All design trade professionals and firms working in the Portland Metro (including Vancouver, Washington) are eligible to enter. IDS affiliation is not required. All interior design projects completed by November 30, 2009, published and unpublished, are eligible.
Designers may not enter the same project in multiple categories or more than two projects per category. Every entrant must attend the awards banquet or send someone in his or her place to receive his or her award if chosen.
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All entries and fees must be received by 5:00 p.m. November 30, 2009.
If mailing your payment, make checks payable to IDS Portland. Entries received without payment will be disqualified. IDS members must submit $40 for dinner banquet ticket. Additional tickets can be purchased separately. Non IDS members must submit $85, which includes a dinner banquet ticket too.
Entrants grant producers of the IDS Portland Design Awards, the right to reproduce project images for promotional purposes. Producers also assume all entries are the works and property of the entrant and that clients of the assumed projects have given their permission for this entry. IDS Portland is not liable for any copyright infringement on the part of the entrant. Entry materials become the property of IDS Portland and will not be returned. Do not submit originals.
CATEGORIES AND JUDGING
Categories include Kitchen/Bathroom, Staging, Redesign for under $1000, Color and Living Space Design (any interior or outdoor living space). To ensure impartial judging, all of the entries are judged through an anonymous process by a select group of industry professionals from the Bay Area. Judges will consider creativity, proportion, composition, use of space, lighting, materials and appropriateness for each entry. Entries will be reviewed for functionality, innovation, use of materials, overall presentation and professional appeal. In the event of insufficient or inadequate entries, IDS Portland reserves the right to cancel the contest and refund entry fees or restructure the categories in such a way as to permit fair and proper judging of entries received. IDS Portland is not responsible for lost, misdirected or delayed mail.
PRIZES
Winners of the competition will be announced publicly at the IDS Portland Design Awards Gala, January 9, 2010. Following this event, the winning entries will be posted on IDS Portland’s website. One award will be given per winning category.
REQUIREMENTS
All materials must be included for consideration. Incomplete submissions will be disqualified.
- Entry Form: One copy of a completed IDS Portland Awards entry form-from this brochure or printed from online entry. The information will be reproduced in published materials exactly as it is written.
- Project Profile and Client Permission Form: Signed and completed.
- Images: A CD with the assigned number of digital images listed under each category. Digital images must be a minimum of 72 dpi and 1024×768 pixels – horizontal or vertical. OR Upload the assigned number of digital images listed with each category. Digital images uploaded should be a minimum of 640×480 pixels – horizontal or vertical. Label all image files for each category with the firm name and category name. (For example: Jones Design_kitchen_A, Jones Design_kitchen_B). To ensure fairness, no identifying marks are to appear on any submitted materials.
- Floor plans: An 8½ x 11 inch copy of the project floor plans with or without furnishings-you may use more than one page, but keep size to 8½ x 11 inch paper. Where available, provide pre- and post-remodel floor plans. Oversized or folded plans will be discarded.
- Fees: $40 for IDS members for one award banquet ticket, $85 fee for Non-IDS affiliates (includes one award banquet ticket). Check should be made payable to IDS Portland. Receipts will not be issued. Please use a copy of your entry form as your receipt. All fees are non-refundable.
DEADLINE
5:00 p.m. November 30, 2009
OFFICIAL ENTRY
Complete the following and submit your project materials and appropriate entry fee. There is no limit to the number of entries, but no more than two projects per category. Entry form may be duplicated for additional entries.