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The Young Designer’s Award is our endeavour to raise industry standards and encourage design students to explore the sub speciality of residential design.
Young Designer Award 2020
- Our Ultimate Intervention
For many of our local colleges, the taught curriculum focuses on
commercial and hospitality design. At Design Intervention,
residential design is our passion. We feel that by crafting people’s
homes, their personal spaces, we can have the most impact: we can
literally improve lives.
From left: Young Lim, Kissa Castaneda, Gordon Nguyen, Nikki Hunt, Andrea Savage, Oscar Wezenbeek
We believe that residential design can be the most rewarding and satisfying career choice for an aspiring designer and the Young Designers Award is our attempt to promote excellence in our industry and share our passion with the designers of tomorrow.
Nikki and Andrea
Benefits of entering YDA 2020
- Contributing to your portfolio.
- Participating in Design Talks/Workshops with Nikki Hunt & Andrea Savage
- Colour Theory Tutorial from Expert Colour Consultant
Exposure & Publicity:
- Digital Interview, Profile and Project feature in HOUZZ portal
- Winner Feature Story in Home & Décor Magazine
- Event publicity in Singapore Tatler Homes
Previous YDA Media Coverage: Click the Links Below
- Asiatatler - Design Intervention Fetes Emerging Talents At The Young Designer Award 2019
- Houzz - Young Designer Award 2019 x Houzz Voters' Choice
- Home and Decor - Winner of Design Intervention Young Designer Award 2018 Interview
- Houzz - Young Design Award 2017
- Houzz - What is the Young Designer Award?
THE COMPETITION BRIEF
- The students can choose their own design theme and work on the attached floor plan (Inclusive of ceiling height information CH in mm.)
- Important: Structural walls are marked in bold and they cannot be removed. Scale 1:100).
- No budget limitations.
- Thought should be given to the needs of a multi-generational family: storage for books, musical instruments, miscellaneous paraphernalia, and the physically impaired family member should be carefully considered.
The Homeowners Profile:
- Husband, aged 43 is a businessman and often requires work from home. Hobbies: Playing golf.
- Wife, aged 45 is a lawyer and has a large collection of books. Hobbies: Plays cello.
- Son, aged 14 has allergies to dust mites. Hobbies: Videogames.
- Daughter, aged 4 has a tomboy nature. Hobbies: Soccer is her favourite sport. She’s a big Liverpool fan.Son, aged 14 has allergies to dust mites. Hobbies: Videogames.
- Grandmother, aged 94 is in a wheelchair.
The Premises:
The apartment is a 3000 sq. ft apartment located in downtown Singapore. It is an older development and the apartment had not been renovated since it was first built 40 years ago. The plumbing and electrics required a complete overhaul. There were a plethora of low hanging beams and pipes throughout the unit and the existing ceilings had been dropped to conceal them resulting in a dark and unappealing unit despite the abundance of space.
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Written statement to explain the reasoning of chosen Design Theme of the entry (minimum 400 words).
- Your supporting material should easily convey colour scheme, ambience, style directions, selection of materials and finishes.
- Highlight any environmentally friendly solutions.
- Is there a particular innovative aspect or challenge of the design that you would like the judges to pay special attention to?
Your entry should include the following for each room (A3 Landscape, JPEG file).
- Floorplans
- Sketches
- Illustrations
- Drawings should include details of customized design furniture.
- Mood boards - Select materials and finishes that reflect and support the selected theme.
Completed Application Form.
Submission in A3 PDF format to joann@diid.sg | 65060920
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HOW THE WINNER IS SELECTED
Nikki and Andrea will assess the entries and determine a shortlist of 10 best entries.
A copy of these 10 submissions is then distributed to the judging panel.
The opinion of each judge is given equal weight. Each judge assesses each individual entry independently and without collaboration based on a points system. The scores for each entrant from all judges are then added together to give a total score from all judges.
The winner is the entry with the highest total score.
JUDGING CRITERIA
Entries for Young Design Award Competition will be evaluated anonymously, impartially and ethically against the following criteria:
- CLEAR EXPLANATION OF DESIGN CONCEPT
- ORIGINALITY & INNOVATION
- FUNCTIONALITY & PRACTICALITY
- QUALITY OF VISUAL PRESENTATION
- COLOUR PALETTE COMPLEXITY
THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER WILL BE AWARDED
- $1,000 cash prize
- iPHONE courtesy of AkzoNobel
- YDA Plaque of Appreciation
- Published interview in Houzz portal
- Home & Decor winner feature story
- 1 year free Singapore Tatler Homes magazine subscription
- 6 months free Home & Decor digital magazine subscription
HOUZZ PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
- Certificate
- Digital Interview Feature in HOUZZ
COLOUR AWARD
- Certificate
- iPHONE courtesy of AkzoNobel
TEN FINALISTS
- Certificate
- Profile and Project feature in Houzz voting portal.
- Project Display in the award ceremony.
- 1 year free Singapore Tatler Homes magazine subscription.
- 6 months free Home & Decor digital magazine subscription.
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
September 21, 2020
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