2008 Next Generation® Design Competition


+ Metropolis Magazine has announced; Call for Entries, for it's 5th Annual "Next Generation Design Competition." The Next Generation Design Competition is open to designers as well as design students; who are allowed to submit Up to three submission "Under, any of Six Sub-Categories including Graphic Design", whether they are participating as individual OR team of collaborators. A nominal fee of $75 will be charged for each entry submission. Metropolis Magazine is offering a prize of $10,000 to the winner and; Is intended to support designers whose entries reflect considerations of sustainability, distribution and manufacturing systems, economy, current technologies and materials, function, and provocative form and can speak to any one of the 6 sub-disciplines supported by the magazine—product design, "Graphic Design", architecture, urban planning, landscape design and interior design.
The 2008 Next Generation® Design Competition focuses on "WATER". In a world of killer floods and rising tides, potable water is a finite resource. Metropolis Says; "We call on your innovative design solutions at all scales and sizes—products, interiors, buildings, landscapes, communication systems, or anything else you’ve dreamed up—for handling this most precious and most threatened natural resource. The time for new thinking on water is now." - WHAT’S YOUR SOLUTION? All entries must be submitted electronically via online submission form, by January 4, 2008. The winner will be featured in the May 2008 issue of Metropolis magazine and on Metropolis Magazine website at metropolismag.com.
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