LG Wants You to Design Their Next Phone

LG Mobile Phones is partnering with crowdSPRING for a new competition to define the future of personal mobile communication.

This year's competition is even bigger and better than last year's:  first place will be awarded $20,000, second place awarded $10,000 and third place awarded $5,000.

To reward as many people as possible in the
name of creativity, LG will be giving out 40 honorable mentions of $1,000 plus an LG U.S. phone!

They need U.S. residents (citizen or green card holder) age 18 (or age of majority in state of residence) and older.

They give participants a chance to design the next revolutionary LG mobile phone and compete for more than $80,000 in awards. They want designers to exercise creative imagination

They are looking for a cool new concept or "big idea" supported by usage scenario illustrations.

Submissions may be illustrated or rendered in any format - hand sketches, digital drawings, or renderings - rendering tool used will not affect judging process.

LG and crowdSPRING have partnered with Autodesk®, a world leader in 2D and 3D design software. Autodesk will be providing a FREE 15-day trial of SketchBook Pro to all participants of this competition.

For more information go to crowdSpring.

Deadline is  June 7, 2009 @ 11:59 p.m. PST.