By Shawn Williams
Updated: Aug 28, 2021
SEATTLE, WA — May 2017 — GRAY Magazine is thrilled to announce the GRAY Awards — a cross-disciplinary design competition. Ten distinguished GRAY Award winners — chosen by an esteemed panel of international design stars — will be honored at the design party of the year and unveiled in their full visual splendor in GRAY’s high-profile December/January issue.
JUDGING PANEL:
Phillippe Starck, STARCK
Ingo Maurer, Ingo Maurer
Deborah Berke, Deborah Berke Partners and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture
Karim Rashid, Karim Rashid
Vicente Wolf, Vicente Wolf Associates
James Corner, Founder and Director of Field Operations
Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht, Principals of LA-based Commune Design
Fashion industry judge to be announced
CATEGORIES:
Architecture: Residential
Architecture: Commercial
Interiors: Residential
Interiors: Commercial
Landscape: Civic & Residential
Fashion: Apparel & Accessories
Product Design: Lighting & Furniture
Product Design: Other
Student Design
Wild Card (open category)
+ Design for Good
For the Design For Good category, GRAY editors will cull nominations and recognize a project, product, or individual that makes a positive impact through design on a social, humanitarian, community, or environmental issue.
GRAY Award winners will be revealed November 29, 2017 in a buzzy, much-anticipated party at the prestigious new SLS Seattle hotel, designed by Philippe Starck and ZGF Architects. Breaking all the rules of traditional awards programming, GRAY will surprise attendees with a splashy big reveal. Winners will receive a custom-designed contemporary glass art trophy, handcrafted exclusively for the GRAY Awards by John Hogan, the critically acclaimed Seattle-based artist and product designer.
The 10 GRAY Award winners—alongside a robust selection of best-of “Editor’s Picks” and a “Design for Good” honoree, each selected from among the full spectrum of submissions—will additionally be featured in editorially produced, in-depth stories in GRAY’s December/January issue, dedicated to spotlighting the Northwest’s most innovative and envelope-pushing design.
GRAY has selected The BLOCK Project as its charitable partner to receive 50% of the GRAY Awards Party ticket proceeds. The BLOCK Project, a non-profit program started by architects and dedicated to alleviating homelessness in Seattle.
For more information visit grayawards.com
Submissions Open: May 31, 2017
Early-bird Submissions Due: June 31, 2017
Final Submissions Due: August 1, 2017
Winners Announced: November 29, 2017
GRAY AWARDS PARTY
SLS Hotel // 801 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104
November 29, 2017 // Time TBD
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