International Design Competition: Playable 2010 invites designers of all types from around the world to design playground equipment and spaces that will give a sense of place, wonder and fun so strong that they will entice children, teens and adults outdoors to play. Winners will be selected by a diverse jury that will be announced in mid-2010.

dezeen and Organisation in Design are giving away a 25qm exhibition space at Ventura Lambrate in Milan during the Salone del Mobile 2010.

Electrolux Design Lab 2010 invites global undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces. Your ideas will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050 when 74%* of the world’s population are predicted to live in an urban environment.

The 22nd Biennial of Industrial Design will be a comparative international design exhibition at which the best design works will be presented.

An international Selection Comittee composed of experts from various areas of design, will choose the works that will be exhibited.

A jury will then choose the award winners from among those works that are exhibited.

LIA was the first comprehensive award of its kind, established in London, to accept all media and executions from all over the world to be judged by a truly diverse international jury, comprised of the most talented, recognised and awarded individuals. Each year, it is the commitment to the integrity of the judging process and the contributions of the Jury Presidents that bolster and uphold LIA's tradition of awarding only the most inspirational ideas.

This ideas competition is organized within the framework of the Programme for Transnational Cooperation Slovakia – Austria 2007–2013, a project that aims at finding innovative solutions for Europe to become a more socially attractive and ecologically sustainable environment. The competition is open to entrants living in the European Union and looks for unrealized ideas and designs involving waste products (re-use design) that will be presented to the public and offered to companies active in the socioeconomic field in order to be eventually implemented.

The motto of Seoul International Design Competition 2010 envisions the realization of an egalitarian society and human values through design proposals that are easy, convenient, and pleasant to use. Especially in the environment of a contemporary city, as well as product and space, the importance of communication is rapidly increasing (most of it is based on digital technology), and design can bring convenience, safety, equality and pleasure to citizens through establishing a new order between components constituting a city.

The Design Institute of Australia’s Australasian Student Design Awards (ASDA) fosters the future of Sustainable Design practice by rewarding the region’s best emerging designers. As the foremost student design awards, the ASDA multidisciplinary program attracts an exceptional range, depth and quality of entries.

The Northern Design Competition was developed to raise the profile of design talent in the North, by highlighting opportunities to employers and students. It is a competition that rewards talented students across the north of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for their work in the creative arts.

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.