The AIA|LA’s Restaurant Design Awards (RDA) honor excellence in restaurant design. The competition is open to all individuals and practices with both restaurant owners and architects/designers invited to submit. Either the project itself must be located in the United States or the submitting individual/firm must be US-based. Submissions are accepted in three main categories: restaurants, cafés/bars and lounges/nightclubs.

The challenge: design something that solves a problem

Young designers and engineers are brimming with creative ideas to change the world – it’s this ability to think differently that the James Dyson Award celebrates and encourages.

Do you have a secretly scribbled design, a flash of inspiration or some untapped talent? Then enter the Present Time DESIGN CONTEST 2010, launched to give creativity the platform it deserves. The winning design will be produced as part of one of the brands of Present Time, with YOUR NAME listed on the packaging as the signature designer. Naturally, you will get an official contract and receive a royalty!

Exceptional environmental graphic design is recognized in the annual SEGD Design Awards Program, illustrating the pandisciplinary nature of visual communications in the built environment. Winning projects have included complex wayfinding systems, branding and identity work, retail and interior projects, exhibition design, and public art installations.

Awards are conferred by multidisciplinary, international juries.  

What do you get when you combine forward-thinking designers & architects with the leading manufacturers of tile? Why don’t you show us? The Italian Trade Commission and Confindustria Ceramica, the Association of Italian Ceramics, are proud to announce the 2010 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition Call for Entries.

Modern Painters magazine and Louise Blouin Media are inviting designers from around the world to participate in the inaugural Re:VISION Design Award. The first prize is ten thousand dollars (US).
 

D&AD makes a difference... Our awards programme is embedded in curriculums in over 1,000 colleges and courses around the world

The D&AD Student Awards programme is, in essence, the design and advertising communities award for those looking to break into the industry.

Good design determines how well products, spaces, and systems work from the beginning. We think that great design ideas can make things work even better. One Design Fix for the Future challenges you to prove us right—whether you are an architect, interior designer, product designer, landscape designer, graphic designer, communication designer. We’re looking for ONE design fix you can make now in your designed environment—the products you use, your home, your workplace, your city, or any commercial application—that, in scale or as inspiration, can improve our future.

The young gerneration contest "lebens(t)räume" (dreams for life) is being organized since 2004 by Vincentz Network, in collaboration with the "universal design GmbH" and "organized by iF". It aims at young people to design for the older generations as well as for disabled people.

Under the title “sit and wait,” Heimtextil’s focus for 2010 will be on the design of seating furniture for waiting areas: whether in public areas – counter areas, train stations or airports – or in traditional waiting areas in the health & care segment, nobody likes to wait, and many people frequently consider this time “lost.” The “experienced” waiting time is mainly characterized by the circumstances of waiting; and the atmosphere of waiting is a crucial factor for visitors and customers when deciding whether they wish to return to the waiting area.