Smart Furniture’s newest contest is up and running: “Smart Space Design Contest: Design and Win Your Dream Space.”

SmartFurniture.com is giving away some awesome chairs to folks who design the best interior space plans using its new space-planning tool: the Smart Designer®. You could win your choice of a Herman Miller Aeron Chair, Herman Miller Setu Chair, Herman Miller Mirra Chair, or a Herman Miller Embody Chair, and be entered to win the grand prize of $2,500 gift credit to Smart Furniture so you can buy your very own dream room!

Each week in February, the Smart Furniture Team will pick their favorite Smart Space Design to be a Finalist — go here to get the software and the details!

In addition, the Smart Space Design entry receiving the most votes on Facebook and the Smart Space Contest Page will be the People’s Choice Finalist. The $2,500 Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from the five Finalists. The Grand Prize Winner will be decided by a panel of guest judges (one of them being yours truly!) So, get your act together and go to the site to get started now — time is ticking! Or, just check out all the entries here.

The Project Oficis Singulars organized by Guillem Ferran is a collaborative project in which a variety of designers from Catalonia and elsewhere created works using leather.

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This low-process, environmentally friendly desk lamp designed by Dana Cannam consists of a solid maple base, LED strip, wire, and free-moving cantilevered arm. The objective was to create a design object that uses the functionality of an unfinished hardwood.

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Because, why didn’t someone design this sooner? And why don’t I have one yet?

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I have been waiting to get my hands on a photo of this beauty. The Architect Lamp from Tom Rossau is a task lamp made from birch wood.

Have you ever wanted the perfect stationery set that truly complements your Mac? Maybe that’s just me, but these accessories from Deskology have just made themselves to the top of my wishlist.

The pieces include a 3/16″ thick aluminum inbox, pencil cup, doodad cup, and business card holder.

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Tork Design is a furniture design and fabrication company focused on artfully creating smart, ecological, and multi-generational furniture. Their current line is mostly high-end office furniture but they have built several other client-specific pieces that range from vanities to one-offs inspired from found objects.

One of their most unique visions was to create an illumination system that is wireless. By studying the principles between conductive and non-conductive materials, they have engineered a wireless lighting system (see video below) to work in partnership with our furniture. It’s like the future, except now!

The Parallel Desk
The Parallel’s modern yet timeless design inspires a fresh, creative and enjoyable atmosphere. Hidden wire cavities allow the large work surface to be uncluttered by power cords. Our wireless lighting further increases desk top simplicity. Utensils are easily accessed in three self-closing drawers.

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Arbor, which means “trees” in Latin, is a compact work desk that is made of five different solid woods. The Arbor Desk by Outofstock is small enough for tiny apartments or hotel rooms, and is best suited for laptops and light paperwork.

A front-opening drawer and four top-opening compartments allow for maximum storage space. These storage compartments get smaller from left to right.

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The Practice of Everyday Design is a new partnership founded in 2009 with a focus on installation art, product design, and architecture. The Practice is committed to the merging of seemingly irreconcilable ideas to form new design opportunities. The practice is not afraid of pushing the boundaries of convention, the status quo, or the constraints imposed by current technologies. Ideas emerge from the desire to reevaluate the banality of the everyday and reinvent them to create innovative and playful designs. Using art as a means to investigate process and design — there is no clear boundary between their design practice and their art pieces.

Check it out.

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Don’t forget that Sitbetter.com is giving away one of three brand new chairs in the “Tell Us Why You’d Be Thankful for a New Chair” contest. One lucky winner will get to choose one of three different chair options.

Enter now at Sitbetter.com.