Call for Entries: 48th International Design Competition

The Retail Design Institute’s 48th annual design competition celebrates outstanding and innovative retail spaces that encourage new techniques in planning, design, graphics, fixturing, lighting and visual merchandising.

Design firms and in-house retail design teams from around the globe are invited to submit projects covering all retail formats. (No entries accepted from general contractors, allied trades, fixture manufacturers, material suppliers or owners’ representatives.) The competition celebrates exceptional retail experiences ranging from full-line traditional department stores to specialty apparel stores and restaurants to kiosks and pop-up shops. New for 2018: categories for Thought Ladership and Theoretical (unbuilt) work.

This year's competition entry process has been streamlined with submissions to include a 750-word narrative summary plus captioned images. Images (uploaded files should be less than 5 megs, and in RBG color format (jpeg or png). Images and floor plans are uploaded individually.

Eligible projects are those completed between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018. The competition portal closes Friday, February 15, 2019. Click here to be connected.

The “Class of 2018” (finalists for Best in Class award) will be announced in March 2019. The finalists will be celebrated along with the Store of Year (Best in Class) winner will be announced at the 48th Awards Gala. The Gala is scheduled for May 22, 2019 in New York City.

For more information, contact Janet Groeber; info@retaildesigninstitute.org