HOW International Design Awards

HOW International Design Awards

HOW Magazine announced the 2008 International Design Awards - enter your work and join the ranks of award-winning designers from around the world. One Best of Show winner will score a free trip to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and an award to be presented at the conference. Work must have been created between Jan. 1, 2007 and Sept.1, 2008. Deadline is September 15, 2008.

To enter competition PRESS HERE.

How to enter

Send 2 well-protected samples. No slides or digital images please. Type or print the Entry Form completely. This information will be reproduced in the magazine exactly as submitted if you are selected as a winner. Credit all persons involved in the creation of the piece. HOW isn’t responsible for incorrect, illegible or incomplete credit information. Describe the objective and the results of your entry in 100 words or less and include the description with the Entry Form (optional but strongly suggested). Securely attach a copy of the Entry Form to the back of each sample of your entry. Include 2 copies of the Payment Form with your payment.

The Categories Designs may be entered in more than one category.

Submit a separate entry and payment for each category.
annual reports
brochures/catalogs/flyers
covers/jackets (magazines, books, etc.)
editorial (magazines and book spreads or total format)
environmental graphics
illustration/photography
invitations/announcements/greeting cards
letterhead/identity
logos
miscellaneous (style guides, menus, complex promos, etc.)
packaging (consumer goods, CDs, etc.)
posters
print advertising
student work
3D objects (gifts, wearables, calendars, 3D promos, etc.)

Good luck to everyone!

X tray herb pots by Vitamin Living

I was just passing by furniture store and I noticed postcard with this herb pot... it's summer...so only healthy lifestyle is on my mind... I love this herb pots. I could grow my wheatgrass or sprouts maybe....
You can buy those pots at http://www.vitaminliving.com.
It's a set of 5 ceramic pots. The pots can be configured in several ways, including an "X" shape or in a straight line or in an "L" shape. The pots are good for growing a range of herbs, plants or wheatgrass.

Marshmellow sofa by George Nelson

George Nelson, 1956

Here is one more design of the 2oth century.
Nelson's design transformed the traditional sofa into a three-dimensional pattern consisting of 18 brightly-coloured sections of upholstery, supported by a simple steel structure. This unusual shape and construction make Marshmallow Sofa one of design history's more unusual sofas. An extension element consisting of six individual cushions can be mounted between two sofas, allowing sofa to be extended as required. Available from Vitra.

Loft Cube by Werner Aisslinger

This Loft Cube mobile home can be placed on the rooftop of any building or anywhere you want. The Loft cube designed by German industrial designer Werner Aisslinger.

The Loft Cube can be customized to your taste. It's small mobile living space which can be brought by helicopter or by crane... This Loft Cube can have 39 or 55 sq.meters of living space can be installed in 2 to 4 days. Price 89 000 to 144 000 euro. You should see this website www.loftcube.net for more information.

Eero Aarnio ball chair

Design by Eero Aarnio, 1963.
Fiberglass shell, upholstery.
Made in Finland by Adelta.

The Ball Chair was designed by using one of the most simple geometric forms: the ball. By lopping off one end and fixing it at one point Eero Aarnio comes to a remarkable result - a supremely unconventional chair. A Ball Chair is a 'room within a room' with a cozy and calm atmosphere, protected from outside noises it provides a private space for relaxing or a phone call.
The ball chair is something between a piece of furniture and a piece of architecture and at the same time embodies both the mobile and the established. I always wanted one of them. You can find them for sale at www.hivemodern.com

Jurgen Bey and his "dutch pieces"

Today I bought a book for my friend. It's called Designers on Design by Terence Conran and Max Fraser. Very nice book - suggested to everyone who loves design. Very illustrated book with questions for designers about design.

So flicking through the book I really liked those chairs by Jurgen Bey (Netherlands designer). Dutch pieces designed for Interpolis in 2002.

They are a bit exaggerated but that's what makes them so special and unusual. Amazing concept. For more go to http://www.jurgenbey.nl/

World's Most Expensive Home.The World's First Billion-Dollar Home

The World's First Billion-Dollar Home is to be owned by Albani family.They hired architecture firms Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind the Mandarin Oriental, based in Dallas and Los Angeles.

Plans were then drawn up for what will be the world's largest and most expensive home: a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai with a cost nearing $2 billion with 700000 sq. foot of floor area.

The architects and designers are creating as they go, altering floor plans, design elements and concepts as the building is constructed. To read more go to Forbes.com