Student Information: categories, prizes, briefs, entries and legals
Categories & prizes
Categories
Entries to the Interior Motives Student Design Awards 2009 were made in these 8 categories:
- Best innovation
- Best use of technology
- Best safety innovation
- Best production interior
- Best conceptual interior
- Best lifestyle interior
- Best eco design concept
- Best conceptual exterior
Each of the category winners will receive a trophy and a cheque for $500.
** entries in the exterior category must have also included an interior design solution.
Prizes
The single overall Interior Motives Student Designer of the Year, who will already be a category winner, will receive a trophy and a cheque for $5,000.
Finalists of the Interior Motives Student Design Awards 2009 will be invited to the Awards ceremony on 16 September 2009 for the announcement of the winners. They will also be invited to bring a guest.
Design briefs
The theme of this year's Interior Motives Design Awards is 'Sustainable and Clever'
Within this overall 2009 theme, students were tasked with matching one of the following four briefs. Entries included illustrations and a written explanation of how the design worked or met the brief.
Chinese car 2.0: Create a next-generation vehicle designed specifically to serve the needs of young, design-aware Chinese consumers. Think about the growing population shift from the country to megacities, and about the kind of personal transportation that suits such a lifestyle. Also consider the incredible and unique cultural heritage of a country like China - how can this be used to make a global design statement?
Inside out: Design a true dual-purpose interior, one whose major components can be removed and used for a variety of functions outside of the vehicle - in the home, at the office, in the parking lot or the countryside. Take modular design to the next level.
HMI 2.0: While the interfaces that connect us with our computers, cell phones and portable music players continue to adapt and develop at speed, the interface in our car is left rooted firmly in the 20th century. Develop a new kind of HMI that taps into the latest technologies - drive-by-wire, gesture, iris and voice recognition, for example - and use it to create a new kind of driving experience.
Global car for a global crisis: National economies are in meltdown, growth is in freefall and pressure is increasing on car manufacturers to come up with sustainable solutions to combat climate change. Develop a new kind of global car that's suited to the unpredictable financial and physical climate ahead, paying close attention to cost of ownership, versatility and carbon footprint.
The Interior Motives Design Awards 2009 competition has been open to students enrolled in a college or university level design programme (either undergraduate or graduate) anywhere in the world. Entries have now closed.
Along with transportation and product design, entries from students studying fashion, textile and other design courses, as well as those studying design engineering and architecture, are encouraged.
Individuals not enrolled in an accredited undergraduate or graduate degree course at a college or university are not eligible. All projects must have been designed/completed during the 2008-09 academic year.
Individual or group entries:
- Individuals and groups (with a maximum of three members) were eligible.
- For group entries, the three participating members must have been named one nominated as leader and point of contact. The group leader was responsible for sharing winnings with the group should a prize have been awarded.
- To verify that entrants are bona fide students, the name, email address and contact telephone number for the head of department at the student's college was required.
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