SEGD Announces 2006 Design Award Winners

SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design), an international non-profit educational foundation, announces 32 outstanding designs to receive recognition in the highly competitive SEGD Design Awards Program, which recognizes excellence in environmental graphic design.  The winning designs were selected from 357 entries received from around the world, including entries from Australia, Canada, India, the Netherlands, Korea, New Zealand, Qatar, Thailand, and the US.

Steven Stamper of fd2s chaired the event; the jurors were Chris Calori, Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants; Bill Hill, MetaDesign; Susan Lipka, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Isaac Marshal, Aldrich Pears Associates Ltd.; Jan Tribbey, Aveda (VM+SD Editorial Advisory Board member); and Kathy Wesselman, WPA, Inc.

Honor Awards
•    The Rwanda Healing Project, Cyanzarwe District, Rwanda; Barefoot Artists, Exton, PA
•    Lankenau Hospital Wayfinding System, Wynnewood, PA; AGS and ex;it, Exton, PA
•    NeXtwork Convention – Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, San Diego, CA; Two Twelve Associates, Inc., New York, NY
•    Jianianhua Building, Chongqing, China; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, San Francisco, CA
•    Think Modern/Think Classic: New Design Paradigms, New York, NY; Graham Hanson Design, New York, NY
•    Kent State University Academic All-American Athletic Center, Kent, OH; Amir Khosravi, MFA; Jerad Lavey, BFA, Kent State University
•    Bloomberg L.P. Corporate Headquarters, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Merit Awards
•    Holland Performing Arts Center, Omaha, NE; Poulin + Morris Inc., New York, NY
•    365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 365, New York, NY; Gensler Studio 585, Washington, DC
•    Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ; Hillier Environmental Graphic Design, Philadelphia, PA
•    The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Science Center, Hightstown, NJ; Hillier Environmental Graphic Design, Philadelphia, PA
•    Biotechnology Campus, Thousand Oaks, CA; Sussman/Prejza & Company, Culver City, CA
•    Eugene O’Neill in Danville, Danville, CA; The Office of Michael Manwaring, Portland, OR
•    Darwin, New York, NY; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
•    Eat and Be Eaten, Jersey City, NJ; Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ
•    Coast Restaurant, Sydney, Australia; Frost Design, Sydney, Australia
•    Frost*bite, Sydney, Australia; Frost Design, Sydney, Australia
•    John Glenn Institute Permanent Exhibition, Columbus, OH; Eyethink, Columbus, OH
•    Oxford Street Parking Facility, Cambridge, MA; Arrowstreet Graphic Design, Somerville, MA
•    Vespa Exhibit; Laurie Tappen, Stephanie Salerno, Sara Leventhal, Drexel University
•    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Pentagram Design, New York, NY
•    INFOTOGO Toronto Wayfinding System, Toronto, Canada; Kramer Design Associates, Toronto, Canada
•    Sankofa Place – Student and Affordable Housing, Chicago, IL; Anne Berry, Kristal Ernst, Kent State University
•    Better By Design Conference Signage, Auckland, New Zealand, Dean Poole, Auckland, New Zealand

Jury Awards
•    City of Newport Sign Program, Newport, RI; Roll Barresi & Associates, Cambridge, MA
•    A Sign of Democracy, Los Angeles, CA; C+G Partners, New York, NY
•    Official Signs & Icons 2; Ultimate Symbol Inc., Stony Point, NY
•    The Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg, PA; Purdy O’Gwynn Architects, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Lot with Little Awards
•    Arte & Frank Hairdressing Salon, Melbourne, Australia; Frost Design, Sydney, Australia
•    Friends of the Cerritos Library Donor Recognition Wall, Cerritos, CA; Studio Wilks, Los Angeles, CA
•    Esto Now: Photographers Eye New York, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Special Mention Award
•    Symbol Usage in Health Care; JRC Design, Phoenix, AZ

SEGD is an international non-profit educational organization providing resources for design specialists in the field of environmental graphic design, architecture, and landscape, interior, and industrial design.  SEGD members are leading designers of directional and attraction sign systems, destination graphics, identity programs, exhibits, and themed environments.

Environmental Graphic Design embraces many design disciplines including graphic, architectural, interior, landscape, and industrial design, all concerned with the visual aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and information, and shaping the idea of place.