Local Motors has just kicked off their third vehicle design competition, the “Air Base Motors” comp.

The design challenge bases itself on a vehicle found on an air base, for the often rigorous use by military personnel.  In other words, not your father’s Oldsmobile.  This can be a fun, non-production concept that designers should thoroughly enjoy.

Requirements:

Four wheels, with a wide track for handling and stability.
Central seating position for one or two occupants, like a cockpit.
Front, Mid, or Side engine configurations will be considered.
Off-Road or On-Road vehicles are encouraged.

The competition runs from 15 July until 22 July.  Prizes include $1500 and a ton of LM swag.

Visit www.Local-Motors.com for all the info.

*Designers are encouraged to sit down and play through Halo 3 before putting pencil to paper.

I know what you’re thinking:  You’ve used this header WAY too much these last two weeks, Mr CarDesignFetish-writer-guy.

Well, as goes my free time at lunch, so do my blogging & news propoganda writing efforts.

Local Motors’ latest competition is wrapping up in a few short days.   And, with the plethora of truly cool, well-though out concepts entered into it, it’s a value to all the entrants that you look them over and give them a rating (and a comment or two) to help the designs and designers grow and be defined.  This competition had an incredible 51 entries, all with a virtual ton of work put into them.

Take a look, pass on some wise comments, and if you live in the Miami area, pick out the car of your dreams.

Local-Motors.com

Just like in any great night club, it’s officially last call for alllllllll your designs for the second LM design competition, the Miami sports car.  If you haven’t uploaded, do so now.  The deadline is 11:59 PM TOMORROW (June 17th), but I wouldn’t wait that late.  Knowing the wonderful internetz, it’ll probably be a very slow go as all of us last-seconders will be uploading at once, thoroughly clogging the tubes to Local Motors’ site.

Get it in early, folks!

Visit Local Motors’ competition page HERE.

[Correction: Our dates were off.  TOMORROW is the 17th, not today.  You just got yourself and extra day, Mister!]

Just a little friendly reminder:

That Local Motors automobile design competition we mentioned a few weeks back is wrapping up soon… Monday night at 11:59PM EST to be exact!  Scrap those weekend plans, sharpen your pencils, and get to your sketchbooks!  Miami’s future uber-cars won’t design themselves!

Visit Local Motors’ competition page HERE.

It’s not the “Design Our Shirt Contest”… It’s the “Design Our Shirt” contest. (Stupid Wordpress!)

Time is winding down for your submissions!  We already have several ideas that people have sent in!  To have a shot at YOUR design becoming our official shirt, leave an idea in the comments of this post or send it to us via email at cardesignfetish at gmail dot com.

Note: We spell our email address that way to keep out the spam monster.

The James Dyson Foundation Student’s Design Award is an annual competition taking place in the UK as part of the New Designers expo. Each year, several thousand students showcase their creativity at the expo, and Dyson selects a winning piece of student work. From Dyson’s own site, an explanation of the award:

The award presents an exciting opportunity for an emerging design engineer whose work best demonstrates the ability to think differently and create products that work better.

This year’s award winner was Reactiv by Michael Chen. The concept is based around the Wii idea of motion-sensing accelerometers built into sleeves of a jacket. As a bicyclist rides, LEDs in the sleeves react to speeding up and slowing down by changing colors, allowing vehicles or other riders behind the user to see if they are breaking or accelerating.

For more info and other creative entries, check out the Dyson Awards site.

We need a shirt! Actually, we need a design for a shirt. Actually-er, CDf needs the design for a t-shirt that we will be using for promotional means, and we are looking to the community to design it.

What we’re looking for is anything, really. A CDf tagline would be great (funny, memorable, etc) or a graphic if you are so inclined.

Post your ideas in the COMMENTS, or send graphic ideas to cardesignfetish [at] gmail [dot] com

Winner gets a free shirt with their design on it, and immortalization via the internet.

We don’t have a due date at the moment, so we’ll shoot for a week or two.

Our good friends at Dell are holding a Green design competition for computer technology.

These competitions, similar to those by Microsoft, and automotive OEMs, are great ways for students and professionals to get truly creative… and possibly win some cash in the process.

Dell is inviting everyone to try their hand at “design concepts and innovations for technology products that demonstrate refreshed approaches and responsible solutions for green computing technologies.”

The prizes total up to $160,000. For more info, visit: http://www.dell.com/DesignReGeneration

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