Shop! Association Design Awards Deadline Draws Near

The deadline for the Shop! Association’s annual Design Awards is quickly approaching, and we’re looking for your store design submissions! Celebrating achievements in areas such as new store designs, fixtures, renovations, visual presentations and in-store communications, Shop! Design Awards entries are cited for excellence in design, originality in use of space and materials, and quality of concept execution. Submissions should have been complete in 2025, between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2025. The deadline for submissions is January 23.

Learn more or submit your entry here.

Two other awards programs are also available for entries, including the Shop! Association Global Awards and Outstanding Merchandising Achievements (OMA) Awards. Now in its 68th year, OMA is one of the largest and longest-running awards contest in the industry, recognizing and honoring excellent displays that set merchandising and design precedents (deadline: Feb 6.). The Global Awards recognizes excellence in point-of-purchase advertising display, in-store marketing and shop activations and retail design. This competition welcomes gold award-winning projects from individual Shop! affiliates’ awards and gold winners from OMA and Design Awards (deadline: Feb. 6).

All winners will be celebrated on-site during the 2026 Shop! MarketPlace trade show and conference taking place in New Orleans this May 6-7.

For more information, please visit shopassociation.org.