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Tweet to Win The $1,800 HP Envy 15 Notebook

Takashi Yamada — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:15 +0000

Twitter-tweet-retweet! Words that can get you the world’s thinnest, lightest quad-core notebook PC FREE!

Step 1: Follow Yanko Design on Twitter and Tweet: Just entered to win a HP Envy 15. Just follow @yankodesign and retweet http://bit.ly/2j7spn
Step 2: Come back to YD and tell us how the The $1,800 HP Envy 15 Notebook will make a difference in your life.

This HP Envy 15 Notebook Can Be Yours….

It’s got immense power and offers maximum speed and mobility with the upcoming Intel® Core™ i7 Processor and up to 16GB of DDR3 1066 MHz system memory with four SODIMM memory slots.
The versatile storage options include the ability to add two solid-state drives in a RAID-0 configuration to improve the overall speed of the ENVY 15 while providing ultimate disk performance.
A choice of two 15.6” HP Brightview high-resolution LED backlit displays, including the Full High Definition LED HP Ultra BrightView Widescreen Display with up to 300 nit, provides the best display experience for a notebook in this class.
The ENVY 15 has an optional Slim Fit Extended-Life Notebook Battery, giving users up to seven hours of battery life.

Follow Yanko Design on Twitter and tweet this post on your Twitter and you could be the one taking home this HP Envy 15 Notebook!

Contest Ends: November 23, 12:00am PST

YouRail Design Contest – Visions of modern transportation by Bombardier

Radhika Seth — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:23 +0000

UPDATE: 4 weeks left!

Is publishing your contents on online design communities or hosting your own portfolio site enough for creative satisfaction? Don’t you want evaluation or recognition for your efforts? Much like how a post is done on YD, where we hear scores of you either trashing or praising a design, forcing the designers to re-think his strategy or go-ahead with his convictions. The Bombardier YouRail Design Contest by HYVE gives you instant feedback, allowing you to re-think your contribution or simply refining it.

The contest is really simple, you only need to register, get inspired and submit your design ideas. The contest is about the creation of new and innovative interior designs for trains. Questions like how a modern train interior should look like and what kind of innovative features should be integrated need to be solved. It is irrelevant if participants have great experience in interior design or not, the contest is addressed to professionals, students, hobby designers and everyone who is interested into the topic. The designs can be submitted drawn freehand or computer generated, by using the configuration tool or just by explaining the interior idea. Participants may either design a seat upholstery with the configuration tool or freely create an interior design to the following three topics:

The Leisure Passenger
The Business Traveler
The Everyday Passenger

Like I mentioned to participate you need to simply join the community and submit your own vision for interior design in trains. Or you can create your own seat cover with the 3D – configuration tool. Anyway, you can discuss and evaluate the designs of the community and win great prizes: The members with the three best freely created designs amongst all three topics win cash prizes up to 2.000 Euros. The members with the three best configured designs also win cash prizes up to 600 Euros. Plus: The members with the 4th to the 10th best freely created designs win netbooks. Hurrah!

The winning design will be built as a prototype and will be exposed on the InnoTrans 2010 in Berlin which is the leading trade fair in transportation. Besides, the designer of that winning design will be invited by Bombardier to visit the InnoTrans 2010. In addition, the most active member as well as the best freely created and configured designs according to the community evaluation are rewarded with a netbook, too. Finally, one idea will also win a netbook (and a signature book about Bombardier) by the “president’s pick” where the jury select the most unconventional idea.

The jury has an impressive line-up with high-level management and design experts – get to know them here.

What is really impressive is that like our YD community, there is instant feedback and reaction to your designs by the community members. So participating in this contest really makes sense. You get evaluated not only by your contemporaries, but also by an elite panel of judges. Which other design competition can boast of this killer combo?

To know more on the contest details hit here.

The whole contest phase is being charged by the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH. HYVE is a German innovation agency dealing with customer integration into the product innovation process. Feel free to get all important information about HYVE on their website, or contact them directly.

Want $1,000? TatSkinz Contest!

Long Tran — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:26:10 +0000

You could win a $1,000 University scholarship or a 13″ MacBook and all you have to do is a design a TatSkinz for the iPhone. You have until November 30th so get your designing neurons together because I want to see something amazing. I’m one of the judges so impress me and you might win! Open to all (18+), international contest.

Deadline: November 30, 2009 (Official rules and entry details)

100% Design Tokyo 2009 – Part I

Takashi Yamada — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:50:03 +0000

The 100% Design Exhibitions are a great time to mingle with the cream of the Design Industry and I really had a great time covering the Tokyo Edition. The theme this year was “Love Green” and the Exhibitors did a great job interpreting and weaving in the sentiments into their designs. The theme was well reflected in products made using alternative energy sources and natural materials. In short everything looked green too, I mean the color green!

Let’s kick off this coverage with the Cube Exhibition, which is a brand new addition to the 100% Tokyo. This nook actually showcased works of young designers who brought to life the Love Green Concept.

TOHO-Leo Corp and plant designer Harumi Suwa of Atelier Yukiyanagi worked with forty-five talented designers to recreate the green-magic! The dominant installation was this 2.2 m-squared cube that with a planted green façade. This Vertical Garden included beauties like Calathea and Peperomia.

Many Exhibitors brought out their innovations and sparked debates on the real fundamentalism of Eco or Green Concepts.

In the next coverage expect the 100% Café by Subway!

Pine Beetle Wood Gate by Judson Beaumont

Dumbbell Flower Vase by Satoru Okazawa & Takako Chinoda

“Grass” Chair by Kaori Yamamoto

Trigona-swing by Mie Matsubara

TRC (Transparent Reflective Chair) by Tomoaki Yoneta

“Plane” Bedside Table by Oyadica Studio

Ryoku-Kagu by Hiroya Kajiura

“Frame” by Shinichiro Nakai

Drip-drop by Keisuke Hirata & Tomomi Seki

Bolt Stool by Takumi Ichihara

Sanagi by Taichi Fujita

YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner# 5

Radhika Seth — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:26 +0000

This isn’t the end of the road you know. So what if you’re not as lucky as Alex Chandra to be declared the YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner# 5! Your time will come….you will be a winner no doubt! Plenty of surprises are in store for you and if you keep a tab on the YD Store, you’ll come to know of the exclusive offers and exquisite creations available. For now, the 10% Lifetime YD Store Discount Coupons Scavenger Hunt is closed, but I promise, sexy offers are yet to come.

YD Store Gets RSS

Radhika Seth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:16:04 +0000

Just a note to let you wonderful people know that the YD Store has added RSS. Now you can get updates on the new products in your feeds. Stuff like specials and discounts will come to you automatically and you can even be specific about the categories you wish to follow. RSS subscription is available all over the store, however, an ‘index’ of available feeds is located here.

YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner# 4

Radhika Seth — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:11:54 +0000

The name is Love, Mike Love and he is the winner number 4, of the YD Store Scavenger Hunt. Regretting that your name is not the one called out? Don’t sweat dear…because only ONE MORE 10% Lifetime Discount Coupon at the YD Store is left to be given out. It’s never too late to participate. Join The YD Store Scavenger Hunt, and who knows you could be Winner# 5! Details Here.

YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner# 3

Radhika Seth — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:53 +0000

Three Down Two To Go! That’s the score for the YD Store Scavenger Hunt. Those of you joining in late for the show, no worries, you can still get a hold of the 10% Lifetime Discount Coupon for the YD Store. All you got to do is follow the instructions here, and leave the rest to luck! BTW Congratulations and a round of applause for Sharon Ychie who is YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner# 3

YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner Number# 2

Radhika Seth — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:48:01 +0000

Greetings, and it’s time to announce the winner of the YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner Number# 2! Hurray!
Cherry times for Chris Coleman!
For the rest of you…there are still THREE MORE 10% Lifetime Discount on the Yanko Design Store to be won. Hurry and get the going here, before it’s too late!

Day 5: dºlight Huggable by Diana Lin – $30 OFF

Yanko Design — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:01:05 +0000

Don’t miss out on Yanko Design’s “Five Days of Designs” sales event, starting from October 19th and running through October 23rd for the Yanko Design Store launch. Check back each day for a new deal! If you’re new to this concept, the deal works like this: Each day at 12:01am PST, Yanko Design will be revealing a new designer product with deeply discounted deals, available for one day only. The offer ends at 11:59pm PST the same day, so take advantage of the deal while you can.

Day 5 features the D’Light Huggable Pillow by Diana Lin. Diana’s inspiration for this design is sunlight. This award-winning concept creates a light that captures the essence of happiness, joy, playfulness, and life itself, condensed into something tactile and personal.

Designer: Diana Lin [ Buy It Here ]

Day 1: Carga 02 by Mauro Bianucci – $40 OFF

Day 2: Setgo Bags & Wallets by Nathan Leon – 15% Off

Day 3: Sorapot by Joey Roth – $40 OFF

Day 4: Tom, Dick & Harry by Thabto – 10% OFF

Day 5: dºlight Huggable Pillow by Diana Lin – $30 OFF