Call for Entries: Student Design Competition 2024
The 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award honoree and the inspiration for this year’s Collab Student Design Competition is Naoto Fukasawa, a Japanese industrial designer known for his minimalist and functional approach to design. Fukasawa imbues everyday objects with a sense of harmony, often drawing inspiration from the natural world. He also designs with humanistic sensibilities.
His work spans a wide range of products, including furniture, lighting, electronics, and household appliances. He has collaborated with numerous brands worldwide. Fukasawa’s designs are celebrated for their restrained elegance, subtlety, simplicity, and intuitive usability, reflecting his philosophy that good design should go unnoticed, seamlessly integrating into the user’s life. His work is reductive yet seductive.
Cha Kettle designed by Naoto Fukasawa for Alessi, 2014
Design Brief
Create a tabletop piece (used for dinnerware, serve-ware, or tabletop accessories) for the physical world that addresses the design concepts in the work of Naoto Fukasawa.
Characteristics and inspiration must consider minimalist form and materials; user experience: functional and easy to use; a sense of delight and enjoyable to use; and elements of humanism
Submissions:
All work to be uploaded to Café system prior to entering.
Use this link to submit.
Student work due November 13, 2024
Here is a handy Help Guide and below are requirements:
11” x 17” full color high resolution graphic presentation
3-D image of design in context and scale (3 image max)
3-5 High Resolution images (300dpi) uploaded
300-word Word Document – max
Judging Criteria
1. Evidence of applied research and process
2. Originality and creativity of the concept
3. Ability to be manufactured
Announcement of Winners and Feedback session with judges will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 , 3:30 – 5 PM (EST) ; Zoom invite to precede.
Exhibition of Student Work
After the competition, a selection of the winning projects will be on published on the
Philadelphia Museum of Art website, Collab online journal, and displayed online through Collab/Philadelphia Museum of Art various social media platforms.
Prizes
First Prize: $800 | Second Prize: $500 | Third Prize: $300
Two Honorable Mentions: $200
All winners- Membership to the museum-1 year
Eligibility
Students submitting projects to the Collab Student Design Competition must be currently enrolled in a college or university, and be sponsored by a faculty member of same institution.
Agreement
By submitting an entry to this competition, the undersigned acknowledges that the work submitted is original and the intellectual property of the applicant. Collab and The Philadelphia Museum of Art claim no responsibility or accountability in any form whatsoever for any misrepresentations or other legally infringing matters of authorship.
Collab and The Philadelphia Museum of Art reserve the right to publish and/or reproduce images of all contest submissions, as well as event photographs or video footage in which the undersigned appears, in any publications or other media produced by or for the Museum for the purposes of advertising, promoting, illustration, or information. The undersigned also waives any right to approve any use of these photographs or video footage and releases the Museum and the photographer/videographer from any claims arising in connection with their use.