Crystal Vision & Crystal Palace

For the ones of you getting a lot of inspiration from Salone del Mobile and maybe a little bit from our design blog, use your talent in a competition. Swarovski has launced the "Crystal Vision" competition where they look for innovative product concepts that might be based on pure crystal or fuse crystal with new materials.

They want you to explore the properties of the material and challenge
people's perception of how crystal can be used in the near future.

The products shall fill the new SWAROVSKI concept store.

Check it out. There will be 2 winning entries, and they will be granted with cash prize awards :
- first prize Euro 4000
- second prize Euro 3000
- third prize Euro 2000

Remember, the deadline is the 31 of may 2008.

Swarovski also presents "Crystal Palace" You can find it in Via Savona 56, Zona Tortona. This years installations at the Crystal Palace is by a group of international designers including:

Paul Cocksedge
Front Design
Zaha Hadid
Studio Job
Piero Lissoni
Arne Quinze
Fredrikson Stallard:
Marcus Tremonto
Marcel Wanders
Tokujin Yoshioka