The Institute’s 49th International Design Competition dealdine for entries has been extended to Monday, March 2, 2020.
The association's annual design competition celebrates outstanding and innovative retail spaces that encourage new techniques in planning, design, graphics, fixturing, lighting and visual merchandising, to be considered as a whole.The Institute welcomes projects opened January 1 to December 31, 2019. There are more than 20 separate entry categories broken into broad retail concepts including: Brand & Brand Activation; Consumer Products & Lifestyle; Food & Beverage; Service Retail; and Unbuilt & Conceptual. Entries must include from 8 to 12 captioned images and a 750-word narrative outlining the project goals and objectives in addition to details about planning, customer journey, materials, lighting, fixturing and visual merchandising.
Contract design firms and in-house retailer design teams from around the globe are invited to submit projects covering all retail formats. (No entries accepted from general contractors, allied trades, fixture or visual merchandising manufacturers, material suppliers or owners’ representatives.) The competition seeks to recognize exceptional retail experiences ranging from full-line traditional department stores to specialty apparel stores and restaurants to kiosks and pop-up shops.
Register here: https://retaildesigninstitute.org/retail-design-competitions/#!event/2019/8/1/call-for-entries-49th-international-design-competition