Our friends at SHIFT have put out a call for entries for their annual DOTMOV digital film festival with entries due in September. An international slate of judges includes members of Feed Deutschland, Sugercube, Salmagazine, C505, Motion Theory, and The Designers Republic, and selected works are shown in multiple screenings.
Portland Spaces’ Root Awards will honor work by Portland architects, builders, interior designers, landscape designers, craftspeople in an ambitious, exhaustive, exhausting list of categories. Considering this is Year One for what amounts to All Portland Design All-Stars awards, it’s verging on crazy to include this many categories, a gigantic undertaking. Good news is that it throws the doors wide open for a million-and-one projects to be considered for “design, craftsmanship, and sustainability” by a national panel of judges including Karrie Jacobs, Katherine Lambert, Iris Harrell, and Dennis Allen.
This is not just provincial backpatting. Awards are news, giving more publications from beyond PDX good reasons to consider Portland design in their pages. The side benefits include more conversation within Portland about issues around good design as well as who’s doing what.
For the multiple other categories under the umbrella of “Design In The Streets,” appreciators and noticers of design are invited to send in photos of the “original” and the “beautiful” in Portland for possible inclusion in the magazine’s “tour of creativity” in Portland, from bus stop to front porch to topiary.
Submissions are open for work completed in the past three years and winners will be honored at a little party and in the Nov/Dec 08 issue of the mag. See The Root Awards website for entry details.
Proceeds will benefit a new series of scholarships in the study of design and construction in an excellent bit of loop-closing.
Deadline is July 14 2008. Win one for the home team.
design: Nina Rosen, Nina Perrera Handbags, finalist 2007 Independent Handbag Designer Awards
To all of you Rocky Balboa’s in accessories design, here’s a competition for you. Website Handbag Designer 101 has opened submissions for its Second Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards™. There isn’t a monetary prize, but the overall winner gets a free booth at the WWDMAGIC Accessories Show in Vegas in August ($6000) and finalists can offer their bags on the website Bag, Borrow, or Steal and will have their work displayed in a window at Henri Bendel.
The website provides detailed requirements for each of the following categories of the competition: Best Student Made Handbag, Best Handmade Handbag, Most Socially Responsible Handbag, Best Green Handbag, Audience-Selected Handbag, Best Handbag in Overall Style & Design. There is no application fee, and entry is as simple as uploading a jpeg of your design. Deadline for entries is 11:59 on April 18.
Our friends at Shift magazine have launched a call for design submissions for a new Shift logo. “Shift was redesigned in 2007 commemorating its 10th anniversary. And now 2008, we call for public entries for the Shift Logo Design, seeking further development for next 10 years.” The deadline is March 15. PDX represent.