Since
1987, the
SEGD Global Design Awardshave set the standard of excellence for environmental graphic design and experiential graphic design, honouring design work that connects people to place by providing direction, content, and compelling experiences in public spaces.
Winning projects have ranged from interactive multimedia environments to complex hospital way-finding systems and from branded corporate environments to museum exhibitions. Retail and interior projects, architectural signing, public art, design research, and books have also won awards.
There are seven main categories:
•
Digital Experience•
Exhibition•
Interactive Experience•
Placemaking and Identity•
Public Installation•
Strategy/Research/Planning•
WayfindingA multi-disciplinary jury representing practitioners from a diversity of design disciplines, as well as clients, users, and students, will evaluate the submissions and select winning projects based on their effectiveness in connecting people to place, creating a unique and memorable user experience, and solving the client’s objectives and design challenge.
There is no limit on the number of projects that can be entered by an individual or firm. Projects must have been completed between
January 1, 2016and
December 31, 2018. Projects can be submitted by
SEGDmembers and
non-SEGDmembers.
Please note: the deadline for submissions to the awards is
January 31, 2019, but submissions will be accepted with late fees through
February 14, 2019.
Eligibility
Open worldwide to: Environmental graphic designers, Graphic artists, Architects, Exhibit designers, Media developers, Landscape architects, Industrial designers, Interior designers, Fabricators, Clients and Students.
Student work is defined as work done in
2017or
2018by full-time students enrolled in a recognised design program.
Prize
and
Merit awardswill be named in each of the categories and a
Best in Show Awardwill also be selected. Winning projects will be featured in
eg magazine, SEGD's award-winning journal of environmental graphic design, and on the
SEGDwebsite.
SEGDwill also distribute press releases to various media outlets announcing the award winners.
Moreover, winners will be honoured at the
SEGD Global Design Awards Celebrationduring the SEGD Conference,
June 6-8, 2019in Austin; attendance is a requirement of winning.