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CATEGORIES & RULES FOR ENTERING

The IDI awards have been reviewed and updated for 2023, with more awards than ever before! 

Read through the categories and consider which of your projects to enter.  You can enter the same project into more than one category if it meets the criteria. The more you enter, the greater your chance of success! 

PRICE PER ENTRY

IDI Members – €100
Non-members – €200
First time entrants (subject to verification) – €50 per entry

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Special Criteria

Sustainable Design

This special criteria recognises that to achieve excellence, design must be sustainable in how it is devised and delivered. Entrants across all categories are invited to show evidence that the concepts and principles of sustainable design are embodied within the project.

FASHION, TEXTILES AND JEWELLERY DESIGN

This category is for fashion design incorporating both ready-to-wear and bespoke, across womenswear, menswear and gender neutral practices.

This category is for the design of fabrics; woven, knitted, printed, embroidered, mixed media and fabric manipulation. Finished textile product for fashion, interiors or other uses may be submitted.

This category is open to all fashion accessories including bags, belts, footwear, fashion jewellery, hats and scarves.

This category is open to jewellery makers working with semi- precious or precious metals and/ or semi- precious or precious stones as their primary materials.

PRODUCT

This category is for any product that has been designed for and released into the commercial market. Products that will be sold, purchased and used by consumers such as electronics, household items, appliances, etc.

Candidates can submit any products for the non-consumer market, including industrial, heavy equipment and transport. Installations, machinery, industrial or contractor equipment, a product used by businesses.

This category is for pieces of bespoke or commercially produced furniture or lighting.

This category welcomes realised products by professional medical designers. Legally approved consumer healthcare products, medical devices, equipment, and tools are allowed, including any type of research equipment or instrument. Products with pending patents or approvals, as well as medicines or drugs, are not eligible.

Experience Design

The application of design to create and improve complex experiences which exist across a wide range of touchpoints and systems. People-centred, this includes those who deliver services and experiences and well as those who use them, and extends to the systems and structures that make impactful organisations tick.

Connected experiences which inspire and engage across multiple touch points including physical spaces and digital channels. The jury are looking for excellence in seamless end-to-end experience design which surprises and delights customers, visitors, or users, be that in retail, tourism, or another business or sector.

Communication Design

This category celebrates new branding schemes for organisations of all sizes, and includes work by in-house teams.

This category is for branding schemes that are updated to maintain a tangible connection to an existing approach – through evolved visual language which maintains key elements from the previous iteration. This includes work by in-house teams.

This category celebrates how brand strategy can redefine a brand, reposition it and deliver a robust creative brief which in turn delivers a successful brand identity.

This category includes packaging for consumer goods of all kinds.

This category includes design with an output in print on paper or a similar material, with the exclusion of books and packaging (each have their own category). The category includes: annual reports, documents, magazines, newspapers, stamps, posters, flyers, and stationery.

This category is for any commercially available books – educational, text, children’s, art, coffee table etc.

This category includes narrative, or non-interactive moving image and motion Design, including: Title Design, Animated Short Films (<10 minutes).

DIGITAL

This category includes newly launched websites of all kinds.

This category celebrates websites that are maintained and managed to a high standard, and which have evolved in their design, structure or use of technology.

This category includes eCommerce work across devices, to include Websites, Mobile and Tablet Apps, Retail Displays and Kiosks.

This category includes native mobile and tablet apps.

This category includes design for services and tools that meet a need for the user, for example: tools for collaboration, financial services, management, reporting, and production.

This category includes digital design systems created for use in a new website, a website update, replatforming projects, on an app or online services and tools.

This category includes design work for social media, including individual post and campaigns.

This category includes any interactive experience created primarily to be experienced on a screen or on an internet-connected device, including: Websites, Mobile and Tablet Apps, Retail Displays and Kiosks, Social Media Campaigns, Gaming, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality

Creative Practice and Collaboration

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where imagery is an intrinsic element of the design solution. These could take the form of photography, illustration, CAD, drawings and other visuals developed to support the design communication

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where copywriting is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

In this category entrants are asked to submit illustrations used commercially or in a publishing context, including outputs for screen, print and environmental applications.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where typography and/or lettering is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where data and information visualisations in any medium is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where use of technology is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

STRUCTURES AND SPACES

This category celebrates the achievements in interior design of retail spaces, including shops, concessions, shopping centres, showrooms, sales centres, niche shop offerings, foodhalls and forecourts.

This category celebrates the achievements in the interior design of hospitality spaces including hotels, guest houses, hostels, cafes, bars, restaurants, clubs, and cinemas.

Projects in this category will be interiors designed for commercial use. Entries may include offices, cultural spaces, educational buildings, public amenities, government buildings, leisure spaces and health and wellness spaces.

This category is for any commercial architecture project. Entries may include offices, cultural spaces, educational buildings, hospitality spaces, retail, public amenities, government buildings, leisure spaces and health and wellness spaces.

This category is for any individual interior for residential use and includes renovations, extensions, and alterations to existing residences.

This category is for any individual residential architecture project.

This award will recognise design and architecture that demonstrates high levels of user satisfaction and comfort for any multi-residential architecture project. This category is for any multi-dwelling interior or series of interiors for residential use and includes renovations, extensions, and alterations to existing residences.

This category is for all temporary or permanent exhibition and set designs and pop up experiences including stage, television and film sets, commercial and non-commercial exhibitions, expos, visitor attractions, festivals, and trade shows.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work that has been constrained by space/site conditions but have achieved a level of invention, creativity, and crafts. Projects of all functional types across design and architecture may be considered.

This award celebrates several teams from different disciplines who come together to achieve excellence in a Structures and Spaces project.

Design Practice

This award recognises a business or team that has demonstrated a real commitment to learning, resulting in a measurable impact in the business.

This award recognises this year’s Design Practice Team of the Year.

This award recognises this year’s In-House Team of the Year.

Special Awards

This category recognises innovative work by educators who are Institutional IDI members. Entries should go further than day-to-day teaching activities within an institution but rather should demonstrate innovative pedagogical practices, partnerships within a commercial or social context, design research, and collaborative or interdisciplinary approaches. Projects should show the impact of design and engage with learner groups in a meaningful way. The award recognises the role design education, and individual educators, play in shaping the future of the design sector. (Individual student work should not form part of the entry)

A Universal Design should be easy to Access, Understand and Use by a wide range of people.

The Universal Design is a free extra (opt-in) IDI Award category.

To qualify for a Universal Design award (opt-in), you must include the words “Universal Design” as part of the text about your entry.

Judges will evaluate a qualifying entry based on how clearly you show that you followed a Universal Design Approach – the extent to which you have considered and addressed the more diverse needs, abilities and characteristics of users throughout the design process (Age, Size, Ability and Disability).

Judges will also be looking for you to clearly show that your entry aligns with at least 4 of the 7 Principles of Universal Design by identifying the design features and elements that specifically achieve the relevant Universal Design Guidelines.

NOTE 1: Access, Understand and Use is about how people generally interact with or experience a design: first they Access it (approach and perceive); secondly, they Understand it (comprehend and decide); and thirdly they Use it (act or react).

NOTE 2: Terms such as “Design for All”, “Universal Design”, “accessible design”, “barrier-free design”, “inclusive design” and “transgenerational design” are often used interchangeably with the same meaning. (“Universal Design” is the term used in Ireland and in related international publications.)

Find information about Universal Design at: https://universaldesign.ie/what-is-universal-design/

The aim of this award is to discover and celebrate new design industry stars who identify as female. It is open to those who have been in the Irish design industry for up to five years, regardless of age.

The aim of this award is to recognise and and celebrate designers from communities who have been historically overlooked or marginalised in design practice. This award will be presented to a named individual on the team.

This awards an outstanding client who has shown continual support for and understanding of the value that design brings to brands/products and organisations.

This award will go to a design project that has made the world a better place by bringing about positive societal, political or environmental change. The projects could be based on fundraising, building awareness or meeting a physical need.

Awards rules:

THIS COMPETITION IS FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGNERS ONLY

This competition is open to both IDI Members and non-members who are professional designers.

This is NOT a competition for Undergraduates or anyone graduating in 2023 from a Bachelor or Master’s Degree.

This competition is for professional designers based on the island of Ireland, and Irish designers based abroad.

All competition entries must be via IDI’s online award system only. Entrants need to register an account on this site. Once your account is acknowledged you will be able to enter as many entries as you like as long as they fit the category criteria and rules, and the fee is paid.

All entries must be paid for in advance of judging at the time of entering.

Work must have been completed between 1 September 2022 to 30 July 2023. This means it must have been launched, published, manufactured, constructed, developed or printed within that time frame.

No conceptual work will be accepted. Completed projects only.

Work previously entered and created for previous IDI Awards is ineligible, including projects where alterations have been made.

The IDI jury has the right to query if an entry is eligible for these awards. The IDI and Judges reserve the right to withdraw a category and refund the entries where judges feel there is not sufficient competition, or to amend/merge categories where relevant.

The judges’ decision is final. They reserve the right to not award in any category should they feel the work does not match the judging criteria or meet an exceptional standard.

No correspondence will be entered into regarding entries.

Each category carries specific information on allowed attachments, and the technical and description requirements. Please complete each field according to the specific guidance for that category.

IDI acknowledges and agrees to maintain high standards of integrity and intellectual property rights of an entry at all times.

CLOSING DATE: FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER

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