Night Collection Design - Product design competition

by Irena Sibila on Jan 27, 2020

◷ 25/05/2020 (deadline)

Night Collection Design is now open for entries!

CALL FOR ENTRY: New product design competition has been recently organised by Italian leading furniture company Tomasella inviting you to design a new collection of furniture items for the bedroom, consisting of a double bed and a set of storage units.

About ⇣

Night Collection Design is the name of the new product design competition organised by the famouse Italian company Tomasella that invites all designers and creative talents to design a new collection of furniture items for the bedroom, consisting of a double bed and a set of storage units.

Tomasella is looking for a collection of furniture items dedicated to the night zone of private houses and hotels. It will consist of a double bed and a set of storage units, including a bedside table, a drawer dresser and a drawer chest (optional), characterised by a modern style, in line with the brand, and showing great attention to details.

Guidelines:

The collection of furniture items for the bedroom you propose shall consist of a double bed, that might be wooden, padded, or both wooden and padded, two bedside tables (2 drawers each) - that might either be integrated in or placed next to the double bed, a drawer dresser and a drawer narrow chest (optional).

Your collection shall have a modern style, with a great attention to details and materials. The elements of the collection shall have the same family feeling. The aesthetics of the furniture items shall be able to meet the taste and the requests of a heterogeneous and cosmopolitan public, while complying with the brand style and with the products available in the company catalogue.

Proposals suggesting additional functionalities that go beyond the standard functions for this product typology (bed or storage units) will be greatly welcomed, for example suggesting a moving mechanism that modifies the product adding some functionalities or increasing the available surface, a secretaire area, a special technical device, etc.

The elements to design shall have the following size: • double bed, suitable for 160 cm x 200 cm bed base
• drawer dresser, maximum frontal width of 135 cm or 150 cm

There are no other constraints in terms of size and no standard size shall be taken into consideration for the drawers.

In order to ensure the industrial feasibility of your products, your design shall take into consideration mass production technologies.

The collection of furniture items shall be designed for the night zone of private houses and hotels.

Submission requirements:

Upload all the images that better present your projects (rendering, descriptions, CAD files, etc.) and, if necessary, remember that you can also attach a .ZIP archive containing extra materials.

Participants can present one or more projects.

All texts provided with your uploads (abstract, description, tags, etc.) should be written in English.

Evaluation criteria:

• Aesthetics (5/5)
• Compliance with the brand (5/5)
• Collection modularity (5/5)
• Degree of innovation (4/5)
• Project presentation (4/5)

There is no entry fee to participate!

It's free to enter!

Eligibility ⇣

This product design competition is open to designers and creative talents of any nationality aged 18 years or older.

Prize ⇣

The winner will recive €5000.

For the duration of the option right, the Sponsor offers an extra chance to all participants setting a fee of Euro 1,500 + royalties for the purchase of the license for the economical exploitation of the projects not-acknowledged as the winning proposals.