Премия «Новатор года» – 3000 CHF. Победители в других категориях получают трофей SIT Awards, и широкое освещение в СМИ. Кроме того, существует награда за вклад в профессию для дизайнеров с опытом работы не менее 40 лет
жюри:
Alain Gilles – Alain Gilles Studio, Founder and Lead Designer (Belgium)
Bo Zhang – Desz Office, Artist & Chief Designer (UNITED STATES)
Niko Kapa – Studio Niko Kapa, Design Director (United Kingdom)
Christina Chen-chiao Kuo – Kuuo Living Limited, Creative Director & Founder (Canada)
Nataly Bolshakova – Bolshakova Interiors, Founder and Lead Designer (Ukraine/France)
Steven Yeung – Kar, Founder (Hong Kong)
Zhou Yi – Dayi Design, Chief designer (China)
Lilian González-González – Industrial Design Academic Coordinator at Anáhuac University of México (Mexico)
Jing Ju – JUJU Studio, Design Director (UNITED STATES)
Meghan Preiss – Board Member of World Design Organization, Manager of CX Design Integration at Delta Airlines (UNITED STATES)
Barend Slabbert – University of Derby, Senior Lecturer - Interior Design (United Kingdom)
Nima Bavardi – KIOSKedia International Academy and Magazine, Head of Industrial Design Department (Turkey)
Wouter Myny – Inventas, Team lead industrial design (Norway)
Stella Hernandez – ArtCenter College of Design, Assistant Professor, Environmental Design Department (UNITED STATES)
Fabio Colturri – Istituto Marangoni Milano Design, Professor (Italy)
Rozina Spinnoy – Belgium Design Council, Managing Director (Belgium)
Matteo de Bartolomeis – IFDM, Publishing Coordinator (Italy)
Robyn Self – Plan-IT Design and IID – The African Institute of the Interior Design Professions, Founder and Director (South Africa)
Christoph Guenther – Dutch East Design, Product and Interior Designer (United States)
Sébastien Maleville – Essential Studio, Co-Founder & Creative Director (Thailand)
Zhou Wen Jun – Zhou Wen Jun ® Design , 524 STUDIO ® , NGISED.DESIGN ®, Founder and Design Director (China)
Fabrizio Constanza – Fabrizio Constanza Design, Founder and Director (Guatemala)
Radhika Seth – Yanko Design, Vice President of Sales (India)
Michele Blasilli – Swarovski, Senior Lead Designer (Austria)
Juan Mellen – Design Institute of Spain (DIOS), President (Spain)
Jason Wang – APDC Asia Pacific Design Center, Secretary-General (China)
Премия призвана отметить выдающиеся достижения в области мебельного дизайна. Награды вручаются лучшему проекту и лучшему дизайнеру, а также за внедрение инноваций. Отдельные номинации предусмотрены для студентов. Представленные проекты должны быть выполнены не более 5 лет назад.
SIT Furniture Design Award™ exists to recognize, celebrate, and promote brilliant international Furniture Designers, Brands, Manufacturers, Emerging talents as well as Visionaries enhancing our daily life with innovation. SIT focuses on “Seat and Beyond”, rewarding strategic thinking and imagination which goes into making great equipment.
The prize is open to submissions on a global level, accepting entries from Designers and Emerging Talent from all around the world.
SIT Furniture Design Award has created a digital “Innovation Center” focusing every year on 3 topics to highlight invention, look at today’s challenges, and how to overcome them. The winner of the “Innovation Center” will receive a cash prize to realize a prototype or start the production.
Winners are selected by our esteemed jury of creative minds and leaders in the Industrial Designers world. They will receive the SIT trophy, a Digital brochure feathering their entry, be invited to the Bi-Annual winner reception as well as extensive publicity exposing their designs to a worldwide audience…and more benefits.