary DiMichaele ... About 10 high schools from across the region created 40 items for the sixth annual New England Student Woodworking Design Competition, held for the first time at Marlborough High School. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
Breastlight sheds light on breast health May 28, 2009
TORONTO, May 28 /CNW/ - A new handheld device provides Canadian women with an extra dimension in breast self-examinations. " A former breast cancer patient who had a mastectomy and breast reconstructive surgery, Dr Burnett is a firm supporter of breast self-examinations and of the role breastlight can play in helping women become more breast aware. "I believe that breast self-examinations can help women play a more active role in caring for their health, especially by becoming more attentive to,... (Canada Newswire)
Design Star' Jennifer Bertrand puts creativity to work in nursery May 28, 2009
The nursery is special, which you'd expect from the winner of a national design competition. The room contains a soothing palette of cream-colored walls with olive-green stripes. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
