You Fab 2012: International Design Contest

FabCafe is the first café in Japan with a laser cutter. Five months ago, FabCafe opened its doors in Shibuya, Tokyo. So far, we’ve had more than 10,000 customers, and they’ve created over 600 works of art with our laser cutter.

Our next goal is to share the excitement of fab with more people. So, this summer FabCafe has joined forces with the Loftwork.com platform for creators to host an international design contest: You Fab 2012.

For You Fab 2012 we’re looking for exciting ideas from around the world, beyond the walls of our café in Tokyo.

Categories:

• Mac Fab
  Use the MacBook cover as a canvas for your original design. The laser cutter engraves the coating on the surface, not the metal. Your design will appear white when it is engraved.
• Free Fab
  You choose the materials and theme.

Prize

Mac Fab category:

Grand Prize (1 winner)

• 11-inch MacBook Air engraved with the winner’s design.
• The winner’s design will be sold on FabCafe’s online store.

Special Prizes (multiple winners)

• The winners’ designs will be sold on FabCafe’s online store.

Free Fab category:

Grand Prize (1 winner)

• A FabCafe party to celebrate your fab design. We will subsidize transport costs for people who live outside of Tokyo (up to around 1200 USD).
• The winner’s design will be sold on FabCafe’s online store after a prototype is made in FabCafe .

Special Prize (1 winner)

• The winner’s design will be sold on FabCafe’s online store after a prototype is made in FabCafe.

Judges

• Klein Dytham architecture
• Mark Frauenfelder (Chief Editor of Makezine)
• Toshiya Fukuda(777 Interactive Inc.  Creative Director)
• Hiroya Tanaka (FabLab Japan founder)
• Kotaro Iwaoka (FabCafe Fab Master)

http://www.loftwork.com/blog/pickup/youfab2012/en/