11 Feb 2009

Brabantia launches design competition

Household products specialist Brabantia has launched a design competition called Iron in Style. This gives creative types an opportunity help brighten the lives of ironers who may be fed-up with looking at the same old grey board day after day.

The overall winner will receive 2,500 of Brabantia products and will have the satisfaction of seeing their design go into production and on sale around the world in 2009.

The competition is open to anyone from professional designers to gifted amateurs who know a pretty board when they see one. Entry instructions may be found via the website at www.ironinstyle.co.uk. Along with the main prize there are up to 15 prizes for designers in the UK alone.

Brabantia is keen to tap into the current trend for product personalisation and says it is counting on the creative spirit™ of entrants to come up with a winning design. The competition will run for three months from 30 January to 30 April 2009.

Bicycle Rack Design Competition

Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti, in partnership with the Bike Writers Collective and the support of the Hollywood Project Area of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, is sponsoring a competition for a unique bicycle rack for the East Hollywood community.

This project seeks to add visual appeal and transportation amenity to its vibrant East Hollywood streetscape along Hollywood Boulevard between Western Avenue and Vermont Avenue.

The City of Los Angeles welcomes the creative energy of the greater community to assist in the creation of this important element of street furniture - the bicycle rack.

The winning design will receive $2,000.

This competition is open to all artists and designers living in Los Angeles County.

Deadline is Friday, March 6, 2009.