Competiton | DCI ABWxD Product Challenge
A Better World by Design and Décor Craft Inc (DCI) come together to bring you the annual DCI Product Design Challenge, now open for submissions! A Better World by Design and DCI encourage participants from any field or background to submit their concepts for consideration. The 2012 competition asks participants to tackle this challenge: In [...]
Heineken | Ideas Brewery
Heineken Ideas Brewery is hosting a challenge to find sustainable ideas in the future of beer packaging. They are looking for ideas and solutions that address re-using and re-cycling of packing, discovering new packaging materials, as well as transport. Click here or the image below to check out the challenge. The final phase of the [...]
Maharam STEAM Fellowship | $5000!
$5000 fellowships! Apply for a Maharam STEAM Fellowship for the Advancement of the Arts and Design in Government Supporting summer internships with governmental or nonprofit organizations Thanks to the generosity of textile producer Maharam, RISD will provide stipends to as many as 10 RISD students (undergraduate or graduate) who propose a summer internship in the [...]
Competition | Make it Real Challenge
Instructables is currently hosting the Make it Real Challenge and giving away a $50,000 Objet 3D Printer as the grand prize, and 10 Up! Personal 3D Printers to second place winners. To enter, post an Instructable that shows how to turn a virtual item into a tangible object. Examples include: 3D printed objects, laser-cut files, [...]
Competition | DCI Challenge 2012
A Better World by Design and Décor Craft Inc (DCI) come together to bring you the annual DCI Product Design Challenge, now open for submissions! A Better World by Design and DCI encourage participants from any field or background to submit their concepts for consideration. The 2012 competition asks participants to tackle this challenge: In today’s [...]
Competition | Live/Work Design Contest
Dwell just launched their Live/Work Design Contest and is open until March 31st! Check out the prompt below and click the image below to submit. Do you have a design idea that’s destined to be a future live/work staple? We teamed up with the go-to source for modern classics, Design Within Reach, to mix business [...]
Submit | Collabustration!
The Illustration department would like to invite everyone to contribute to Collabustration! Collabustration is a juried show, and a tradition in RISD’s Illustration department. It is an opportunity for students to collaborate and create work together. The only requirement is that one Illustration senior must contribute to the piece. All majors and years are welcome! [...]
Updated: 2012 IDEA Awards
The 2012 IDEA Awards have just opened up for submissions today and will be open until February. Click the image below to find more information and submit! Posted by Carly Ayres | Date Posted: 01 December, 2011
RI Business Plan Competition 2012
Ready, Set, Pitch The below competition is reposted from the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition 2010 invitation. Dec. 7 is the date for this year’s Elevator Pitch Contest in which participants will present their business ideas in 90 seconds and receive immediate feedback from top, business-building experts — plus a chance to win some of [...]
2011 Design*Sponge Scholarship
Illustration by RISD Alumni Julia Rothman Today the 2011 Design*Sponge Scholarship went live on the online blog. Last year’s winner was none other that RISD Furniture Alumni, Misha Kahn, so it would be great to have more RISD submissions (particularly Industrial Design) this year! Below is the prompt from Design*Sponge. “Today I am thrilled to [...]
Jackson Seidenberg | IDSA Student Merit Award Winner
With three days counting, the Industrial Design Society of America’s Northeast District Conference will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday on RISD’s campus. One of several enticing events taking place of the course of the two-day event is the Northeast Student Merit Award Presentations, which is taking place on Saturday at 11:30 am [...]
2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge
The 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is now open and accepting submissions for innovative ways to improve the tools and technology used to managed diabetes. There will be three Grand Prizes of $7,000 plus a consultation with IDEO, a complimentary pass to this fall’s Health 2.0 conference, and expert help as appropriate. For more information [...]
Victorinox Swiss Army | Time to Care
Victorinox – Makers of the Original Swiss Army Knife and Victorinox Swiss Army Timepieces is launching an initiative based on its core values of 127 years — innovation & sustainability Victorinox wants to help YOU — a next-generation designer/ innovator realize your vision. The best 10 sustainable design projects will be promoted around the world. [...]
Wedgwood Design Competition
Posted by Isaac Blankensmith | Date Posted: 10 January, 2011 OBJECTIVE: The objective is to explore a celebration and how you celebrate it? What are you serving and what are you serving it on? Design the essential serving pieces to make your party a big success. PARTICIPANTS: F.I.T, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, RULES: All submissions must be [...]
Decor Craft Inc. Consumer Product Challenge 2011
Decor Craft Inc. (DCI) wants your help in designing the next sustainable consumer product! The design competition aims to inspire innovators from multidisciplinary backgrounds to create a tangible consumer product. 1. Research the problem of consumer waste. 2. Think of consumer products that can solve the problem. 3. Design a product to solve the problem. [...]