The SABS Design Institute celebrates 40 Years of Design Excellence during 2009. The SABS Design Excellence awards scheme was established in 1969 and since inception, the scheme - known under different names over the years - has become a benchmark for excellent product design.
The scheme aims to recognise the achievements of South African product designers, encouraging local product design and manufacture, as well as promoting international competitiveness of local products.
The 2009 SABS Design Excellence Awards is now open for entry on the Design Institute website at www.sabs.co.za/Business_Units/Design_Institute/Awards/SABS_Design/index.aspx
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2009 SABS Prototype initiative to support product designers - open for entry
South Africans are an innovative bunch of people. The SABS Design Institute offers you an opportunity to enter your prototype into the 2009 Prototype Initiative. You will get a free consultation with a panel of experts who will advise you on the design aspects of your prototype.
The 2009 Prototype Initiative consists of the following:
Consultation sessions
Participants will have the opportunity to present their prototypes to a small panel of product development experts. Consultations will be confidential and will focus on the design aspects of the prototype. Consultations will take place in Cape Town (13 and 14 August), in Bloemfontein (20 August) and in Gauteng (1 to 4 September).
Other benefits of entering into the initiative will be:
Free admission to the "From Idea to Product" seminar.
A certificate of participation.
An invitation to the SABS Design Excellence Awards Exhibition.
An invitation to the exhibition of the SABS Design Excellence Awards.
Product developers are invited to apply through the Design Institute websit at www.sabs.co.za/Business_Units/Design_Institute/Awards/Prototype_Initiative/index.aspx
Idea to Product seminars
The seminars will take place in Cape Town (15 August), Bloemfontein (21 August) and in Gauteng (5 September) and will focus on the following common problems experienced by product developers:
Pitfalls in the development of a new product
The protection of intellectual property
Available financial incentives and how to access them
Available technical assistance and how to access it
The role of the industrial designer
Business strategy and entrepreneurship.
Experts from industry will lead the discussions. Registration forms and information on venues will be made available on www.sabs.co.za/business_units/design_institute/index.aspx
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2009 Design Achievers Awards open for nomination.
Design lecturers at tertiary training institutions are invited to nominate senior design students to participate in the annual SABS Design Achievers Awards, which will culminate in an awards ceremony where the winner will be announced on Youth Day, 16 June 2009. The SABS Design Achievers scheme was instituted in 1987 to encourage design leadership and youth entrepreneurship. One representative per design discipline per institution may be nominated.
Nominees will participate in the Achievers Workshop and final judging in Gauteng form 11 - 15 June 2009. The SABS Design Institute will carry the nominees' travel and accommodation expenses.
The programme is designed to introduce the nominees to current professional issues and to empower them with unique skills that can fast-track their personal development and careers. It will include workshops, visits to different design centres and places of interest, and lectures.
See the Design Institute website www.sabs.co.za/Business_Units/Design_Institute/Awards/Design_Achievers/index.aspx
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