Welcome to the annual Janine Stone Young Interior Designer Award 2012. This award was established to recognise, foster and promote the superb standard of emerging design talent across universities in the UK.
I have been most fortunate to enjoy over 25 years involvement in an industry that I am hugely passionate about. Design has always been at the very heart of my family and my path into the industry was aided by consistent nurturing, encouragement and support. It is within this same framework that I want to continue to help support the next generation of young design talent and potentially discover the most outstanding individuals of the future.
I believe this year’s brief for the 2012 award will test your creative design credentials and help you to demonstrate how you think the industry is continuing to evolve along with ideas that inform and inspire you.
I wish you the very best of luck with the competition.
Janine Stone
The Young Interior Designer Award was established to recognise the emerging talent of interior design students at universities across the UK. Accredited by the Society of British Interior Design, the award has created a platform and showcase for design students to present their work to an audience of potential employers with the aim of helping graduates into the industry. Individuals from more than 50 universities around the country are given an opportunity to compete in a national competition. The winner will receive a £10,000 cash prize and the opportunity to take up a six month paid internship at the London or Manchester studios of Janine Stone. In addition there are two runners up prizes of £1000 and a £1000 prize for the winner's university, and the next five highest placed entrants' universities, to spend on relevant materials for their design students. A further nine accredited places will be chosen by a judging panel of industry experts. For the opportunity to enter, please see conditions of entry.
Young Interior Designer Award 2012
For the purpose of this award we are asking you to design a 450 sq metre lateral apartment in a major city of the world. The apartment can have balconies and terraces up to a maximum of 100 sq metres. The height of the ceilings can be up to a maximum of 4 metres. There are no restrictions on the number of rooms or spaces within the apartment, provided it meets your client’s brief and design aspirations. The design of the apartment needs to reflect the culture of the city of your choice and the requirements of your client.
Your client can be a single person, a couple or family unit, with or without personal staff. The client can be a well known personality or someone fictitious.
What you will be presenting:
1. A detailed description of your client so that we may better understand your design. You should provide a brief explanation as to why you selected the city of your choice and how the culture of the city affected your design decisions.
2. A detailed floor-plan of the apartment and a furniture layout. Work should be presented on two A2 foam backed display boards. You can include mood boards, a montage of visuals, reference pictures, photography, computer generated images, product samples (please obtain permission for use) and swatches.
3. A visual and mood board of one of the main rooms and the master bathroom in the apartment.
4. Your ideas boards should be accompanied by either:
A synopsis of your work, not extending to more than 250 words on an A4 single sheet of paper; where you are introducing new design concepts, explain how and why you feel they will work
or:
A short filmed piece to camera where you explain your scheme and the inspiration behind it.
You can give consideration to an element of sustainability and any environmental benefits of your scheme. Although no budget is set, you can also identify the proposed cost of your scheme included within the synopsis. However these three elements are entirely optional for inclusion in your submission.
Please note:
Judges will be looking for a robust demonstration of your understanding of the brief and will be seeking a clear rationale for your creative design proposals. You will be judged on the quality and originality of your design, as well as the overall standard of your presentation.
To participate in the Young Interior Designer Award 2012, please be aware that you must meet the following criteria to be considered for entry:
You must currently be a final year design degree student, studying at a UK university.
Students can enter the Young Interior Design Award in one of two ways, either via an internal group competition set by your lecturer or course director as part of your curriculum or via single free entry which will need to be sponsored by your lecturer or course director. Please check with your lecturer if they plan to manage a group entry.
To enter as an individual graduate you should register your interest as a free entry candidate by completing the pre-entry form, which can be downloaded below. You will then be notified if your application to enter has been successful.
On entering the award you will be required to respond to a set brief. Your entry will then be judged against those of your peers and 25 submissions will go forward to the penultimate selection from which 12 entries will be chosen for display at the combined Judging and Awards ceremony to be held in April 2012. Judges will be looking for a clear response to the brief, supported by depth of creativity and an array of innovative and considered ideas.
Download an entry form here
Conditions of Entry for the Janine Stone
Young Interior Designer of The Year
Award 2012
1. Rules of Entry
- Any work entered must be signed by your course lecturer or a professional individual who will verify that this is your own work and was created without financial, commercial or professional assistance.
- You must submit just one entry per calendar year, per competition.
- All entries must be submitted on the official entry form which may be downloaded, printed and completed in full in ink or downloaded and completed using PDF writer. All submitted designs must be presented in the format outlined in the conditions of entry. Incorrectly formatted work will not be eligible for inclusion in the competition.
- The decisions of the judges are in all matters final and correspondence will not be entered into.
2. Entry pack requirements
Your award entry must be submitted in three sections:
- A completed entry form
- A synopsis of your design presented as a 250 word written piece or a short film
- 2 x A2 mounted foam display boards
Please take care when packing your entry. Ensure it is properly protected as severely damaged work will not be judged.
3. Closing Date
All entries must be submitted to Janine Stone, c/o Gillian Wheatcroft, The Old Imperial Laundry, 71/73 Warriner Gardens, London SW11 4XW by 5pm on the 31st January 2012.. Entries received after this date will not be accepted.
4. Publicity
By submitting your entry to the Janine Stone Young Interior Designer of the Year Award, you give permission for your work to be viewed by invited guests and the public and to be published to promote the award. Once submitted, the organisers cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage of entries or any supporting materials. No entry materials will be returned to entrants however, all entrants will be able to collect their work from the London offices of Janine Stone, date to be advised to the website: www.yida-award.co.uk
5. Contact
All enquiries should be directed to Gillian Wheatcroft at:
gillian@janinestone.com
Janine Stone is one of the UK's most respected architecture and interior design groups with offices in the UK, Russia and Italy employing a team of over 40 talented individuals across all disciplines of the business.
The company was established in 1985 and now operates almost exclusively in the luxury residential market, working for an international clientele on a portfolio of classic and contemporary homes. Janine Stone offers a variety of design and construction management services, in the creation of new private houses, the restoration and renovation of heritage properties and the design and decoration of existing homes.
www.janinestone.com
Janine Stone
Vanessa Brady
Wayne Hemingway MBE
Raymond Blanc OBE
Paula Pryke
Nicole Swengley
Dominic Lutyens
Dominic Lutyens
Dominic Lutyens is a leading arts and style writer. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle Decoration. He is also the co-author with Kirsty Hislop of the book 70s Style & Design (Thames & Hudson), about 1970s fashion and design, and of Celia Birtwell (Quadrille), a book about textile designer Celia Birtwell’s life and work.
Dominic regularly chairs seminars at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and been on the selection panel for craft fair, Origin. He has lectured on70s fashion and design at Central St Martins, London College of Fashion and for the University for the Creative Arts, Epsom.
Click here to download full judging panel for 2012
