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INTRODUCTION

There are 7 Primary Categories that attract entry fees. Look at the Primary Categories to select the most appropriate for your project. Where relevant, projects may be entered into more than one Primary Category and each entry would require a separate entry submission and fee.

There are 4 Optional Categories that are free when entering a Primary Category. To be considered for these you must supply the relevant details when you prepare your Primary Category submission/s (ie on the same entry form and CD)

There are 4 Automatic Categories that are free when entering a Primary Category

PRIMARY CATEGORIES (ENTRY FEE PAYABLE)

  1. Retail Design (shops, retail outlets, showrooms, department stores, food markets, shopping centres, hairdressers, doctors and dentists rooms etc)
  2. Hospitality Design (cafes, bars, restaurants, accommodation premises, hotels, day spas, swimming pools, casinos, clubs, cinemas, fitness centres etc)
  3. Corporate Design (offices, studios, warehouses, factories etc)
  4. Public Design (galleries, museums, concert halls, theatres, exhibition venues, places of worship, educational institutions, medical institutions, libraries, community centres, consulates, law courts, parliamentary buildings, airports, railway stations etc)
  5. Installation Design (gallery exhibitions, museum exhibitions, promotional displays, set design, trade exhibitions, display suites, marquees, installations, merchandising etc)
  6. Residential Design (apartments, private houses, housing developments etc)
  7. Residential Decoration (apartments, private houses, housing developments etc)

OPTIONAL CATEGORIES (NO ENTRY FEE)

  1. Colour in Commercial Interior Design (for projects submitted into Primary Categories 1 to 5)
  2. Colour in Residential Interior Design (for projects submitted into Primary Categories 6 and 7)
  3. Environmentally Sustainable Design (for projects submitted into Primary Categories 1 to 7)
  4. Emerging Interior Design Practice (where principal of practice is no more than 35 years old at time of project completion, based on projects submitted into Primary Categories 1 to 7)

AUTOMATIC CATEGORIES (NO ENTRY FEE)

  1. Best of State Awards for Commercial Interior Design (given at jury discretion and based on projects submitted into Primary Categories 1 to 5)
  2. Best of State Awards for Residential Interior Design (given at jury discretion and based on projects submitted into Primary Categories 6 and 7)
  3. Best International Interior Design Award (given at jury discretion and based on international projects submitted into Primary Categories 1 to 7)
  4. Premier Award, Interior Design Excellence and Innovation (winners of Primary Categories 1 – 7 are finalists for this overall award)
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