Annual CaesarStone student design competition open

The 2011 CaesarStone Annual Student Design Award is open for entry and encourages entrants to 'find a place for the range of what our lives are about'. Open to all students of interior design and architecture, the brief is to conceptualise a single space of mixed-use and multi-functionality; a place to sleep, eat, live, work and ultimately express our souls. The design proposal is to reflect a limited palette of materials in both external form and enclosure and in the internal fixtures and fittings.

The deadline for submissions is 12 August 2011, and the awards evening will take place on 1 September.

The judges are:

Janina Masojada of designworkshop:sa
Jonathan Anstey of Stauch Vorster Architects
Darren Bester of It Is Design
Sonja Petrus Spamer of SPS Architects
Lisa Younger of Activate Architects

To enhance design education, iRender has facilitated free access to the participating students - this coup encourages students to sign up with iRender and enjoy Free of Charge Student Educational Licenses for Artlantis Studio 3 from Abvent, the creators of the Artlantis Rendering Application and also SketchUp Pro 8 from Google which assists students in creating models for rendering in Artlantis.

As always, the prize for the winning student and lecturer is a comprehensive five-day trip to Caesarea, Israel, the home of CaesarStone, valued at R50,000.

Added to the prize package for the winning student is:

Full SketchUp Pro 8
Artlantis Studio 3
Additional Artlantis Media
Space Navigator 3D Mouse

For more competition details, Visit www.caesarstonedesign.co.za.