Time to Enter The Extreme Redesign Contest

Stratasys' annual Extreme Redesign Contest for students is open - but only until the deadline of February 2. If you've been thinking about entering, think no longer because you'd better fill out the forms straight away. 

 

The contest enables students in grade school as well as university to enter a design (product, enhancement, art or architecture) for evaluation. Winners will receive scholarships and have their design actually printed. 

 

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Extreme Redesign Contest Winners for 2011

The winners in Dimension's Extreme Redesign contest for this year have been announced! As is the case every year, the contest has three major categories: College, Art & Architecture, Middle/High School. Buildings & Bridges and Puzzles & Games. 

 

You can check out all the winners at the link below, but a couple of items caught our eye as being especially interesting. 

 

The third place winner of the College category was a pair of students from Toronto, David Di Giuseppe and Arash Nouraee, who developed a solution to the problem of using a laptop on your lap. (Aside: shouldn't that have been a design requirement of all laptops from the start? Hmm.) Their solution is a specialized laptop case that doubles as a safe-to-use desk upon which you may use the laptop. This item even has a great name: Desk2go!

 

Elliot Wilm of Illinois won the Middle/High School category with something we've always needed but were too dumb to think of it ourselves: A doorstop embedded within the door itself! The doorstop acts like a vertical dead bolt that drops down and stabilizes door swing. This not only holds the door open for you when you are hauling in groceries, but also protects the door from scuffs feet kicking and holding open the door while your hands are full. 

 

Great designs from all the winners!  

 

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Free 123D T-Shirts!

Autodesk is running a promotion to raise interest in their new web-based 3D modeling tool, 123D, which we've written about before. 

 

You don't get a t-shirt for nothing, though. You have to make an image of your original 3D Jack-o-lantern design and share it within their online gallery. This could be easier than you think if you make use of their starter pumpkin models and instructional video. Then they'll send you a t-shirt. 

 

The program ends (presumably) at the end of this month. 

 

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Win Thousands From Formero

Australian 3D Print service Formero is running a contest for the "most creative and innovative use of Objet 3D printing technology". The prize: AUD$1000 and AUD$2000 worth of Formero's 3D print services. That's AUD$3000 in total for one of you creative readers. 

 

The contest, called "When Images Come To Life" is pretty open as you need only produce something interesting that fits within the technical parameters of their Objet 3D printers (full details at the link below.) That and a 200 word description of your item, sufficiently worded to convince the judges that you should win. Enter by November 7th of this year. 

 

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Augmented Human Contest

One is always amazed at the imagination of 3D designers who produce unusual objects and applications using 3D printing technology. Now i.Materialise has gone further and started a contest with the most unusual theme yet: Human Augmentation. In other words, they'll give a prize to the designer who invents the most interesting item that can improve your body! 

 

But what things may be appropriate for this contest? They provide one example (above) being specialized chopsticks that attach to your fingers. Some of these items may merely attach, but others may be "elective implants", requiring some type of invasive action. Regardless, the entries "must improve the human body in some way". Winners will receive a titanium print of their design.

 

The contest is open until June 6th, and we suspect entries will require not only a great design but some very well-worded instructions to explain why someone would benefit from the item. This should be a very interesting contest to judge. 

 

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Jewelry Design Challenge

3D print service i.Materialise is running a new contest for "new concepts, techniques and ideas in jewelry design". Given the startling designs already present in 3D printed jewelry, we're extremely interested in seeing what kinds of items are generated in this contest. i.Materialise thinks so too, because: 

 

Ten winners will be selected and their pieces will be offered for sale in the .MGX Store in Sablon Brussels. The jewelry design will always remain your property and you will receive a 5% royalty on every sold item.

 

And the top three entrants will receive an actual 3D print of their design. This demonstrates a lot of confidence in the design community that we're very pleased to see. 

 

The contest is now open and runs until 1 June 2011. Full information at the link below. 

 

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OurBricks' $250 Modern Life Contest

3D Model online sharing service OurBricks has launched a design contest where the prize is fame (and USD$250) and the theme is simply "Modern Life". If that sounds perhaps slightly ambiguous, you'd be right. According to OurBricks representative Henrik Bennetsen: 

 

OurBricks is hosting a design competition for 3D artists. The theme is "Modern Life." We deliberately came up with something that would be yours to interpret any which way you want and we'd love to see what that is.

 

There is a special URL (below) for you to use to upload your amazing design - but be sure to do so before 16 May 2011 12pm PDT or you'll miss out. They also advise to put your item up as early as possible to maximize viewing. Winners will be announced on the 20th. 

 

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Extreme Redesign Challenge Winners 2011

The winners of this year's Extreme Redesign Challenge have been announced by Dimension Printing. The annual contest permits students from several levels to enter their designs in five categories: College Engineering; Art and Architecture; Middle School/High School Engineering; Puzzle and Game Design; Building or Bridge Redesign. 

 

This year's winners include: 

 

• College Engineering: Jeremy Prince of Tennessee, who designed a "prone stander", a device enabling children with cerebral palsy to assist in developing muscles. 
• Art and Architecture: Dov Feinmesser & Aaron Hendershott of Toronto, who produced a children's chair that has several different operating modes. 
• Middle/High School Engineering: Elliot Wilm of Illinois designed a doorstop. But it's a very special doorstop that is embedded within the door itself, providing many advantages. 
• Building or Bridge Redesign: Jeevan Farias of New Jersey, who redesigned the Beijing National Stadium to reduce the amount of electricity required and add clean energy sources such as wind turbines. 
• Puzzle or Game Design: Kyle Wilkinson of Indiana, who made a kind of spherical Rubik's cube, complete with a hidden chamber. 

 

Congratulations to all the winners!

 

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