Entries open for Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition

Entries can now be submitted to the interactive design competition from  Opel/Vauxhall, in partnership with CDN, which asks students: "What do you think is our lounge style?" 

Students are invited to upload their entries to the competition website www.cardesigncontest.com, where they can be viewed and commented upon by the design community as well as other students.

CDN and Opel/Vauxhall is encouraging entrants to start uploading material from day one to increase their changes of getting useful feedback on their entries. The competition judges, as well as the design community and other students, will be looking at your research imagery and mood boards, sketches, renderings and video – whatever you feel best represents your vision.

You have the opportunity to amend your entry and re-submit as many times as you like; the website will retain your work after each new submission so that everyone can see how your design has evolved. Entries close on 10 December, when your latest design will go forward for judging.

The Car Design News-Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition is open to student designers (in any discipline, not just automotive) studying at a college in Europe. 

"What we're looking for is not just for the students to design, but to come up with an experience," says project creator Liz Wetzel, Director of Interior Design at GM Europe.

Three entries will be chosen as finalists and their creators will be invited to work on CAD software (support will be given) with one of the competition partners to develop a final motion graphic of their lounge. These designs will be judged to select the single winner. The winner will be announced at the 2011 Geneva motor show, where videos of the three finalists will also be shown.

The winning designer will secure a paid internship at Opel's design studio in Russelsheim, Germany. There will also be prizes of membership to CDN – six month memberships to the first 10 entries to be uploaded – and an annual membership to the student judged to have made the best contribution to the online community and the interactivity of the competition.

A second stage of the competition, for exterior design, will be launched in the New Year.  Finalists and the winner of that stage will also be announced at the 2011 Geneva motor show.

Good luck!

By CDN Team