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.

We are one of the world's leading manufacturers of moulded wood. More than a mere material, moulded wood is a medium that has helped form the history of furniture design. Its robust flexibility, enormous tensile force, rigidity and its thermoformability in particular have all contributed to its importance.

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.

All design students or designers can take part in this competition, with no age restriction.

The Taiwan International Design Competition (TIDC) is entering its ninth consecutive year. In the nine years of its existence it has already cultivated an extensive international reputation.

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.

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.

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.

"Spark celebrates the best in dazzling design - from architecture and products to the bravest digital work, and we've already received a great wave of summer submissions," explains Peter Kuchnicki, executive director of Spark Awards. "But we want more - things that blow existing solutions apart, by people who see problems with completely new eyes."

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!