LG announced today a new design competition, partnering with crowdSpring and Autodesk and aiming to get a glimpse of the designers’ vision on future LG mobile products. This competition is only intended for U.S. residents, who are age 18 and over and they’ll be competing for $80,000 worth of prizes.

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The first placed designer will get a $20,000 award, while the second will get a $10,000 one and the third a $5,000 award. There will also be 40 honorable mentions, worth $1,000 plus an LG U.S. phone for the designers receiving the mentions.

The competition started today, April 20, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. PST and it’ll end on June 7, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. PST.  Winners will be announced on July 7, 2009 right here and in the meantime you can have a look at the official rules of the competition here.

[via Concept Phones]

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