All interiors categories include pop-ups, temporary installations and kiosks, as well as fixed facilities. Where a category is subdivided into subcategories– for example, Hospitality and Leisure and Entertainment - please state which subcategory you are entering.
Categories
A) Branding and Wayfinding
This category is about helping people find their way around. It includes branding and signage for building interiors, campuses, precincts, workplace complexes, exhibitions and kiosks and installations by brands and retail concessions.
Submissions should include details of naming, if appropriate, the wayfinding strategy, physical signing, and any related marketing collateral.
B) Cultural Venues
We are looking for the best experiences for visitors to concert halls, museums, galleries and the like and the permanent and temporary exhibitions they offer.
Submissions should include an outline of the interiors, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting and special effects.
C) Learning
We are looking at learning in its broadest sense. The category covers formal educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities. But it also includes research centres, libraries and training facilities. It combines both public and private sector facilities.
Submissions should include details of the interiors, highlighting any particular design features, materials and lighting.
D) Experiential Design
Technology is changing our expectations of spaces and facilities and the way we experience them. We are looking for the best use of lighting, audio visual and visual effects for brands, cultural venues, theatre productions, exhibitions and retail, including trade show stands and installations by brands.
Submissions should give details of the project and its context, highlighting and explaining in simple terms the technologies used and the impact they had.
Healthcare and wellbeing are growing social concerns. Though hygiene remains key, designers are looking beyond the clinical approach to health environments to create more welcoming spaces that are also better places in which to work.
Submissions should include details of the interiors, highlighting any particular design features, materials and lighting.
Submissions may be made to each of the two subcategories below:
E) Hospitals and Clinics
F) Residential Care Homes
We have brought together categories from previous years under the hospitality umbrella.
There may be crossovers within hospitality projects, but submissions may be made into each of two subcategories:
G) Bars, restaurants, clubs and cafes
Submissions should give details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting or special effects.
H) Hotels, Bed-and-Breakfast Facilities and Other Overnight Accommodation
This umbrella category covers permanent and temporary environments and one-off events. Submissions may be made into each of three subcategories:
I) Cinemas, Theatres and Music Venues
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
J) Sports Stadiums and Sports Centres
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
K) Spas, Health Clubs and Gyms
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
We are looking here for residential interiors that respond to their particular context and surroundings. They need to be appropriate for the person living there, but have an enduring quality that transcends fashion.
Submissions may be made into each of two subcategories:
L) Residential Developments
Submissions should include design and décor for houses and apartments, show homes, hostels and other shared facilities.
M) One-off Homes, Large and Small
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
Despite the horror stories from the high street, retailers and brands are increasingly using design to enhance customers’ experience in-store to balance the dominance of online shopping in some markets. We are looking at retail in its broadest sense, including independent shops, chain stores, department stores, financial services hubs, travel agencies, salons, pop-ups and so on.
Submissions may be made into each of four subcategories:
N) Chain Stores, Department Stores, Supermarkets, Concessions and Pop-Ups
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
O) Independent Shops or Small Chains
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
P) Visual Merchandising
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
Transport systems and hubs are improving worldwide as countries and cities upgrade their infrastructure. Competition for customers among individual operators, from airlines to ferry companies, is meanwhile placing interior design more central to their businesses.
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting aspects and signage/information systems.
Submissions may be made into each of the two subcategories:
Q) Transport Hubs
Including airports, stations and terminal concourses, ticket offices.
R) Conveyance Interiors
Including trains, boats, planes, buses, cars and commercial vehicles.
The way we work is changing. Hot-desking is becoming the norm in some companies, with home-working and co-working growing apace, particularly among small, independent operators.
Submissions may be made into each of two subcategories:
S) Corporate Offices
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
T) Studios, Co-working Spaces and Home Office
Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.
U) Interiors Practice Of The Year
This award is open to any interior design practice, individual or department that has been established for five or more years. It will be awarded to the practice that demonstrates its devotion to raising the bar for interior design, in terms of creative quality, materials innovation and social appropriateness.
Entrants are invited to submit a cross-section of their work completed since 1 July 2017. The judges will be looking for evidence of all-round excellence, regardless of the size of the practice and particular areas of expertise.
V) Emerging Interiors practice Of The Year
This award is open to any interior design practice or department that has been established for less than five years. It will be awarded to the practice that demonstrates its devotion to raising the bar for interior design, in terms of creative quality, materials innovation and social appropriateness.
Entrants are invited to submit a cross-section of their work completed since 1 July 2017. The judges will be looking for evidence of all-round excellence, regardless of the size of the practice and particular areas of expertise.
Grand Prix
The judges will revisit the winners of each of the interiors categories and vote for the project they deem to be the best in show. This category can not be entered directly.
1) Furniture
All types of furniture, including tables and desks, chairs and sofas, beds, storage and shelving, are eligible for this category. Products can be for contract or domestic markets. The judges will be looking for excellent design, innovation and a concern for sustainability.
This category is for furniture for public areas, hospitality installations and homes.
2) Office Furniture
This category is for office furniture such as desks, chairs and storage. Products can be for contract or domestic markets.
The judges will be looking for excellent design, innovation and a concern for sustainability.
3) Kitchen and Bathroom Fittings
This category covers fittings for kitchens or bathrooms, from basins, ovens and refrigerators to baths, toilets and bidets. Individual products or entire bathroom suites and kitchens may be entered and they can be aimed at contract or domestic markets.
The judges will be looking for excellent design, innovation and durability.
4) Lighting Products
This category includes interior and exterior lighting products. It covers everything from free-standing desk lamps and decorative lighting to integrated lighting systems.
The judges will be looking for excellent design, innovation and evidence of energy-efficiency.
5) Surfaces
We are looking for exciting new ways to cover walls and floors, from wallpaper and tiling to carpets, rugs and composite flooring. Products can be for either contract or domestic markets.
Key features should include excellent design, innovative materials, durability, sustainability and ease of maintenance and cleaning.
Grand Prix
The judges will revisit the winners of each of the product categories and vote for the project they deem to be the best in show. This category not be entered directly.
