The Interior Motives Design Awards 2006 is open to students on a recognised graduate and post-graduate design course, anywhere in the world.

The competition begins with five lifestyle and scenario design briefs. Students can submit a design project in response to each separate design brief. The judging panel will then select the winning entry for each of the eight prize categories from all of the entries received. Students can also choose to refer to technical information from the Awards' sponsors for help with their projects.

Category winners will each receive $500 in prize money, while the overall winner will win $5,000. Winners and runners-up will all be invited to the awards ceremony at Paris Motor Show on 29 September.

Registration opens at midnight GMT on 31 January 2006. Please register your intention to enter the Awards and read the registration and entry information carefully. The deadline for registration is 15 March 2006.

Please also read carefully the submission process section. Projects must be submitted in the format required in order to be considered. Deadline for initial project submissions is on the 31 May 2006, three months after the competition start, after which a shortlist of finalists will be chosen.

Entries will be evaluated by an independent panel of senior automotive designers and non-automotive industry design professionals. Please see the evaluation process section.

awards categories

Interior Motives Design Awards 2006 prizes will be awarded for the following eight categories:
Best innovation award
Best use of technology award
Best production interior award
Best conceptual interior award
Best lifestyle interior award
Best safety innovation award
Best production exterior award*
Best conceptual exterior award*
Interior Motives Student Design of the Year

In addition one overall winner will be selected from the above categories. This will be the first place prize winner and winner of the Interior Motives Student Design of the Year award.
* Submitted entries must include an interior design solution to be considered. Exterior solutions with no interior will not be considered.

awards prizes

The Interior Motives Student Design of the Year will receive a cheque for $5,000
The winner of each of the separate categories will receive a cheque for $500.
Finalists of the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006 will be invited to the Awards ceremony on 29 September for announcement of the winners. This is an excellent opportunity to meet top figures within the international automotive design community and possibly meet potential employers!
All students that enter the 2006 competition are also invited to attend the event.

The theme of this year's Interior Motives Design Awards is '2030'.

Design a vehicle to fulfil the requirements of one of the briefs below. Do not design in terms of science fiction (anyone can do science fiction). Design a vehicle for the year 2030.

Consider future technology, the environment, society . . . regional differences.

Submit a written scenario with your entry - for example, 'I am driving where, when and why.' How does the vehicle fit this scenario? The scenario you create is in response to the brief that you choose from the list below:

emotion in motion
Assisted driving is rapidly approaching. How will we feel in 10 to 15 years' time, when everything is assisted by a machine? How will this affect the emotion of driving? Imagine such a scenario then bring back the driving experience to ensure exciting driver interaction.

time quality
With a high degree of urbanisation, the driver of the future will be stressed by driving. Time is of the utmost importance. What can we do to ensure that the driving experience is both stress-free and time efficient?

new build
Today's cars are becoming more aggressive. This may be good for some markets but may be entirely wrong for others (such as emerging markets like India).

Yet price competition means manufacturers cannot produce a different car for every country. How do we create a new system - of platforms or modules - to meet the different cultural requirements of different markets?

flow
Cars remain largely disconnected from the urban structures and the societies in which they operate. Imagine one connected system that will provide fluid mobility for a person from his / her point of departure to destination.

key students deadlines
registration deadline: 15 March 2006
All registration forms must be received online by 15 March 2006 in order to qualify for participation in the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006

submission deadline: 31 May 2006
All submissions (entries, projects) must be received online by 31 May 2006 in order to qualify for participation in the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006

competition timeline
The key dates, from registration through to the awards ceremony:
31 January 2006 at 12.00 a.m. (midnight), GMT
Launch of the competition on the internet and registration

15 March 2006 at 12.00 a.m. (midnight), GMT
Closing date for registration.

31 May 2006 at 12.00 a.m. (midnight), GMT
Closing date for receiving entries.

July 2006: Short-listing
Interior Motives magazine and the jury panel will announce its short list of entries.

August 2006: Announcement of the finalists
The students whose projects have been selected as finalists will be contacted. In August the panel of judges will convene for final judging to determine the category winners, runners-up and Student Design of the Year for the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006.

29 September 2006: Announcement of the winners
Announcement of the category winners and the Student Design of the Year at the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006 ceremony in Paris (at the same time as the Paris Motor Show).
After the ceremony, information on the winning designs and the award winners will be available on the website and through the pages of Interior Motives magazine.

more information:
http://www.interiormotivesawards.com