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International projects dominate field

At its annual convention held in early June in Montreal, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) unveiled its 2011 Design Award winners, the 24th edition of its competition. Chosen from among approximately 450 entries, 28 submissions earned an Honor, Merit or Jury Award. John Lutz, principal of Playa del Rey, CA-based Selbert Perkins Design and chair of the Design Awards judges said winning submissions “used the entire environment to communicate. It wasn’t enough to be a functional object in space; we recognized projects that found innovative ways to activate the environment.”

Here’s a complete list of the winners. ST will publish a gallery of select SEGD Design Awards honorees in a subsequent print issue, as well as on www.signweb.com.

Honor Awards (Top Consensus Choices)
• Dream Cube: 2010 World Expo Shanghai Corporate Pavilion exhibition and environment design (Shanghai), by ESI Design
• Forgotten Cities Hiking Trail signage (Aleppo, Syria), by PenguinCube SAL
• Macquarie Bank Headquarters signage and graphics (Sydney, Australia), by EGG Office
• MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts signage (Rome, Italy), by ma:design SRL
• SKIN at the Pavilion of Knowledge (Lisbon, Portugal), by P‐06 Atelier and JLCG Architects
• Urban Tales Shadow Typography (conceptual/Wellington, New Zealand), by Katie Bevin
• White Road: Waiting for the Rain Installation at Dubrova Sculpture Park (Labin, Croatia), by Studio Rašić

2011 SEGD Merit Awards (Consensus Choices)
• Achievement First Endeavor Middle School environmental graphics (Brooklyn, N.Y.), by Pentagram
• ASICS Australia environmental graphics (Sydney, Australia), by THERE Design
• Branded Environment, Confidential Client (New York), by Ayers Saint Gross
• Casa do Conto/House of Tales environmental graphics (Porto, Portugal), by R2 Design
• Change Elevators, University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.), by University of Washington School of Art,
Division of Design
• Chapel of the Holy Spirit environmental graphics, Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, Conn.), by Sasaki Associates
• Design Museum Holon signage and wayfinding (Holon, Israel), by Adi Stern Design
• Dis(Solve): The Japhet Creek Project environmental graphics and interpretives (Houston, Texas), by University
of Houston School of Art Graphic Communications Program and Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
• Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York (New York), by Cooper Joseph
Studio
• First National Bank, Metro Crossing Branch environmental graphics (Council Bluffs, Iowa), by RDG Planning &
Design
• IDSA Annual Meeting environmental graphics (Portland, OR), by Ziba Design
• Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital wayfinding and graphics (Columbia, S.C.), by Stanley Beaman & Sears
• Parking Garage graphics at 13‐17 East 54th Street (NYC), by Pentagram
• Science Storms exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago (Chicago), by Evidence Design
• Site Safety Installation graphics (New Zealand), by Studio Alexander
• University of Technology, Sydney, environmental graphics (Sydney, Australia), by BrandCulture
Communications
• VeloCity bicycling master plan (Seattle, WA) by Erin Williams
• Water Formula headquarters environmental graphics (Lisbon, Portugal) by P-06 Atelier
• X Exhibition graphics and identity (Shenzhen, China), by SenseTeam

2011 SEGD Jury Awards (Recognized by one competition juror)
• Chanel Media Installation (New York), by Apologue
• JWT Headquarters environmental graphics (New York), by EGG Office