Two years ago high school student Andrew Kim posted this "butterfly" concept for a cell phone and blogs immediately began buzzing. Now CrowdSpring gives you a shot at fame with a $20,000 first prize offered by LG to the artist who can predict the next big mobile handset design. Entries are scored by market potential, feasibility, creativity and polish -- and participants also get a free trial run of Autodesk rendering software.
Now we don't usually go in for this type of self-promotional-giveaway, except this one seems genuinely valuable to both participant and big brand. The real story of course is how for a few grand a major handset manufacturer can tap the brilliance of an army of aspiring designers and get good buzz ... but then, some designer is going to get noticed and be launched to fame with free software he or she downloads off the net. We love it. Now if only we knew the first thing about sketching in CAD programs.
Via Ross Kimbarovsky.
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