Portland Spaces’ Root Awards will honor work by Portland architects, builders, interior designers, landscape designers, craftspeople in an ambitious, exhaustive, exhausting list of categories. Considering this is Year One for what amounts to All Portland Design All-Stars awards, it’s verging on crazy to include this many categories, a gigantic undertaking. Good news is that it throws the doors wide open for a million-and-one projects to be considered for “design, craftsmanship, and sustainability” by a national panel of judges including Karrie Jacobs, Katherine Lambert, Iris Harrell, and Dennis Allen.
This is not just provincial backpatting. Awards are news, giving more publications from beyond PDX good reasons to consider Portland design in their pages. The side benefits include more conversation within Portland about issues around good design as well as who’s doing what.
For the multiple other categories under the umbrella of “Design In The Streets,” appreciators and noticers of design are invited to send in photos of the “original” and the “beautiful” in Portland for possible inclusion in the magazine’s “tour of creativity” in Portland, from bus stop to front porch to topiary.
Submissions are open for work completed in the past three years and winners will be honored at a little party and in the Nov/Dec 08 issue of the mag. See The Root Awards website for entry details.
Proceeds will benefit a new series of scholarships in the study of design and construction in an excellent bit of loop-closing.
Deadline is July 14 2008. Win one for the home team.
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