Design

SEGD Opens 2016 Global Design Awards Competition

Deadline: January 31

Published

8 years ago

November 24, 2015

Louis M. Brill Signs of the Times November 2015 Issue

The Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), Washington, DC, is now accepting entries for its 2016 Global Design Awards. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2016.

Past winners have ranged from interactive multimedia environments to complex hospital wayfinding systems and from branded corporate workplaces to museum exhibitions. Retail and interior projects, architectural signing, public art, design research, and books have also won awards in the program.

“The sheer diversity of the winning projects highlights the broad reach of Experiential Graphic Design and its power to improve the quality of life where we work, play, learn, shop, and gather,” says Clive Roux, CEO of SEGD. “Experiential Graphic Design makes life better by creating memorable, user-centered experiences.”

The program encompasses seven categories that reflect the core practice areas of XGD:

• Digital Experience Content
• Exhibition
• Interactive Experience
• Placemaking and Identity
• Public Installation
• Strategy/Research/Planning
• Wayfinding

Honor and Merit awards will be named in each of the categories and a Best in Show Award will also be selected. Examples of these categories and winning projects in each can be found in the SEGD Global Design Awards archive.

A multi-disciplinary jury representing practitioners from a diversity of design disciplines, as well as clients, users, and students, will evaluate the submissions and select winning projects based on their effectiveness in connecting people to place, creating a unique and memorable user experience, and solving the client’s objectives and design challenge.

The deadline for submissions to the awards program is January 31, 2016, via SEGD’s online entry system. Submissions will be accepted with late fees through Feb. 14, 2016. Winners will be honored during the 2016 SEGD Conference June 9-11 in Seattle, as well as on www.SEGD.org and in SEGD’s award-winning magazine and other media outlets. Submission guidelines are downloadable on the 2016 Awards page. Past Global Design Award winners are featured in SEGD’s extensive awards gallery.

To access the entry form, CLICK HERE.

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