(Above: 2020 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award Category Winner | Public Libraries – 30,000 sq. ft. and under | (Re)imagining The Community Library by RATIO w/ Nicole Snyder Interiors | Photo by: Gabe Border and Gibeon Photography)
Winning or placing in a competition enhances your firm’s portfolio, which can potentially attract more clients.
Awards offer credibility that may be attractive to clients—especially clients who are new to the process of selecting a design firm. Placing in a competition communicates with current and future clients that your design team is organized, has excellent follow-through, communicates well, takes pride in their work, and understands their strengths. If a competition publishes winning projects in major design publications, such as when our Will Ching Design Competition winners are featured in Interior Design magazine, this can also increase the traffic to your firm’s website and result in more interest.
Competitions connect you with the wider design community.
Many competitions and awards have both regional and international audiences and applicants, and when you apply to a design competition, you become a part of a robust network of professionals and designers. Competitions allow access to associations, organizations, design publications, and other firms. At a time when social distancing is the norm, a meaningful way to connect your firm to an external design community is more valuable than ever.
At IIDA we know that competitions are instrumental in supporting and celebrating our incredibly dynamic design community.
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For questions and more information regarding IIDA Design Awards and Competitions, please contact Veronica Whitaker at vwhitaker@iida.org.
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