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Los angeles, CAlifornia, APRIL 7, 2008

ida celebrates winners of land & Sea competition for sustainability at icff cocktail reception

The winners of the first International Design Awards' Land & Sea Competition for sustainability have been named! Judging of the work was rigorous. Exceptional work in architecture and the design of interior, products, graphic and fashion came into the IDA offices from about twenty countries, revealing a global emphasis on not only sustainable materials but also seamless, productive and inclusive integration into the social and cultural fabric of the project's community. Criteria included materials, holistic philosophy, feasability (if conceptual) and overall carbon footprint.

Jurors included Qingyun Ma, Dean of Architecture, University of Southern California; Gwynne Pugh, Pugh+Scarpa Architects; Newell Turner, Style Director, House Beautiful; Rido Busse, Chairman, German Industry and Trade Board; John Dunnigan, Chair, Department of Furniture, Rhode Island School of Design; and Melissa Sterry, CEO, Societas of London; and other leaders and editors in the design fields.

Winners will be celebrated at a cocktail and hors d'oeuvres reception at H.K. Lounge on Sunday, May 18 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The event is timed during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York: around the corner from the trade show at Jacob Javits Conventoin Center, the event promises to connect an international assembly of designers and consumers impassioned by sustainability and the feasability of green design.

H.K. is located at 405 W. 39th St at Ninth Ave., NYC 10018. To RSVP for the event, email info@idesignawards.com.

Congratulations to the 2008 Land & Sea Competition Winners, as follows:
Architecture, Land: Garden Spots, by Stefanie Werner. Werner has proposed a plan to turn green a ubiquitous unused urban surface: the back of billboards. She has, in essence, creating hanging gardens out of these commercial spaces inorder to offset the carbon footprint of the passing vehicles.

Architecture, Sea: Lillies, by Peter Richardson. The lillies are a conceptual integrated energy-generating system of lilly-shaped discs placed on rivers in order to harness the power of solar energy on a large scale.

Interior, Land: Les Indiennes, by Mary Bergtold-Mulcahy. Mulcachy is a textile designer who works with artisans in South India with SKAL-certified organic cotton, all-natural dyes and wood block prints: helping the village & over 50 families. No electricity is used in the process.

Interior, Sea: Icehotel bedroom, by Daniel Rosenbaum at Rosenbaum Design, Sydney, Australia. Each year a group of international artists and designers are commissioned to design and build from ice Sweden's Icehotel bedroom suites, luxury suites, a church, ice bar, lobby and reception, ice art exhibition space and an ice theatre that seats up to 300 people. At the end of winter the entire hotel melts away; an entirely new Icehotel is built each following year.

Product, Land: SWIFT Rooftop Wind Energy, by Jorji Frederiksen of Renewable Devices. The SWIFT™ is the world’s first specifically rooftop wind turbine with patented technologies for unprecedented safe, efficient and near silent operation.

Product, Sea: Frontrunner by Joey Ruiter, JRuiter + Studio: a futuristic look at recreational sea travel.

Graphics, Sea: Cahan Assocates created the annual report for The Gap, outlining the corporation's increasing devotion to fair trade and sustainable production practices.

Graphics, Land: Scott Abel of Definable Design, an intern graphic designer at Pentagram in San Francisco.

Fashion, Land: Eloise Grey, for her collection of ladies’ coats in organic tweed from the Isle of Mull. The fabrics support the continuity of knowledge of fine weaving and circle of life that organic practices sustain: embodying respect for the makers, the land, the art of weaving, tailoring and the process of trying and buying.

Fashion, Sea: Jenny White of Eco-Boudoir, for her collection of clothing that solely involves fair trade and sustainable materials and production processes. For example, she uses vegetable tanned leather as a bi-product of a free range goat and deer farm in Germany.

STUDENT AWARDS

Architecture, Sea, Student: London's Sabba Khan, who designed a coastal building to function as an Oyster Garden: a place where the harvesting and cultivating of oysters is regulated and monitored. The shell-like structure sits on the sea bed, while the spaces within fluctuate and respond to the tidal patterns of the river.

Graphics, Land, Student: Vincent Lo, who created a campaign to unify the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive standards for the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment, restricting the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyls.

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