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1 Hour Design Challenge: CYCLING SHOE DESIGN!

Vive le Tour!

Carlos Sastre just spent 3 weeks of his life cycling over 3500 Kilometers (2200 Miles) to win the 2008 Tour de France. How better to celebrate with him than to spend an hour to design a spiffy new cycling shoe? That's right, Sastre spends over 87 hours getting saddle sores (ouch!) and you spend an hour sniffing Prismacolors. Sound like a fair trade? We've even invited Bill Cass to join the judging crew. He works for Nike designing cycling shoes for guys like Mark Cavendish and some guy named Lance Something-or-other.

CRITERIA:
Judging will be based on quality of presentation and whether or not your work could have realistically been done in 1 Hour (this is an honor system).

PRIZE:
Publicity in Core77 May Newsletter, publicity on Core77 Blog, Bragging rights that Bill Cass chose your design (neener neener neener!)

Jury:
Winner will be selected by Bill Cass and Core77 Admin. Community discussion is encouraged to help ensure the best design wins.

Doors open:
Monday July 28, 2008
9 AM PST (4 GMT)

Doors close:
Sunday, August 3, 2008
6 PM PST (1 AM GMT)

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IDSA-SF Digging Deeper 2008

The IDSA SF Chapter presents "Digging Deeper" next week, an evening forum discussing eco-issues that confront designers and aims to provide actionable tools for designing green.

Our panel of leading experts will introduce and discuss a series of sustainable design methods. They will then examine the steps required to successfully apply, measure and position the resulting sustainable solutions in both your workplace and the market.

Digging Deeper Conference
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
5:30pm-10pm.
Temple
540 Howard St.
San Francisco

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