Press Contact: 1st Annual International Design Awards Party Happening During ICFF Design Week(Los Angeles) April 19 – The first annual International Design Awards (iDA) is honoring selected projects entered in the first annual competition at a cocktail party at Splashlight Studios in New York on Monday, May 21, bringing distinguished jurors together with the winners and elite members of the design and architecture press nationwide to recognize the world’s most visionary design minds. The event is timed during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which brings about 30,000 designers and design fans from around the world to New York for a trade fair, design discussions, parties and creative brainstorming about design of furniture, spaces, products and architecture. Jurors to be judging the work in the architecture, interior, graphic, product and fashion categories include famed interior designer Kelly Wearstler; House Beautiful Senior Style Director Newell Turner; Los Angeles Times WEST Magazine Style Editor Barbara Thornburg; David Hertz, AIA; Gwynne Pugh, AIA; Josh Rubin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, cool hunting; Lee Carter, Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director, hintmag.com; Rido Busse, celebrated product designer for Krups and professor at Ulm Design School in Germany; and Rose Apocada, former West Coast Bureau Chief for WWD. Extended deadline for entry in the 2007 International Design Awards is June 1, 2007. To enter, visit www.idesignawards.com. The May 2007 party is the first event leading up to the May 2008 iDA Gala at the American Airlines Theater in New York. The black tie event will feature famous keynote speakers, and will bring to the stage the winners of the 2008 competition. The International Design Awards began as a consortium of artists and entrepreneurs who wanted to bring deserved market attention to the world’s greatest designers. Before the iDA, founder Hossein Farmani established the Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious photography awards. # # #
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