seoul international design competition

Objective
The "Design for All" objective is made to increase the efforts and the pursuit of design production that can be shared by all, removing emotional and physical barriers by becoming an universal communicative social solution.
Entries may be submitted to the following categories:

• Product for All
  
  
  • Product
  • System
  • Fashion
  • Craft
• Communication for All
  
  
  • Graphic
  • Advertisement
  • Moving Image
  • Animation
• Space for All
  
  
  • Interior
  • Environmental Design
  • Architecture

Please read the official Call for Entries for complete details.

Prizes
The total prize money of Seoul Design Competition 2010 amounts to US $26,000 certification and prize money awarded by the mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government and special benefits for those who are awarded with golden and silver haechi prizes (within US $3,000 for individual/team including grants for overseas training for korean winners and invitation to the awards ceremony in Seoul for international winners).

• Golden Haechi prize: one winner, US $10,000
• Silver Haechi prize: three winners, US $2,000 each
• Bronze Haechi prize: five winners, US $1,000 each
• Iron Haechi prize: max. ten winners, US $500 each
• Honorable mention: within two hundred people, certification for each
• People's choice awards: twenty winners, certification for each

The winning submissions will be exhibited during the exhibition period of Seoul Design Fair 2010 from 17 September to 7 October 2010.
The award ceremony of Seoul Design Fair 2010 will take place on 7 October 2010 at Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul Metropolitan City, Republic of South Korea.

http://sdf.seoul.go.kr/eng/ 

Excellent Swedish Design

Excellent Swedish Design (Utmärkt Svensk Form) was a design award handed out by the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design (Svensk Form) 1983-2002

In the early 1980s, the opportunities for designers in Sweden were scarce. Few companies had realized the importance of consulting a designer. The chairman of the designers section of Svensk Form, Hans-Christer Ericson, then presented the idea of a design prize, to be awarded to various professional design organizations and their producers. In 1983 the first jury presented their choice, and after that the prize was handed out every year until 2002. The graphic designers (ABCD, now Sveriges Reklamförbund), the industrial designers (SID), the interior architects (SIR), the craftsmen (KIF), the illustrators (FST) and the textile and fashion designers (STOK) every time chose their representative for the jury. In later years, web design and corporate identity were also awarded. Excellent Swedish Design, with its logo designed by Hans-Christer Ericson, became a huge media success, both in Sweden and abroad.

Excellent Swedish Design