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2014 FashioNXT Wearable Technology Fashion Competition

written by Syuzi Pakhchyan August 18, 2014

Here’s your chance to enter a wearable tech competition focused on making wearables more fashionable. The projects can be conceptual and it looks all you need are drawings and sketches. 

Deadline: Sept 5, 2014

Details below:

Welcome to the 2014 FashioNXT Wearable Technology Fashion Competition for the most fashionable wearable technology design concept, presented by Digital Trends.

The purpose of this competition is to inspire innovative thinking to go beyond and above making technology wearable to making it fashionable and most importantly worn. Imagine and design what has not been imagined before. Stretch the imagination on all ideas fashionable with no limits or boundaries. Change the status quo on how the world experiences the use of technology through fashion.

Conceptual designs are encouraged to be fashion forward with use of innovative technology design methodologies and proposed materials. Design concepts do not have to be currently feasible. The technology specifications are not part of the competition criteria. The competition’s sole focus is on the fashion forwardness of the conceptual designs and the designs ability to motivate the audience to desire the product concept. 

The finalists and winner will receive recognition of their talent by having their design concepts showcased at the 2014 FashioNXT runway show and receiving national and international press.  A prize package will be awarded to the winner of the most fashionable wearable technology design concept, details below.   

Judging Panel

  • Jeremy Kaplan – Editor in Chief, Digital Trends 
  • Howard Nuk – Head of Industrial Design, Samsung Design America
  • Michelle Lesniak – Fashion designer, winner of Project Runway season 11.
  • Eden Dawn – Style Editor, Portland Monthly Magazine
  • Russ Stromberg – Account Director, Synapse
  • Matt Rhoades – Design Lead, Nike
  • Mark Francis – Venture Lead, New Business Initiative, Intel

Prize Package

  • $1,000 Cash Prize
  • Feature on Digital Trends, The Manual, The Oregonian-Oregonlive and FashioNXT.net
  • Showcased at FashioNXT 2014 Runway Show and free exhibit at FashioNXT 2015 Runway Show
  • A computer system with Intel’s latest technology, courtesy of Intel Corporation
  • Complimentary benefits from Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN)
  • One year free membership to Technology Association of Oregon (TAO)

How to Participate   

The Wearable Technology Fashion Competition is open to anyone with fashionable ideas – creatives of all types, students, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, technologists, and visionary thinkers. To Participate, submit the following about your design concept online.  

  • 200 Word Description of Functionality
  • Conceptual Drawings / Sketches                            
  • Optional: One Minute Video

Contestants are required to submit their design concept by September 5, 2014. Three finalists will be determined by industry experts and announced on September 15. The finalists will have their designs showcased at the FashioNXT Runway Show on October 9, 2014 in Portland, Oregon at which one contestant will emerge as the winner of the most fashionable wearable technology design concept. All participants must be 16 or older. Finalists have to cover their own travel cost to FashioNXT.

Judging Criteria

  • Fashion Forwardness
  • Innovation and Originality of Design
  • Functionality of Technology Application   
2014 FashioNXT Wearable Technology Fashion Competition was last modified: August 18th, 2014 by Syuzi Pakhchyan
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Syuzi Pakhchyan is a user experience designer and author with a passion for crafting next generation wearable technologies. Syuzi is reimagining the design industry with her game-changing insights on the connection between technology and the human body

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