PAVE 2017 Student Design Competition

The annual

, now in its 23rd year, is geared toward college-level students involved in retail planning, visual merchandising, and branding programs.

invites participants to develop concepts that expand the platforms and expressions in which

serves a college campus. Explore new ways of creating an experience that is more than just a transaction of food.

Design expectations for this year's PAVE competition include:

• Pushing the envelope of what the current experience is today

• Shaping the future and capturing possibilities

• Expanding the way

engages their guests with a new portfolio of experiences

• Providing powerful thought and design that is a collaboration or combination of design fields- architecture, interior design, visual merchandising and graphic design.

Traditionally, the

competition is divided into two groups; Store Design and Visual Merchandising. This year, they are integrating the disciplines into a single challenge and inviting students to consider the full spatial context and leverage their primary area of design interest and/or collaborate with other design disciplines.

Entry teams of two students will be accepted as well as individual student entries. If a team of two is selected as a winner, both students will be recognised.

There is no entry fee.