For the first time in Puerto Rico, Designers, have the opportunity to exchange their ideas in one place, the Puerto Rico Design eXchange 2010. This is an open design competition for emergent professionals and students in six different categories. The PRDX2010 includes the following categories; Architecture, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design and Photography.

Design a poster that you believe can represent India globally. You can borrow from her rich cultural heritage to express visually her different aspects. Your poster could be iconic, symbolic or expressive. You are given the freedom to come up with your own metaphors that you feel can represent the nation.

There’s been a strong link in design between Switzerland and Italy since Max Huber, Carlo Vivarelli, Walter Ballmer et al crossed the Alps in the 1940s. It’s now the time to bring this collaboration full circle and celebrate the shared past, present and future of Swiss and Italian design. And that’s where you, young Swiss and Italian designers come in. To support the next generation of Swiss and Italian creative talent we’re running a competition for young designers to be exhibited and published alongside 22 of the best designers from both countries.

Posterheroes proposes a debate on future’s energetic policies, after the decision took by the Italian government to open a new nuclear season, interrupted by the 1987 referendum. The Italian issue opened a deliberation involving the whole international socio-economic and environmental situation. The contest represents a means of communication for young people, who may express their energetic opinions which may then be adopted for a sustainable future.

The Seventh Tehran International Animation Festival will be held from 6th to 10th March 2011 by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults.

World Kitchen seeks to spur innovative thinking and problem solving that will demonstrate the role of design as a core value for the Housewares industry. World Kitchen’s annual What’s Bubbling? International Design Competition explores and celebrates the role of food, its preparation and enjoyment, in today’s world.
The 2011 theme, “Kitchen Tools,” highlights the preparation, cooking, and serving of food with tools designed to suit the realities of 21st century living. Entrants are invited to explore new needs and opportunities in their cultural context to achieve innovation in both function and form. Entries will be evaluated based on the criteria, processes, and rules described in these Official Rules.

The Interior Innovation Award is one of the most prestigious awards of the furnishing sector world-wide and was launched in 2002 by imm cologne, which provides the idea behind the competition. The organiser is the German Design Council. Through this competition imm cologne and the German Design Council have succeeded in creating an effective tool for corporate positioning and product differentiation for the interior furnishings market. The Interior Innovation Award appraises top innovations in all product areas of this sector of industry. For the eighth time, furthermore, the Interior Innovation Award will be presented to three young designers who are new recruits to the profession, and whom the jury will select from the talent show D3 Contest 2011.

The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition was created in 2003 to promote environmental activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. Metropolis saw the need for a new type of competition, one that went beyond the usual beauty pageants for finished projects, a competition that would generate and reward ideas. Metropolis celebrates the next generation by rewarding imaginative young designers, be they employed by large companies, those striving with their own young firms or on their own, as well as students.

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and BMW Group DesignworksUSA are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st Annual Global Excellence Awards.
This worldwide design competition has been established to honor and celebrate outstanding originality and excellence in the creation of international interior design/architecture projects in ten (10) categories.

We are calling on all students studying fine arts and design to enter the international poster competition ‘Water is Life 2010/2011’.

The aim of the competition is not only to demonstrate that the younger generations are prepared to bear their share of the responsibility for our world but, first and foremost, to publicise the message that ‘Water is Life’ to a broad public by means of worldwide exhibitions.