Pebble Bench by Will Jiang

ENTRY CATEGORIES

Furniture Design of the Year: Professional

Emerging Furniture Designer of the Year: Student

The SIT Furniture Design of the Year Award and SIT Emerging Furniture Design of the Year recognize the efforts of talented furniture designers who improve and perfect the quality of design emitted by their designs. SIT Furniture Design Awards accepts submissions in the following categories:

CATEGORIES INCLUDE:

FURNITURE – SEATING

Chair	Executive chair	Working chair
Dining chair	Stacking Chair	Stool
Barstool	Armchair	Chaise Longue
Lounge chair	Bench	Recliner
Couch & Sofa	Console table	Bean Bag
Cushions

FURNITURE – BEDDING

Bed	Daybed	Futon
Convertible Bed	Hammock	Bunk beds
Other Beds

FURNITURE – LIGHTING

Desk lamp	Decorative Accent Lamp	Designer & Custom Lighting
Energy Saving Lighting	LED Lighting Products & Fixtures	Ambient Lighting
Pendant Lighting	Ceiling Lights	Other Lights

FURNITURE – TABLES AND DESKS

Desk	Computer desk	Table
Office table	Dining table	Bedside table
Low table	Coffee table	Kitchen table
Conference table	Folding table	Reception table
Bar table	Console table	Bathroom vanity
Others Tables/desks

BABY AND CHILDREN FURNITURE

Baby and Children table	Baby & Children chair	Baby & Children bed
Baby Crib & Bassinet	Baby playmat	Other children furniture

FURNITURE BY ROOM

Commercial furniture	Office furniture	Retail furniture
Bathroom furniture	Bedroom furniture	Living room furniture
Home office furniture	Kitchen furniture	Nursery furniture
Kids furniture	Others furniture

OUTDOOR FURNITURE

Outdoor chair	Outdoor Sofa & Bench	Outdoor table
Swimming Pool furniture	Garden furniture	Public park & Public area furniture
Other outdoor furniture

HOMEWARE AND DECORATION

Armoire & Closet	Bookcase	Cabinet
Wardrobe	Carpet	Rug & Runner
Curtains & Fabric	Cushion	Frame
Vase	Mirror	Accessories
Other Homeware

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Interior Design of the Year: Professional

Emerging Interior Designer of the Year: Student

The Interior Design of the Year Award and Emerging Interior Designer of the Year recognizes the people and practices striving towards excellence in furniture design implementation and application. The Conceptor, director, architect, engineer, interior designer, landscape architect, urban planner, etc., each creates a new space, atmosphere, and mood with their furniture. There would be no architectural, interior design, or landscape design achievements without the right furniture– which is the reason we want to recognize this essential part of the design process through the SIT Awards.

CATEGORIES INCLUDE:

House Interior Design	Apartment Interior Design	Residential Design
Office Design	Retails Design	Sales Office Design
Commercial Design	Mix Use Building: Residential and Commercial	Institutional Design
Hotel Design	Bar Design	Restaurant Design
Sport and Entertainment Spaces Design	Conceptual Designs	Exhibition Space Design
Public Space Design	Zones and Rooms Design	Others Interior Design

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Innovation Center – Winner of the Year – Professional

The SIT Furniture Design Award has created an “Innovation Center” focusing every year on a topic highlighting invention, look at today’s challenges, and how to overcome them. The winner of the “Innovation Center” will receive a grant of US$3000.00 to realize a prototype or start the production. The digital innovation center focuses this year on Smart Furniture.

Smart Furniture:
- Technology integration: Today’s integration of the “Internet of Things (IoT)” concept and services are growing exponentially. Let’s imagine, build, scale new innovative furniture’s and experiences improving our daily life. Smart furniture is equipped with either an intelligent system or is controller operated with the user’s data and energy sources
- Being Smart: Furniture that is adaptable such as easily moved around, adjusted, and changed, according to the situation. Furniture being multi-functions, extremely flexible, and gives you options in terms of usage, now and in the future. Let’s be creative! Today’s designers need to rethink space, usage, and durability.

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Submission tips to the SIT Furniture Design Award

We have created a list of the best tips to guide you through the submission process, step by step, making sure your design entry is strong and will have a positive impact on the Jury:

Complete your user/company profile. Our system provides an auto-generated invoice for your submission fees, so please add your company address, e-mail, VAT number, etc. Also, share your company information, and any previous awards won!
Since we have an international jury panel, the project description, credits, and other information need be written in English.
The entry description is one of the most essential parts of your submission, so make your description engaging and interesting; keep it succinct, but still, give as much information as possible; share the original idea for the design, the creative trigger, how it contributes to society or local communities, etc.
You can upload up to 10 images with each entry. Select some images that give an overall view of the product design, and others which are close-up picture. Please keep in mind that in case you have a winning submission, the cover image (the first image you upload) will be displayed on the website Winners Gallery and in the Annual SIT Digital Book, so it GFPuld be the image that best represents your entry overall.
Don’t forget you can also upload a PDF file with any additional project details, 3D drawings, product specifications, business plans, or any other information you may feel is important to share with the Jury. This is done on the Image Upload stage of the submission.
Credit all of the designers that took part in the project. You can also add photographer and model credits as appropriate.
Each submission category has many sub-categories for you to choose from and many entries would fit in multiple sub-categories. To increase your chance of winning we recommend that you enter the projects in more than 1 sub-category. A 50% discount is offered when entering your design in additional sub-categories.

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Submission requirements

The project must have been completed within the last 5 years
Provide a brief description of the design or implementation
Provide a Designer/ Student and/or Company Profile / University
Give names of those who need be credited for the design or product (i.e. company, designer, engineer, mentor, professor, etc.)
Up to 10 images of your lighting design, including an optional company logo
Product Specification PDF (Mainly for Product Design Category, but Spec Sheet can also be included for Implementation or manufacturing details used in the design) – recommended