2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition Addresses Water Preservation Challenges

Winning Design Will be Awarded $10,000;
Entry Deadline: January 4, 2008

September 20, 2007 New York, NY Metropolis magazine is challenging young designers to apply their talents to responding to the urgent, worldwide need to save and protect the earth’s water supply.

The magazine has issued its call for entries for the 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition, the prestigious award program that supports and showcases young professionals’ outstanding design innovations. The deadline for entries is January 4, 2008.

This year, the worldwide competition asks those who design interiors, buildings, products, landscapes and other aspects of the man-made environment to consider water in all of its forms—pure, gray, black—and our many points of contact with it.

All design professionals in practice for 10 years or fewer are encouraged to participate. The designer or team whose idea is judged most innovative and practical for making the most efficient, life/environment-enhancing use of the precious and dwindling water resource will be awarded $10,000.

“We’re delighted to announce this call for entries for a competition that, in the space of just four years, has generated unprecedented excitement, participation - and most important, real, implementable and beautiful concepts for improving our world through design,” said Horace Havemeyer III, publisher and founder of Metropolis.

“As its name makes clear, the Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition actively contributes to developing the industry’s own most precious resource-young talent-by incubating the forward-looking ideas of tomorrow’s leaders,” Havemeyer added. “That makes it a perfect extension of Metropolis’s quarter-century of highlighting exceptionally creative, functional and sustainable design.”

As in past years, a stellar group of design professionals will judge the Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition. The 2008 judges are Eric Chan, president, Ecco Design; Fiona Cousins, PE LEED, Arup; Lance Hosey, AIA, LEED AP, William McDonough + Partners; and Pam Light, senior VP, HOK.

The 2008 winner and runners-up will be honored at a gala presentation next spring.

Visit www.metropolismag.com/nextgen for entry details, and watch for ongoing Metropolis updates on this important competition.

The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition, which has been promoting activism, social involvement and entrepreneurship in design since 2003, is supported by sponsors Herman Miller, Maharam and Sherwin-Williams.