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Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston.

Wow. Last week, we posted our Design Museum Boston branding concepts for feedback, and more than 1700 people checked out our survey and 274 completed it. The greatest part: everyone aligned--Continuum, Design Museum Boston, and you—on which directions were the strongest.

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This fall, you could be one of six clever individuals working side-by-side with 24 top PepsiCo leaders, helping them rethink and work through key business challenges. The company has partnered with Continuum to help them run an eight-session fellowship problem where they will bring in innovative, interdisciplinary thinkers to work on small teams with Continuum coaches to tackle real-world design challenges, moving through the process from user-research to rapid prototyping.

The first session will begin on October 15th and continue for eight consecutive weeks. In addition to the an opportunity to participate in the workshops, the six selected applicants will receive a $4,000 dollar stipend. Sessions will be held in New York City, Purchase, NY (PepsiCo HQ), and Continuum's Boston office.

You must apply before September 15th. For an application and guidelines, email innovationfellows (at) pepsico (dot) com.

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Guest post by Phil Patton.

Surprisingly self-effacing among the high profile wit and higher profile designers of Alessi, the new Ovale line of tableware from Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec may sum up the current design zeitgeist.

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You've got one month left to enter this year's Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge, witha monster prize of $100,000 each year for "comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health."

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We love the new collection released bye eco-friendly undies line PACT in partnership with the Creative Growth, a contemporary art center in Oakland that "focuses on unlocking the creativity of adults artists with developmental disabilities."

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This year at the London Design Festival, the Shop at Jasper Morrison's studio, full of super normal household objects, will display a selection of trays from around the world— a selected few are pictured above. Morrison will also launch three new products of his own, The Country Trainer, designed for Camper; a telephone for Punkt, and a platinum grey ceramic R5.5 chronograph for Rado.

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TokyoFlash, that manufacturer of eye-catching, bizarrely-complicated timepieces, is seeking new watch design concepts through their Design Challenge. The language is murky as to whether or not winning submissions will see actual production, but the entries are coming in hard and fast all the same.

Think you can out-weird these guys? Enter the competition here, or peruse the incoming entries here.

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These days there are high-end hotels in Las Vegas that will sell you new versions of the luxurious sheets, pillows, and even toiletries that they stock their rooms with. But the casinos on their ground floors are a different story; no one wants to furnish their house with the gaudy trappings surrounding a roulette table.

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This is pretty nuts-and-bolts ID, but I believe we're looking here at an early, primitive version of a design that we'll see more refined versions of in the future. The Pallet Sign, by U.K.-based Fripp Design & Research, is a simple series of clips that cover the sides of shipping pallets and provide a surface for signage, angled upwards so standing consumers can read them. Why?

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After an eight month international search, Core-fave Rama Chorpash was selected to join Parsons The New School for Design School of Constructed Environments (SCE). He'll be taking a tenure track position as Associate Professor of Product Design, and as the Director of Product Design. As Director, he will be charged to help create an integrated academic vision for SCE, including the MFA in Product Design and other new programs. And though he'll surely have his hands full, Rama will still be running his Rama Chorpash Design consultancy.

You'll recall Rama's star turn in our Design, Wit, and the Creative Act event (we miss you Tobi!), and you can read more about Rama in this Nice NYTimes article on Rama from 2006 here.

Congrats Rama!

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