Electrolux Design Lab 2014

Design students contribute to building thoughtful homes

Imagine this: You had an exhausting day at school and you can’t wait to get home and rest. On your way home, the weather was unpredictable and the pollution in the streets was horrible. As you enter your room, you realize that it is not as spotless as you hoped it was. You come in to the kitchen to find good food, but you find nothing on the dining table. You had a draining day and the last thing you would want to do is take care of the household chores.

The Atomium 3D food printer concept, aims to promote healthy lifestyles by incorporating play into food preparation. 

The  Breathing Wall filters indoor air using a cutting-edge bio-oxygen technology that eliminates contamination, odor and germs

The futuristic MAB cleaner scans the environment and deploys nano robots to clean dirty surfaces.

As you let out a weary sigh, you realize that your home appliances can take care of all these. You see the MAB cleaner scanning your house and deploying its flying mini-robots to the areas in need of cleaning. Meanwhile, an Atonium 3D Food Printer has determined your nutritional needs and is working on a healthy meal for you. At the same time, the Breathing Wall started to purify the air while recreating an environment that will help you relive a happy memory. Imagine this futuristic scenario made possible by you. 

This advanced home is the brainchild of the top three winners at last year’s Electrolux Design Lab competition. 

Electrolux Design Lab 2014

This year, Electrolux, a global leader in household appliances, partnered with the University of the Philippines-Diliman, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde, and University of the East-Caloocan to give design students a chance to create a thoughtful, modern home for the rest of the world to enjoy.

Design students around the globe are invited to submit innovative ideas for the future household for a chance to win € 5,000 and a six-month paid internship at an Electrolux Global Design Center.

On its 12^th year, Electrolux Design Lab continues to pave the way for future visions of urban household lifestyles, with the theme Creating Healthy Homes. The competition seeks ideas for products, accessories, consumables and services for three focus areas: Culinary Enjoyment, Fabric Care and Air Purification. Through the Design Lab competition, Electrolux sees a creative and sustainable future that projects a healthy well-being and pleasant environment for everyone to live in.

Andrea Pionilla, Marketing Manager, Electrolux Philippines, explains, “Design Lab is Electrolux’s way of fostering technological innovation. This year, we look forward to receiving creative new ideas that will promote healthy and sustainable lifestyles to millions of people around the world.” She adds, “Design students from the country are capable of competing globally and are equipped with outstanding skills and the drive to be recognized by the whole world. For the winning idea to come from the Philippines this year would be a great finishing touch.”

All Filipino Design students are welcome to join. To enter the competition, participants should submit the following: (1) a brief of their concept; (2) a visual sketch illustrating their concept; and (3) a description of the consumer benefits. Submission of entries is from March 1 to April 6, 2014. To know more about last year’s winning entries and the details of the competition, visit www.electroluxdesignlab.com.

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NOKIA Introduces Nokia Music Connection

Here’s great news for aspiring musicians and singers! Now, you can move one step closer to your dream of becoming a recording artist with Nokia’s Music Connection.

Nokia, the world’s number #1 mobile phone brand, together with Myx and Star Records introduces Nokia Music Connection, a music competition that connects unsigned music artists to their dreams by giving them the chance of winning a recording contract and having their very own music video.

Nokia Music Connection is open to unsigned Filipino artists aged 18 to 45, performing as a band with minimum of 2 and a maximum 5 members or as a solo artist of any genre (including those who sing cover songs).

Nokia Music Connection jammin’ at Casa Nami. Nokia, the world’s no. 1 mobile phone brand, recently had the Nokia Music Connection elimination round with four head banging performances at Casa Nami. Music Connection is a joint Nokia, Star Records and Myx competition that gives aspiring recording artists the chance to enter the mainstream music industry. Present during the event were judges: General Manager of Nokia Philippines, Benoit Nalin; Star Records’ Album Producer, Jonathan Manalo; Star Records’ Managing Director, Annabel Regalado-Borja; and guest judge, Myx VJ Robin Nievera.

Interested parties must submit a demo reel of their performance by uploading it to www.nokia.com.ph/musicconnection.  Length of entry must be maximum 3 minutes, must be in a popularly supported video format (.mpg, .avi, .wmv, .mov), and does not exceed 20MB in size. The performance must be original, not yet used as entry in any other contest, and does not contain any inappropriate content.

Participants may also send a CD of their performance enclosed in an envelope with complete requirements to: ABS-CBN INTERACTIVE Office at 9/F ELJCC Building, Mother Ignacia Avenue corner Eugenio Lopez Drive, Diliman, Quezon City 1103. Deadline of submission is on January 19, 2011.

A total of forty-five (45) participants will be chosen and notified to perform within the months of January to March for evaluation. By batch, they will be assigned to specific areas/bars in the metro where they will perform live, two (2) songs of their choice and will be judged by Star Records, Myx, and Nokia representatives. Also, a part of the participants’ scores will be taken from the audience’s vote via online or mobile.

To vote online, simply log in to www.nokia.com.ph/musicconnection, register and click on the ‘Vote’ button. For mobile voting, key in VOTE (space) NOKIA (space) the designated keyword of the artist your choice and send to 2331 for Globe, TM and Sun Cellular subscribers; and 231 for Smart and Talk N Text subscribers.

Users can vote only one artist per day within the voting period: January 20 – March 19, 2011. And those who voted at least once in the Finals phase (March 3–9, 2011) will be entitled to watch the Grand Finals.

From the area elimination, six (6) finalists will be selected to compete in the Grand Finals. They will battle it out in a grand concert on March 19, 2011, performing one (1) original ‘Nokia’ song composed by Star Records and one (1) performance piece.

The grand prize winner will receive P200,000 in cash, a record deal with Star Records, including production of their own music video.

On the other hand, the 5 runner-ups will each receive P10, 000 in cash and will have their own music video to be produced by Myx. They will also win a Nokia X3 Touch and Type phone.

Don’t miss this chance to be discovered and make your dreams come true. For more information on Nokia Music Connection, visit www.nokia.com.ph/musicconnection.

IMAX Think BIG project

Think BIG!  SM Cinema is giving away free IMAX tickets for those creative people who would take their pictures with the oversized popcorn, IMAX ticket, and IMAX 3D glass found in IMAX theaters together with the IMAX "think big" module.

Just upload your pictures in the SM Cinema Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/SMCinema?ref=ts

Good luck and have fun taking your pics! :)

I joined these contest!

I'm a movie buff and a movie blogger (oh, reminds me of my pending reviews, yikes!) I always check SM Cinema for movies and other updates they have! And I just recently joined their contests!

You can be updated with SM Cinema also! Check out their Facebook and their Website. See you all in the cinemas!

2nd Annual Character Design Contest

iACADEMY, one of the leading Information and Communications Technology and business college in the country today together with WACOM, the leading manufacturer of graphics tablets and pens launches the 2^nd Annual Character Design Contest.

Being the only college in the Philippines that offers Bachelor of Science degree in Animation, iAcademy aims to tap budding animation artists from high schools in and around Metro Manila and offer them a chance to study under a unique curriculum developed by academics and industry professionals.

iACADEMY uses the cutting-edge technology of the WACOM Cintiq Tablet for Animation subjects and has been the company’s authorized education partner for almost a year. WACOM is one of the largest graphics tablet producers, and is very popular with artists, graphic designers, architects, and cartoonists, who commonly cite it as an industry standard.

The contest aims to provide venue for amateur artists to showcase their drawing skills and to promote Animation as a career option to high school students. Major winners will get Scholarship grant up to 100% from iAcademy, Wacom Intuos 4 or Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and other exciting prizes from sponsors.

Interested participants may call 889-7777 or 891-3865 and look for Patti Platon or Sef Servañez or visit www.iacademy.edu.ph to download competition kit, deadline of submission of entries is on Feb. 20, 2010.