The Dapper Alchemist

DiabetesMine recently announced their 2009 Design Challenge, an online competition encouraging the development of creative new tools for improving life with diabetes.

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This competition is open to any individuals or organizations passionate about diabetes and product design – whether you’re an enterprising patient or parent, a startup company, a design student, an independent developer or engineer, or a pharma R&D pro. Entries from participants under age 18 are also welcome, and will be judged in a separate category.

This competition embodies putting design to good use. I certainly hope that designers will put their time and effort towards this noble cause, and the $10,000 grand prize doesn’t hurt. For inspiration please check out the past entries on DiabetesMine’s video site and their paper site. Although if you really want to get inspired I would look into Ellaluna Taylor’s Flex concept and Jiri Bukvald’s Insuline pump project.

Entries are due on 1 May 2009, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Prizes

• $10,000 in cash for the Grand Prize winner;
• $5,000 cash for the “Most Creative Idea” category winner;
• $2,000 cash for the winner of the Kids’ Category.