Yes, it’s back – the Proton Design Competition 2015 is now on until September 1, 2015. The national carmaker is calling budding designers aged 13 and above to showcase their artistic chops, but it is now opening up the contest to established industry practitioners as well. As with last year, paultan.org is the exclusive online motoring partner for the event, together with our Bahasa Malaysia sister site InfoKereta.com.
This year’s theme calls for a concept car for a Malaysian family, one with a design that echoes the sort of technologies one might see in the next 20 years. The aesthetic should also reflect Malaysian lifestyles and values but with a global touch. As before, participants can utilise any medium they prefer, whether digital or pencil and paper. There are attractive cash prizes of up to RM15,000 to be won.
The competition is again divided into two categories, but the rules of eligibility have been tweaked for 2015. Category 1 is open to groups of up to three students each, between 13 and 17 years of age – entries must come with the endorsement of the respective schools’ principals or head teachers, as well as a school stamp.
Moving up, Category 2 is open to individuals aged 18 years and above; unlike last year, there’s no age cap. Only Malaysians are allowed to take part, and they must possess a valid Malaysian identity card.
Submission formats have also been changed – all participants must now submit exterior development sketches; these must be hand-drawn either using traditional media or a digital sketching tablet. This is in addition to the final illustrative renderings – either hand-drawn or 3D – that were required last year.
Category 2 entrants are also now required to provide a vehicle packaging diagram that illustrates the positioning of the occupants and the powertrain, along with 2D or 3D illustrative renderings of the interior.
For the entry to qualify, participants must also provide a Design Brief in an A4 size paper containing the title of the design, the design concept and unique selling proposition of the car. Participants can submit a maximum of three (3) designs via mail only for this year; the entry form for the competition can be downloaded here (BM form here) or collected from selected Proton outlets nationwide.
This is great opportunity for Malaysian youths to be part of something that could define their future and possibly that of the local automobile industry. Time to start drawing!
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Let the bashing party begins.
Even Pug has sort of competition.
Hahaha P2 macai can’t even stop !!!
Proton will shit all competition like BMW to close shop.
Proton still top sales and DrM comfirm global brand !!!
Why bother? Rebadge pun using Suzuki design
Rebadging is reusing, not starting from scratch.
Proton can have launch 2-3 model at anytime… don’t be so naive P2 macai.
Just use your head a bit to accept Proton still top sales over your P2 annual sales !!! Lousy uneducated brain P2 macai…
Yes, yes, you are right. All hail ah Beng P1boy
Btw, how much Ah Beng paid you?
All company has continuous improvement plan especially for car makers. Finding talent is one of them. Proton is doing the right thing.
Meh,Look like Tamiya toy car
Wow..nice..
I has a lot of idea to national car makers..
Too bad I am not good in drawing/sketching…haha
Maybe you should share your idea with your young brother/sister who can draw.
I suggest you not to give your idea to this lousy national car maker. Just look at what happened to Dany Bahar. He helped Proton designed the stunning 5 Lotus concepts and see what happened to him at the end? Moreover, the design will have to go through ‘Top Management’, who are based on majority race. If you like to design, you can try for different car makers
Kacang = Danny Bahar? LOL
Does this means Proton admit their design is ugly and needs inspiration from public ???… ( Preve awkward high bontot tonggeng, Suprima ugly side look, Iriz look like an egg on wheels, and lets not even talk about the Juara @_@ )
But it still cannot beat fugly Almera dugong and Vios catfish designs, lol
Bodo nak mampos.
Audi, vw, ford, gm, bmw every year have same design contest..do they oso admit their car ugly?
such a stup*d comment..just condemn everyone at fault.why dont you give them your inspiration, we wanna look is it your design some sort of ‘pininfarena’ or bulls**t too!talk is cheap!
I think proton wanna be fair to malaysian specially to critical citizen like u. So proton is offering not only cash but also chance for people like u to show off ur talent. See if u can design car secantik u punya bahasa and sebijak u punya so called akal. Tunggu apa lagi? Take up the challenge. It is time for u to design a practical, afordable yet exqusite national car. Mind u, this design will need u to squeeze ur mind ok. Bukan pakai air liur saja.
After all sorts of design competition, and the outcome will fit in with another Campro engine?
Forget it.
This is exterior design, you ask kids to design engine kah?
Yes, kids can design better than Proton designers
Sounds more like vios and almera designs. So childish.
Proton low sales because of bad design, now need kids to help design? Pathetic…
Bad design? OMG you must be Veeyos and Almari design fans. Suggest you go to optometrist.
Another one.
Oh why so many ignorant Malaysian around.
In b4 Malaysia got no talent for design, better go back tanam padi. Dun memalukan own country in front of the world
Don’t embarrassed yourself in front of us.
I think Toyota is the one that needs to do a design competition and not proton. Their recent cars are fugly as hell.
No, VW needs it more. Vios nowadays look like Ferrari, people stare at it everytime.
STFU. I don’t need you to help me on defending my TOYOTA.
at the end theres lot of people that have nothing to do other than play with their keyboard or screen..no matter what other try to do the only thing that you know is condemn..how good is you??show it off..we wanna see it..if people do bad and you do good.bring your own..bad mentalities shows bad attitudes.as a student of industrial designer we try to build our qualitie’s with this kind of contest or so on..even we are not good enough.for us this is oportunities.but for you it just to critize.everyone have their own brain.,but you should know even ordinary people sometime can do great better than clever..
Jonathan,
proton website states for both category 1 & 2, only students. where else in you article category 2 is open to all Malaysians.
can you please confirm which is which.
http://corporate.proton.com/en/protondesign2015/How%20to%20Enter
when it want to tell the winner….who is it
when it want to tell the winner
when can i know the results???