Category — Competitions

This is a great opportunity for any student in iterior design. It sounds simple enough, you go to the IFDA Education Foundation website and follow steps. Here is the application and a list of other scholarships offered by the IFDAEF. Right now is the perfect time to enter as many competitions as possible in order to gain recognition and help build that portfolio. I am going to be entering into the contest so look back here to see my process leading up to Feburary deadline.

This is a competition that means business. When you think about the next generation of design what exactly does that make you think about? Do you think about how everything will eventually have solar panels attached to them including cars, cell phones, and schools.

So I was just approached by the Harrington College of Design Alumni to enter a Concept design for review for this years Dining By Design booth. The event is in a month and I have some pretty stiff competition. DBD is a charity event by DIFFA a great organization who is really making a difference with in the industry and I’m glad to be apart of what ever they do.

So my concept for the dining space was really born out of what is unconventional but will really create an impact; Something that will be remembered. So I started thinking about dining out doors and how the harvest season is my favorite. But that got a little bit “down home,” if you know what I mean. So I traded in the straw bails and cornstalks and replaced it with lush green grass. I wanted to create a space that really meant something to me so i began to think about what I would really want in my dream dining space. A canopy of trees, a long table, a sky filled with lanterns of all shapes and sizes and a sense of family or community, which always involves the best food and wine.

Enter a Mid-Summer Nights Dream… Bringing all the elements I n mentioned together to fit a great 10′x10′ space to create a unique dining experience for six!

Watch the video below and leave me a comment on what you think!

Starting September 18th Your Furniture Link and Harrington College of Design are teaming up to bring you the Eating and Seating Challenge!

Students are going to be able to work one on one with furniture company’s while designing two seating options; one for Eating, a dining set, a chair with a built in tray table, a lounge chair that lets you eat sitting up then has a vacuum function built in to suck up the Crumbs when finished? The Students are tested to expand their creativity and design ideas to find the piece that will win them first place. They will also be designing a Seating option for the living space. That means a sofa, a chair, clever ottomans that doubles as storage or fold out to become a guest bed? The choices are endless. Over the next Twenty Weeks be sure to visit Your Furniture Link and Check out Harrington Fridays for the Students design Process and the Winners of both challenges. First place in both categories receives a $1,000 prize and the chance to have their piece built and sold at auction. Second receives a check for $300 and third a prize of $200. This is going to be a great competition and I am looking forward to it.

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