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The Early Bird Registrations for the Red Dot Product Design Awards 2011 were closed on 3rd December 2010, however there’s time.Regular Registrations are still open for the procrastinators until 21st January 2011. Id love for a YD reader to win the coveted Red Dot and we’ll celebrate together! After all we are Red Dot Design Awards’ Media Partners! Just so you know, all you designers are winners to us, so champys for everyone!

Regular Registrations: 21st January 2011
Latecomer: 9th February 2011

Product Categories: 18 categories to choose from, including Living rooms and bedrooms, Households and kitchens, Bathrooms, spa and air-conditioning; check here for the entire list.

Complete Information is available here.

Source:yankodesign.com

The Wax-on is a solid ink printer that simplifies the process of printing. It removes the need of producing plastic waste and annoyance of using ink jet cartridges. The minimal design ensures less use of desk-space and its vertical orientation works perfect with the printing disposition. The concept challenges the future of printing and takes advantage of new advancements in wax ink printing and sustainability.

Designer: Faris Elmasu

Source:yankodesign.com

Printers are necessary evils, your office cant function without them and they occupy too much of space! Maybe this is why concept designers are playing with the formlike we saw this L-shaped printer almost two years ago, and presently this re-defined Hanging Printer by Jaesik Heo. The refinements come in the form of printer placement and additional bucket space to hold the paper. Pretty neat actually, only if the manufacturers will listen to us!

Designer: Jaesik Heo

Source:yankodesign.com

UPDATE: What are you doing this weekend? Only 3 days left to enter!

ZINK Imaging is asking the design community for new “solutions” and applications (not new form factors for existing products etc.) that enable and enhance printing with the ZINK Technology. Essentially, its about the whole design solution, not just the fit and finish. If you think you got it in you to provide a super solution; then enter ZINK Imaging’s Zero Boundaries Design Competition.

The contest is open to established design firms, emerging designers, and students of design. As ZINK puts it, The design challenge is to re-imagine printing and its role in the digital world using the ZINK Technology to fuel the future possibilities of this unique technology platform.

Registrations are open NOW and the Design Submissions are due on June 8th 2009. The Finalists will be announced on June 22nd and the Winners take home the booty by June 29th 2009.

What are the awards?

First place – Option 1 – $10,000 cash prize
First place – Option 2 – $10,000 cash prize
Second place – Both Options – $1,000 each
Third place – Both Options – $500 each

There are many rules and info that you need to go through before you register, but lemme highlight a couple of them for you.

- Participants can submit multiple entries AND win multiple prizes.

- A fresh perspective on printing is desired; a global perspective from both students and professionals that explores printing possibilities beyond the traditional thinking about how and where printing integrates into a person’s life.

- Entrants are challenged to design a complete ZINK-enabled product “ecosystem” that demonstrates the power of the ZINK Technology to link the digital world to the real world via a tangible ZINK Print. Entrants have two ways they can solve this challenge: 1) by creating a ZINK ecosystem that will make today’s youth crave ZINK products in the context of their digital and mobile world or 2) by creating a “ZINK World” in a context or market of their choice.

For complete details head here and here.

All the best!

UPDATE: June 8th is the LAST DAY for Submissions; 4 days left.

ZINK Imaging is asking the design community for new “solutions” and applications (not new form factors for existing products etc.) that enable and enhance printing with the ZINK Technology. Essentially, its about the whole design solution, not just the fit and finish. If you think you got it in you to provide a super solution; then enter ZINK Imaging’s Zero Boundaries Design Competition.

Roughly one week left before the contest closes and the first 50 submissions received by June 1 will receive a free ZINK-enabled product and ZINK Paper supply. Cool!

The contest is open to established design firms, emerging designers, and students of design. As ZINK puts it, The design challenge is to re-imagine printing and its role in the digital world using the ZINK Technology to fuel the future possibilities of this unique technology platform.

Registrations are open NOW and the Design Submissions are due on June 8th 2009. The Finalists will be announced on June 22nd and the Winners take home the booty by June 29th 2009.

What are the awards?

First place – Option 1 – $10,000 cash prize
First place – Option 2 – $10,000 cash prize
Second place – Both Options – $1,000 each
Third place – Both Options – $500 each

There are many rules and info that you need to go through before you register, but lemme highlight a couple of them for you.

- Participants can submit multiple entries AND win multiple prizes.

- A fresh perspective on printing is desired; a global perspective from both students and professionals that explores printing possibilities beyond the traditional thinking about how and where printing integrates into a person’s life.

- Entrants are challenged to design a complete ZINK-enabled product “ecosystem” that demonstrates the power of the ZINK Technology to link the digital world to the real world via a tangible ZINK Print. Entrants have two ways they can solve this challenge: 1) by creating a ZINK ecosystem that will make today’s youth crave ZINK products in the context of their digital and mobile world or 2) by creating a “ZINK World” in a context or market of their choice.

For complete details head here and here.

All the best!

UPDATE: June 8th is the LAST DAY for Submissions; 4 days left.

ZINK Imaging is asking the design community for new “solutions” and applications (not new form factors for existing products etc.) that enable and enhance printing with the ZINK Technology. Essentially, its about the whole design solution, not just the fit and finish. If you think you got it in you to provide a super solution; then enter ZINK Imaging’s Zero Boundaries Design Competition.

Roughly one week left before the contest closes and the first 50 submissions received by June 1 will receive a free ZINK-enabled product and ZINK Paper supply. Cool!

The contest is open to established design firms, emerging designers, and students of design. As ZINK puts it, The design challenge is to re-imagine printing and its role in the digital world using the ZINK Technology to fuel the future possibilities of this unique technology platform.

Registrations are open NOW and the Design Submissions are due on June 8th 2009. The Finalists will be announced on June 22nd and the Winners take home the booty by June 29th 2009.

What are the awards?

First place – Option 1 – $10,000 cash prize
First place – Option 2 – $10,000 cash prize
Second place – Both Options – $1,000 each
Third place – Both Options – $500 each

There are many rules and info that you need to go through before you register, but lemme highlight a couple of them for you.

- Participants can submit multiple entries AND win multiple prizes.

- A fresh perspective on printing is desired; a global perspective from both students and professionals that explores printing possibilities beyond the traditional thinking about how and where printing integrates into a person’s life.

- Entrants are challenged to design a complete ZINK-enabled product “ecosystem” that demonstrates the power of the ZINK Technology to link the digital world to the real world via a tangible ZINK Print. Entrants have two ways they can solve this challenge: 1) by creating a ZINK ecosystem that will make today’s youth crave ZINK products in the context of their digital and mobile world or 2) by creating a “ZINK World” in a context or market of their choice.

For complete details head here and here.

All the best!