Design Competition: Design Your Own Alphabet!

25 July - 31 August 2011

This contest is open to design students and professionals based in New Zealand.

Design your own alphabet (all 26 letters, numbers are optional) and provide a sample of the alphabet letters spelling "Goethe-Institut" using your alphabet letters. You may submit digital or hand-drawn designs.

What do you need to turn in? Images of all 26 letters. Please combine them into one A2 poster and also submit a zip file of all 26 letters as one A4 JPEG. In addition, you must use your letters to spell "Goethe-Institut" using your alphabet and send one A4 JPEG file.

What to include in your email: Your full name, phone number and email address as well as your postal address (this will only be used to contact you in the event that you are a finalist and for no other purpose). In addition to your contact information, you need to include the 26 alphabet letters and "Goethe-Institut" spelled in your letters. You can send this as two single A4 -JPEG. Please attach files, do not embed them into the email body.

The competition opens for submissions on 25 July 2011. All entries must be submitted in print and digitally by 31 August 2011. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Send your email to arts@wellington.goethe.org with the subject line "Alphabet Contest".

Prizes:

* 1st prize: a scholarship for a 4 or 8 week long German language course in Germany in 2012 (international travel and accommodation expenses will be covered)
* 2nd prize: an I-Pad
* 3rd prize: German language course at the Goethe-Institut in Wellington in 2012

Pixel pro-cap touchscreen

This is a perceptive pixel pro-cap touchscreenn 82-inch multitouch LCD screen. It is known so far
as the world's largests LCD display.
It is this company's 'storyboard' application, that help and allows them with alot of multi-media
access such as building of quick-access, multimedia presentations.
live video feeds, maps, interactive applications, images, motion graphics, and other content can be assembled
and interacted with locally.
It is similar to how touch screen smartphones work, but just in a wider and computerized mode.
It is so touch-sensitive that it can detect an unlimited number of simultaneous touches as light as a finger tip.

I saw this kind of techonology in the movie; Mission impossible (i think), in one of the series. I am so amazed that
our techinology is already capable of making what was shown in movie in reality.
I believe in future, this will be developed further, that everything in our life will be easy access by just a finger-touch.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/16142/perceptive-pixel-pro-cap-touchscreen-at-siggraph.html

Daniel Woo

football-augmented-reality

i played this app on my friends iphone and it was very interactive in the way it involved surrounding objects.

http://poland.digitalslife.com/football-augmented-reality-application-for-iphone-4/





 Mohamed Danoun

bit stuck for ideas?

This french website posts interesting design, art and advertising from all around the world, its a great place to find some inspiration when you are a bit stuck for ideas!

 

http://www.fubiz.net/

 

Abraham Hollingsworth

I WISH I THOUGHT OF THAT

'A collection of artwork that inspires & depresses me. I know its good when i'm left thinking DAMN I WISH I THOUGHT OF THAT.' - The Jealous Curator

This is a website that I visit regularly to get inspiration for a range of creative ideas. Although it is predominantly fine arts based, I do find it useful to get ideas for compositions and colour schemes. I have found and used many artists and images from this website as precedent images.

http://www.thejealouscurator.com

Ella Bates-Hermans

alarm clock

This is an alarm clock that was designed by Oliver Sha that sets out to activate your brain the second you wake up. The alarm clock goes off at the time you set it to but to turn it off you must solve 1 to 3 brain teasers. Another sneaky feature added is the clock has a hard to open battery compartment so you can't just rip the batteries out if you can't solve the problem. I thought this was an interesting interactive idea but not something I could see myself enjoying!

Sabrina Turner

Sifteo blocks

In a world that is always creating technological substitutes for older games this is a leap forward. These computerized cubes sense each other and can be placed together to run different applications and games. It makes me wonder if we will slowly transfer all games that we used to play as kids onto screen operated systems.

"By adding computing power to blocks, the founders hope they can create a new kind of game interface"

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37819/


Julie Drake