Evolve Awards 2019
Register/Submit Deadline: Tuesday, Apr 30, 201912 AMVLAT
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The Evolve Awards is an industry design competition presented by Designer Rugs, where interior design professionals have the opportunity to design a rug to feature in the Designer Rugs Evolve Collection, and receive prize pool worth over $30,000
Established in 2010, the award came from the desire to show the possibilities of custom rug design to the interior design community, as well as support an industry that has supported us for over 30 years. Evolve 2019 marks the fourth time this competition has been held, and also presents some big milestones for the award.
For the first time, we will be creating a new award category for designers with less than 5 years experience called Evolve Emerge. In another first, entries will now be open to Southeast Asia.
The innovative designs that have come from past Evolve competitions have become Australian design classics, and have been specified in countless projects over the years.
The Prizes
This years prize pool for Evolve is our biggest yet, with a total prize pool of $30,000 in travel, product and design fees to be won! Both Evolve and Evolve Emerge winners (our new category for emerging designers) will be receiving a grand prize this year.
THE WINNER OF EVOLVE AND EVOLVE EMERGE WILL EACH RECEIVE:
- Return flights from your nearest capital city to Milan
- 3 nights’ accommodation
- One admission ticket to attend Salone de Mobile 2020
- Your 200x300cm or 250cm Diametre rug to the value of up to $3,950 AUD
- Design Fee of $2000 AUD (plus GST where applicable)
- Your design featured in the Designer Rugs’ Evolve Collection 2019/2020
SIX FINALISTS WILL RECEIVE:
- Design Fee of $2000 AUD (plus GST where applicable)
- Your design featured in the Designer Rugs’ Evolve Collection 2019/2020
PEOPLE’S CHOICE WILL RECEIVE
- Design Fee of $2000 AUD (plus GST where applicable),
- OR, in the case of our People’s Choice winner also being a finalist, an additional $2000 (plus GST) cash.
Design Specifications
Evolve is a great opportunity to design the rug of your dreams, but you will need to keep within certain design limitations in order for your design to qualify.
- Entrants are invited to submit up to a maximum of three (3) designs.
- Design should be intended for a 200 x 300cm or 250cm diameter rug.
- The designs will be hand tufted in New Zealand Wool with the option of bamboo silk detailing.
- Designs can be produced in cut pile and loop pile with the option of carving to design details.
- A maximum of six (6) colours per design.
- Line work should be no finer than 1cm thick (scale 1:20 = 0.5mm).
- Shapes should be no smaller 4cm diameter (scale 1:20 = 2.0mm) to retain their definition.
- Design can be produced both digitally or hand rendered and uploaded into PDF format provided. Designs produced in digital programs such as; Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc, must be published to PDF for entry. Designs that are hand rendered, drawn, painted, etc, will be required to be scanned or photographed and submitted as a PDF.
- PDF’s are to be uploaded with file name format
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Key Dates
Entries open: 11th March, 2019
Entries close: 30th April 2019
Finalists selected: Before 28th May 2019
Event and winner announced: October 2019
Entry Criteria
EVOLVE is open only to professionals engaged in the interiors and architectural industry:
Architects
Interior Designers
Interior Decorators
For the first time, Evolve will be open to two experience categories, with a grand prize for each.
Entrants will fall into one of two categories:
EVOLVE is open to professionals with 5 OR MORE years experience
EVOLVE EMERGE is open to professionals with LESS THAN 5 years experience
Submissions are only accepted from individuals. Collectives or design partnerships are not eligible. Prizes are awarded as a whole, and will not be divided into sections.
Entrants must be permanent residents of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong or Indonesia at the time of entry, and must fit one of the three professions detailed above
Judging
The judging panel consider submitted designs and rate each on the following:
- Innovation: judges will assess if submitted designs bring a new and original concept to finished rugs
- Commercial viability of the rug design
- Demonstrated understanding of the handmade rug construction process
Judging is conducted anonymously, in three phases:
- Shortlist - 150 designs selected from entries received by the closing date
- Judging of top 40 designs, with the eight finalist designs selected for manufacturing
- Private judging on event night to select the overall winner
The People’s Choice Award is decided via online vote in September 2019. Voters will be able to choose from the top 40 designs.
Judges
YOSI TAL
Managing Director, Designer Rugs
EMMA ELIZABETH
Creative Director, Local Design
GRIFFEN LIM
Partner, Make Architects
STEPHANIE MOFFIT
Design Director, Mokum
BRENTON SMITH
Director, Bates Smart
Enter at evolve.designerrugs.com.au
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