11.2.2011
«Hands on Door Handles» Competition
“Hands on Door Handles” is an international competition promoted by COLOMBO DESIGN in collaboration with Designboom website. Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world: professionals, students and industrial design-enthusiasts.
Participants are asked to design a versatile interior door lever handle to suit contemporary forms of surrounding architecture, for both residential and public projects. This competition is a demanding aesthetic and technical challenge to stimulate design innovation with much attention to details that make up the handle: for an industrial production dedicated to a discerning quality of design that combines technological innovation with excellence in industrial manufacturing procedures, adopting only eco-compatible processes in every stage of production.
• The deadline for registration is April 20th, 2011. Designs can be submitted through April 26th, 2011. Submit online your entries with a brief description of your design and one or more images.
• The jury, composed by the company and pioneers of today’s international architecture and design scene, will select 3 winning entries for which will be granted a cash prize award of € 3.000 each; the jury will also award the best “free style” entry with an award of € 1.000. COLOMBO DESIGN exercises the option to use the rights to manufacture the best door handles of this competition.
The organizers
• Colombo Design, since 20 years is a leading Italian manufacturer of handles for doors, windows and accessories for the bathroom, every products is manufactured according to the Green Made concept, that combines excellence industrial manufacture procedures with eco-compatible processes in every stage of production. Colombo Design has always involved the designers with the production, stimulating discussion and innovation to grant to his customers unique objects for quality and aesthetic. Faithful to this philosophy Colombo Design created in 2010 Colombo Design Advanced: a distinctive entity , integrated with the company but working freely, as an observatory on the new style trends, commercial dynamics, technology and materials.
• Designboom, the leading online magazine dedicated to architecture, project and art, provides global information on everything that concerns the world of design and industrial design, by promoting high-level competitions, schools and pioneers of today’s international design scene, and spreading culture and information in every field and country, always faithful to its mission of conveying emotion for creativity.
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Registration > http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/12774/hands_on_door_handles.html