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Nov 18, 2024 Competitions

IIDA Announces Winners of Second Annual WestEdge Design Fair Product and Booth Awards

CHICAGO (November 15, 2024) — The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is honored to announce the winners of the second annual design competitions: the IIDA/WestEdge Design Fair Product Awards and the IIDA/WestEdge Design Fair Booth Awards. Winners of the Product Awards are recognized for excellence in aesthetics, design, creativity, and function, as well as the suitability of the design solution to the product challenge. Winners of the Booth Awards are awarded for their originality and visual impact with emphasis on materials, space, color, texture, lighting, and graphics. All entries were evaluated by a panel of distinguished design industry experts during the WestEdge Design Fair Los Angeles showcase.

Nov 12, 2024 Competitions

IIDA Announces Best of Competition and Transformation and Innovation Award Winners for the 13th Annual Healthcare Design Awards

CHICAGO (November 11, 2024) — International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is excited to announce the Transformation and Innovation Award winner and the Best of Competition winner for the 2024 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards. The Transformation and Innovation Award winner is IKM Architecture for the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Forbes Hospital Emergency Department Behavioral Health Suite (Monroeville, PA). This year’s Best of Competition winner is Perkins&Will for the Whitman-Walker Health, Max Robinson Center (Washington, D.C.).

Oct 22, 2024 Competitions

Winners Named for the 13th Annual Healthcare Design Awards

CHICAGO (Oct. 22, 2024) — International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is excited to announce the winners of the 2024 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards. These awards recognize design firms for creativity and innovation in the design of healthcare facilities across fourteen categories within Ambulatory, Extended Care and Assisted Living Facilities, and Hospitals.

Jul 1, 2024 Competitions

IIDA and ALA Honor 2024 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards Best of Competition Winner

CHICAGO (July 1, 2024) — International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are pleased to honor firm Gensler in collaboration with Luckett & Farley as the Best of Competition winner of the 2024 ALA/IIDA Library Design Awards for the Western Kentucky University Commons at Helm Library interior renovation.

Jun 17, 2024 Programs

IIDA Launches Certified Design Futurist Program to Advance the Design Profession

CHICAGO (June 17, 2024)— The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is excited to announce the launch of the IIDA Certified Design Futurist program – a first-in-class educational opportunity, expanding the forward-looking nature of design into a core foresight capability that provides significant value to designers, firms, and their clients. The dynamic CDF curriculum was developed in an exclusive partnership with the Future Today Institute. FTI Founder and CEO Amy Webb, a world-renowned quantitative futurist, as well as FTI Senior Foresight Manager and IIDA Futurist-in-Residence Mark Bryan, collaborated with IIDA on a program based on FTI’s research-backed, proven methodologies.

Jun 17, 2024 Competitions

IIDA Announces Recipients of the 2024 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards

CHICAGO (June 17, 2024) — IIDA and the American Library Association (ALA) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Library Interior Design Awards. This biennial competition recognizes excellence in library interior design and promotes examples of extraordinary design reflected through innovative concepts in seven categories.

Jun 10, 2024 Competitions

IIDA Announces Best of Competition Winner for the 50th Annual Interior Design Competition

CHICAGO (June 10, 2024) — IIDA is pleased to announce the Best of Competition winner for one of the most prestigious industry recognitions: the 2024 Interior Design Competition, celebrating innovative interior design and architecture. The 2024 Interior Design Competition Best of Competition winner is Bates Smart in association with KCCT for the firm’s work on The Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C.

Jun 10, 2024 Competition, Awards

IIDA Announces Winners of the 2024 IIDA Showroom and Booth Design Competition

CHICAGO (June 10, 2024) — The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is honored to announce the winners of the 2024 IIDA Showroom and Booth Design Competition for their originality of design, visual impact, and effective use of materials. Criteria for the annual competition are based on the outstanding use of space, color, texture, lighting, and graphics in showrooms and booths at NeoCon.