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One of the most nail-biting moments of my life was seeing the 8 Finalists of 2010 Electrolux Design Lab explaining their projects to some very inquisitive judges. It is one thing to just submit concepts on paper for evaluation and another thing to defend your views, stand your ground and come out triumphant! This is what Electrolux Design Lab is all about, standing up for your convictions! The 2011 competition is looking for you to offer Intelligent Mobility solutions for cooking, storing food and cleaning up whilst using existing technologies.

This years brief comes out as a video message by Henrik Otto, Senior Vice President of Global Design at Electrolux. Have a look and get all geared up to enter the 2011 Electrolux Design Lab Competition.

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Entries Close: Sunday May 1, 2011, 23:59 (Central European Time), on the Electrolux Design Lab website.

What you win

• Eight finalists will each be invited to participate in a final event in the autumn of 2011 held within a European city (to be announced) to present their individual concept to a jury of expert designers.
• The event will be telecast live online!
• First prize of a six-month paid internship at an Electrolux global design centre and 5,000 Euros.
• Second prize of 3,000 Euros.
• Third prize of 2,000 Euros.

Design Brief

Electrolux Design Lab 2011 invites industrial design students to create home appliances that consider intelligent mobility. Your ideas will shape how people prepare and store food, clean and do their dishes, both within and beyond the home. In particular they seek a design concept that will offer personalization and inspires users whilst utilizing existing technology to offer support and guidance. Additionally, and in keeping with the heritage of Electrolux, your concept should reflect Scandinavian Design values being sensitive to the environment, providing intuitive ease of use and aesthetic appeal.

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Its all right to have a competitive streak in you if thats one of the reasons why you compete. However in the business of art and design most of the time it’s for the love of creativity and recognition that we seek such challenges. Art Stars Design Competition hosted by Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Laurenis an opportunity to show off your skills and hang out with mega mentors like Jasper Joffe, Alxone, & CASE in their studio for a week! You also get to take home a 1,000 commission prize with 500 for material costs. But the biggest draw is having your finished pieces exhibited in the worlds most important cities.

You can find competition details here, but be aware that February 4th is the last date for entry. So Hurry!

Rules:

Budding artists & designers in Belgium, Denmark, Dubai, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK are invited to create their own ART STAR.

• 16 winners will receive a commission based prize and the chance to be mentored by some of Europe’s top talent.
• A weeklong in-studio session with an ART STARS mentor.
• 1,000 commission prize, and 500 towards materials cost to create your ART STAR.
• ART STARS displayed in a storefront exhibition and an in-store event.

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Yanko design is proud to be the official Media Partner of iF Concept Design and the good news we have here is that iF Concept Design has extended its submission date. Now you students can submit your creative works until 22nd November 2010! More good news is in store, Besides showcasing the competition entries at the CeBIT Show 2011 in Hannover, a special prize with the title Hansgrohe Preis 2011: Efficient Water Design, Minimize Consumption, Maximize Emotion will be awarded to projects handling the resource water sustainably. This winner takes home an extra EUR 5,000 as well as an internship at Phoenix Design in Stuttgart, Germany.

Entries can be submitted in the following categories:

• product design / industrial design
• communication design / multimedia design
• fashion design
• architecture / interior design

The jury session will take place on 28 January 2011. A total prize of EUR 30,000 will be divided among the award winners.

This year Samsung Electronics (Seoul/South Korea), the CeBIT 2011 in Hannover (1-5th March), Hansgrohe AG (Schiltach/Germany), Volkswagen Design (Wolfsburg) and iFInternational Forum Design GmbH (Hannover/Germany) will sponsor young design talent and support the iF concept award as GOLD Sponsor.

Submissions: iF Concept Design 2011

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Socked! Well dont be, because this time the mocking is for a good reason. As a part of their competition procedure, Electrolux Design Lab finalists designs get fabricated as mock-ups and are displayed at the Electrolux Design Lab booth at the 100% Design London fair. Here is a look at how glossy and sleek these futuristic products can look in our homes. As sketches and renders, its difficult to judge how any product will adapt to its environment. Life-size replicas give us a peek at how they will look at home. The engineering and technology bit has been left out for the moment, but then thats what R&D is there forwell let the techies worry about the workings while we celebrate Product Design!

Watch Webcast Of Electrolux Design Lab @ 100% Design London Here.

Electrolux Bio Robot Refrigerator by Yuriy Dmitriev

Dismount Washer by Lichen Guo

Snail Micro Induction Cooker by Peter Alwin

Elements Modular Kitchen by Mathew Gilbride

Clean Closet by Michael Edenius

Kitchen Hideaway by Daniel Dobrogorsky

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Yanko Design is out on the field for you and our stars Long Tran & Richard Yang will be reporting the Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Results LIVE from Earls Court, London! Expect a lot of live updates, interviews, videos and pictures on our Twitter, Vimeo and Facebook Channels. Bookmark them and stay tuned from the 23rd September to 26th September for the news and views! The Design Lab will also be streaming a live feed of the events here, and just to remind you, in case you havent picked your favourite design concept, the voting is still open. Stay Tuned for More!

If you are visiting the 100% London Design Fair, look out for Long and Richard at the Electrolux Design Lab Booth, you’ll find them there!

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All eyes are trained at Earls Court, London for the announcement of the winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Competition. However there is a slight hitch and the folks at Electrolux are looking towards you for some help. An august jury has been assigned to pick the winner, but EDL believes in democracy as well. They want You the People to vote for your favorite project. The winner of the Peoples Choice will hold value in the eyes of the jury and hence democracy gets to smile! So hurry and cast your vote for Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Peoples Choice – here is a recap of the 8 projects in videos!

External Refrigerator by Nicolas Hubert

Dismount Washer by Lichen Guo

Bio Robot Refrigerator by Yuriy Dmitriev

Eco Cleaner by Ahi Andy Mohsen

Clean Closet by Michael Edenius

Elements Modular Kitchen by Matthew Gilbride

The Snail by Peter Alwin

The Kitchen Hideaway by Daniel Dobrogorsky

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We have been tracking the Top 25 of Electrolux Design Lab entries here on YD and now its time to reveal the Final Eight. The booty at the end of the rainbow for the deserving winner will be 5000 Euros and a six-month paid internship at the Electrolux Global Design Center. Every young designer who is just starting out knows that adding this internship to his resume is going to carry a lot of weight. While I wish all the 8 finalists best of luck, Id also like to remind the YD readers that Ive written in detail about 4 of these designs earlier, and pretty soon Ill be covering the rest, just to know your views. Those of you who missed the CNN Coverage can view it on the Yanko Design Facebook Page.

The Snail – Micro Induction Heating by Peter Alwin

The Kitchen Hideaway by Daniel Dobrogorsky

External Refrigerator by Nicolas Hubert

Dismount Washer- Wash & Go Laundry by Lichen Guo

Eco Cleaner by Ahi Andy Mohsen

Elements Modular Kitchen by Mathew Gilbride

Clean Closet by Michael Edenius

Bio Robot Refrigerator byYuriy Dmitriev

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Who loves houses? Everyone. Everyone loves at least the idea of living inside their very own abode. Thusly, since I think you know that everyone also loved competitions, it’s always a fun time to look at the results of a housing design competition. Here’s one! This one’s held yearly by D3 and is called “Housing Tomorrow.” We’ve got the top five concepts right here, all of them housing, all of them hot, all of them architecture-tastic.

Seriously get your love eyeballs out because this competition calls for architects, designers, engineers, and students to bust out their dogs and apply their brains to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. Make it awesome.

Designers: Entrants into D3 Housing Tomorrow 2010

First Prize: Home Spun: Water Harvesting Prefab Urban Housing for the Great Lakes Region by Liminal Projects, USA This project employs concepts from the Small House Movement which attempts to minimize the ecological impact homes have on the Earth by making them really small. This particular set of houses is constructed of lightweight carbon fiber and is capable of harvesting, storing, and processing water from rain and snow. Also they look like giant barrels, a look which has grown on me VERY quickly.

Second Prize: Hongquiao Station: Living within the Shanghai Subway System by Rafael Luna, USA A very complex project that basically boils down to reacting to the fact that about 50% of the world’s population living in cities. Through the subway system connecting with food, shopping, and entertainment systems, a singular structural logic is created with a flexible infrastructure in mind. Wild, yes?

Third Prize: Smallness: Rescripting Collective Housing in Shenzhen by Qili Yang, China Similar to the second prize project, this “Smallness” project focuses on urban density, studying specifically Da-xin Village, a natural town center in Shenzhen, China. To develop the area without neglecting the existing urban context, this project adds 30 percent more livable area, expanding the floor ratio from 2.7 to 3.6 at the site.

Special Mention – High-Density Housing: Double Stuff by Richie Gelles & Viktor Ramos, USA More mega-housing, this time lifting it up on some transparent legs so as to not make it look as terrible as modern skyscrapers. Go go awesome architecture!

Special Mention – Medium Density Housing: Eco-Chrysalis for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne by Paul Jones, UK Very similar (in a transparent way) to the other “special mention” project, this is an upward-looking housing structure that’s a lot more gorgeous than our everyday block-square apartment buildings.

Check out the rest of the entries at http://www.d3space.org/.

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