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Two For One: The Great Look Back

North office by Skylab - Portland Spaces Root Award Winner

What was doing in architecture in Portland in 08? If you missed the AIA/IIDA awards AND Portland Spaces‘ design awards, the Root Awards–both surveying and calling out great architecture, interiors, sustainable projects with Spaces going beyond to include construction and industrial design–all is not lost. A joint exhibition of award winners opens this Thursday, December 4 at the at the AIA Portland Center for Architecture (403 NW 11th) with a reception from 5:30-8:30 PM.

More from the press release:

-Portland Spaces magazine’s 2008 Root Award winners

Spaces’ inaugural design competition celebrates the finest work from our city’s leading architects, designers, builders, and artisans. Five nationally acclaimed jurors selected more than 20 winners in residential, commercial, and institutional categories based on the local traditions that have long distinguished Portland architecture and building: timeless aesthetics, fine craftsmanship, and a commitment to sustainability. Through the Root Awards event, Spaces has raised more than $15,000 to award to our area’s top students in the fields of design and construction.

-The Portland AIA/IIDA 2008 Design Awards winners

For the past three years, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Portland Chapter and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Oregon Chapter have teamed up for a joint awards celebration that coincides with each organization’s annual design awards program. In addition to the IIDA’s and the AIA’s juried awards, a People’s Choice award is given to a recipient chosen by the public, and Portland’s mayor selects the winner of the Mayor’s Award for Design Excellence.

Plus, the winners of the What Makes It Green? competition, sponsored by the AIA Seattle Committee on the Environment, will be exhibited. The What Makes It Green? Top Ten Regional Green Awards, now in their 10th year, recognize the best in innovative, sustainable design and promote the importance of green building, livable communities, and social equity.

The exhibition is sponsored by Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects and BetterBricks.

POSTED: December 3rd, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: , , , , | No Comments »

Call for Entries: Independent Handbag Designer Awards

design: Nina Rosen, Nina Perrera Handbags
design: Nina Rosen, Nina Perrera Handbags, finalist 2007 Independent Handbag Designer Awards

To all of you Rocky Balboa’s in accessories design, here’s a competition for you. Website Handbag Designer 101 has opened submissions for its Second Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards™. There isn’t a monetary prize, but the overall winner gets a free booth at the WWDMAGIC Accessories Show in Vegas in August ($6000) and finalists can offer their bags on the website Bag, Borrow, or Steal and will have their work displayed in a window at Henri Bendel.

The website provides detailed requirements for each of the following categories of the competition: Best Student Made Handbag, Best Handmade Handbag, Most Socially Responsible Handbag, Best Green Handbag, Audience-Selected Handbag, Best Handbag in Overall Style & Design. There is no application fee, and entry is as simple as uploading a jpeg of your design. Deadline for entries is 11:59 on April 18.

POSTED: March 20th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: , | 3 Comments »