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GRAY Awards trophies are custom-designed by acclaimed glass artist John Hogan. Photographed by Hank Drew Photography.

ABOUT

8th Annual GRAY Awards

Recognizing the best.

Gold star-worthy is the centerpiece of GRAY Awards: a competition celebrating the world’s most creative projects in architecture, interiors, landscape, and product design. Winners are local, regional, national, and international designers.

 

The entry portal open now.

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT

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Reviewed by peers.

Who better to weigh in on the best designs in the world than your peers? Each member of the panel scores the “judges” categories on a scale of 1-10. Top combined score wins. This year’s panel includes:

JUDGES
KEY DATES

Note: New Dates

Key dates.

Entry portal open thru: November 15, 2024

Finalists announcements: Feb. 2025– Mar. 2025

People's Choice voting: February 2025

Winners announced: March 2025

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Categories

The categories.

Judges categories
(trophy winners). 

 

Architecture, commercial

Architecture, residential

Interior Design, commercial

Interior Design, residential

Landscape Design

Product Design, lighting

Product Design, furniture

Product Design, other

Wild Card, open category (realized or conceptual)

Student, open category (realized or conceptual)

Breakout categories. 

 

Design for Good - a designed project/product that has made a positive impact on a humanitarian, community, or environmental issue.

Visionary - A designer or specific architectural, interior, landscape, or product design (realized or conceptual) that exemplifies innovative thinking in a game-changing manner.  

Bath

Collaboration

Health + Wellness

Historic Renovation

Home Office

Hospitality

Hotel or Resort

Institution

Kitchen

Mixed-use Development

On the Boards

Outdoor Living

Retail or Showroom

Small Space

Surface Material

Textile, Wallcovering, or Rug

Transportation

Workplace

Legacy Award. 

A lifetime achievement recognition.

In homage to the place GRAY calls home, this honor is reserved for a designer based in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. We welcome your nominations. 

Eligibility

Judging criteria. 

  • Aesthetic quality

  • Exceptional style.

  • Overall creativity.

  • Function.

  • Innovation.

Eligibility. 

We accept products that have been fully realized after June 2022. For the Landscape category, projects must be realized after June 2020

With the exception of Wild Card, Student, Visionary, and On the Boards categories, all projects must be fully realized (not conceptual). 

Design Students must be enrolled in an architecture or design program at time of entry or graduated from design program in 2024.

A single project can be entered into any or all categories they are eligible for including judges categories and breakout categories.

 

You may submit projects that have been entered in past GRAY Awards providing they still meet eligibility requirements. 

See full guidelines, terms + conditions, FAQs here.

“I am so honored. GRAY magazine has become such a great treasure to the design world... an award like this means so much to me and to the people that I work with. It just encourages us to keep doing what we do everyday of the year.” 
— Jim Olson, FAIA, Olson Kundig, 2020 GRAY Awards Legacy Honoree
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2022 GRAY Awards Party

Photo: Into Dust Photography

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