Design Contest: Design Technical Accessories for Clothing Items & Win Up to 3,000 Euros Prize Money

Desall.com invites applicants to take part in their new edition of the Lampa Design Award, with the aim of exploring innovative solutions for technical accessories for clothing items dedicated to streetwear world, including tuck catches, cord stoppers, buckles, fasteners, stopper lace, rings, hooks and carabiners.

Lampa is looking for innovative solutions both in terms of aesthetics and functions for a new collection of technical accessories for clothing, leatherwear and footwear, reinterpreting with new shapes and aesthetic choices some product typologies that already exist or proposing technical solutions yet to be employed.

Guidelines

For the correct realisation of your proposals, keep into consideration the following guidelines:
[1] Product typology: suggest the design for a new collection of closures/technical accessories for clothing, leatherwear and footwear, including:

1. Tuck catches
2. Cord stoppers
3. Buckles
4. Fasteners
5. D rings
6. Stopper lace
7. Hooks and carabiners.

You are free to explore new closing or fixing modalities or to reinterpret with new shapes and aesthetic choices products that are already available in their catalogue. For more information about the product typology, please refer to the Material files.

[2] Functions: the researched products shall both serve a decorative function – hence they must be a good fit for the various products they are meant for (clothing items, footwear, leatherwear, etc.) – and the specific function (closing, fixing, adjusting, etc.) that each product is required to perform according to its typology.

[3] Style: you are free to reinterpret the style of the products already available in their catalogue (see Material files) or to propose an innovative style, always keeping into consideration the market the company operates in, with a special focus on the streetwear world.

[4] Materials: the elements you are invited to develop might use one or more materials, among PA, acrylics, resins, zamak and rubber.
[5] Production technologies: the collection of products you propose shall be industrialisable, hence manufacturable through large-scale production technologies, including moulding and lathing.
[6] Target: the products you propose shall be conceived for a wide public, with a particular focus on the average customer of street wear products.

Eligibility and Submission

1. Participation is free of charge and open to designers and creative talents of any nationality aged 18 years or older. 
2. Language: since this is an international Community, all texts provided with your uploads (abstract, description, tags, etc.) should be written in English.

Prize

1. The winner will be offered €3000. The selection of the winner by Lampa will be the result of an unquestionable evaluation and it will take into account originality, feasibility and consistency with the brief presented.
2. Option right: for the duration of the options right, the Sponsor offers an extra chance to all participants setting a fee of Euro 1,000 for the purchase of the license for the economic exploitation of the projects not-acknowledged as the winning proposals.

For more information about this contest, read the Brief Document.