Just as every great city is unique, so too are the new Melbourne Design Awards, the first city of the City Design Awards project, created in partnership with the Design Institute of Australia: with cities New York, Paris, Stockholm and Beijing to follow. While entries to the Awards are open globally, each Awards event will celebrate and honour the unique design culture and identity of the city in which it is held – from the great cultural and design centres of the world to exciting, vibrant emerging hubs of technology and design.

Global Age-Friendly Design Awards 2010 (GADA 2010) invites students, design professionals, design firms and the general public to submit their ideas on products that can change and enhance the lifestyles of the elderly.

Selected teams will have three days and three nights to plan and realize their projects in response to missions assigned to them on take off day. Selected projects will remain on site permanently.
A professional jury will select a team to win the first prize.

 This is a Competition open to anyone from anywhere in the world who is interested in design for embroidery.

INDEX: calls for faculty, students, and recent graduates to participate in the upcoming INDEX: Design Challenge, developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF.

The INDEX: Design Challenge continues the legacy of the INDEX:│AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, in which hundreds of students from six continents participated. The theme of this second contest is Designing for Education.

“Look – at – me!” Celebrities seek attention at almost any price by flaunting their blingbling. At the same time the Yellow Press’ “Selling over Stars” engendered a quota-oriented style dictatorship. It is very clear: glamour is in fashion.

Language is not only a product of human life – it is a pre-requisite that humans require to form relationships. As a fundamental form of expression, language binds us together.
But not all languages are spoken. A language can be visual – made up of complex ideas of truth deeply rooted in symbols, custom and imagery. Mother Tongue is about the power of language – verbal and visual, formal and informal. First language. Native language. It honours languages at risk of being lost in our globalising society and those that have survived the forces of colonisation.

The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational, or higher education). The UCDA Design Competition for 2010 is now underway. UCDA is looking for your biggest and best ideas for our annual design competition — whether it be print, electronic, green, and even student work!

A call for papers for the first international Illustration Symposium in Cardiff, with Cardiff School of Art and Design at the Wales Millennium Centre and Chapter Arts.

Faces of Design is launching a new interdisciplinary competition to raise the visibility of hot design talent worldwide. The competition is based on participants’ existing portfolios, and culminates in the publication of a printed volume, showcasing the 25 most promising design talents, by design discipline (e.g. graphic design). This collection of profiles will be distributed to more than 1.000 key decision makers at more than 300 companies, including firms such as vitra, IKEA, the Richemont Group (including prestigious brands such as Montblanc, Cartier and Chloé), the design press, and designers’ studios such as the Campanas’ and Bouroullecs’.