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Listed in order of submission deadline L•Prize Sponsor: Department of Energy (DOE) Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the L Prize is the first government-sponsored technology competition designed to spur lighting manufacturers to develop high-quality, high-efficiency solid-state lighting products to replace the common light bulb.
CLUE (Community Lighting for the Urban Environment) Competition Sponsor: PHILIPS Prizes: Winners will be selected from all eligible submitted projects. Prizes will be awarded on merit by an international jury composed of professionals in the fields of design and urban planning. Prizes will be distributed as follows on the jury’s discretion.
Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards Sponsor: Architectural SSL Magazine The Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards will reveal the best of the best. One of the barriers hindering adoption of SSL and LED products among the architectural and lighting design community is an uncertainty about the quality of products available, or in many cases, ignorance of what is available. Architectural SSL magazine along with our judging panel will review all entered products across range of common criteria. The award winners will ultimately represent a peer-recognized selection of quality products that the architectural and lighting design community can feel comfortable specifying.
GE Edison Award Sponsor: General Electric Company A panel of lighting professionals, including one representative from GE, will judge qualifying entries using a point scale based on the following criteria:
Projects scoring the highest number of points qualify to receive Awards of Excellence and Awards of Merit. The judges may also select Awards for Excellence in Environmental Design and an Award for Residential Design based on the presence of entries that encompass the exemplary and outstanding design features that support each category. GE reserves the right to not make an award in one or more categories. Submission Deadline: January 11, 2011
IESNA Medal Award Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America Requirements & Entry form: IES Illumination Awards
IES Illumination Awards Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America Requirements & Entry form: IES Illumination Awards
SOURCE Award Sponsor: Cooper Lighting
International Illumination Design Awards (IIDA) Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
IALD Lighting Design Awards Sponsor: International Association of Lighting Designers Description: The International Association of Lighting Designers launches its 20th Annual International Lighting Design Awards competition featuring a revised and refocused format. The awards program continues its mission to acknowledge superior architectural lighting design. New to the process is its category focus: entries are submitted into one of seven categories, and projects are judged and recognized within those categories with Awards of Excellence, Awards of Merit and Special Citations. The project accumulating the highest point score among all the categories earns the new IALD Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design. The seven new judging categories into which entrants submit their projects are:
Projects within a category will be considered on their own merit and not judged against other categories. Also new to this year's IALD awards call for entries is the format in which submissions are made. In a nod to technology, projects will need to be submitted digitally in high resolution, jpeg images. Specific requirements are posted on the IALD website at www.iald.org and they can be requested via phone at +1.312.527.3677 and via facsimile at 1.312.527.3680. Deadline: February 1 Contact: awards@iald.org
National Lighting Fixture Design Competition Sponsor: Multiple
Sponsors Deadline: January (date TBA)
Louis B. Marks Award Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Lumen Awards Sponsor: Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) New York Section
Core77 Design Awards Sponsor: Core77 design magazine & resource Description: Appealing to a broad audience of designers, educators, writers and consumers, this year's awards program features 17 categories including Furniture & Lighting. It also offers dedicated student fields (with affordable entry fees), entrant video testimonials, globally distributed juries (from 13 cities and 8 countries), live jury announcements (from the home cities of each jury team) and a unique trophy that honors design as a team sport that proves it is one of the most progressive, transparent and web-savvy awards program in the design industry! The official deadline for entries is April 10, 2012 but entrants who register by March 13 will receive a 20% earlybird discount!. Since 1995, Core77 has served a devoted global audience of designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, and an extensive event calendar in addition to hosting portfolios, job listings and a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 also provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture series, parties and exhibitions. Deadline: April 10,2012 Category information: Furniture & Lighting Category Application: How To Enter
Sylvan R. Shemitz Memorial Scholarship Sponsors: Lighting Quotient and the Illuminating Engineers Society Eligibility:
The submission is open to all second,
third, fourth or fifth year undergraduate
or graduate students in an accredited
design program.. Requirements and Entry form: www.ies.org/programs/grants-scholarships.cfm
Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Education Grant Administrator: Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Description: Established to encourage and recognize students who have evidenced high professional promise through the presentation of an original and ingenious solution to a supplied lighting design problem. To be eligible to enter a solution in this competition, an applicant must be enrolled as a full-time student in an approved academic degree program. Award amount: $1000. Deadline: May 1 Contact: Applicant forms are printed in the September issue of LD+A magazine and are available from the IESNA.
Lighting for Tomorrow Sponsor: Cooper Lighting
Richard Kelly Grant Administrator: Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Description: Established by the New York Section of the IESNA in memory of Richard Kelly, who was a pioneer in the lighting design profession. Applicants must be 35 years of age or younger, working or studying in the United States, Canada or Mexico. New and innovative work in the conceptual or applied use of light should be submitted. Award amount: $500 to $1500. Deadline: June 3 Contact: Applicant forms are
available from the IESNA.
Administrator: IESNA Golden State Section Description: Applications for the Thunen Memorial Scholarship may be submitted by full-time students who desire to study illumination as a career. Applications may be made by those who will be a junior, senior or graduate student in an accredited four year college or university located in Northern California, Nevada, Oregon or Washington. Scholarship amount: two grants of $2500 each. Deadline: March 25 Contact: Heide Kawahata, riverfield@juno.com; or the IESNA.
IESNA / LEDALITE Award Administrator: Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Description: Award encourages and recognizes strong lighting research projects and papers by students in undergraduate illumination programs. Qualified candidates must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student in an approved academic degree program. Award amount: $1000. Deadline: March 31 Contact: Applicant forms are available from the IESNA.
Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid State Lighting Design Competition Administrator: Department of Energy (DOE) Description: The Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) Solid State Lighting (SSL) Design Competition was created to recognize and promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED commercial lighting luminaires. Deadlines: An Intent to Submit form is due by August 18, 2010. The deadline for final forms and documentation is September 15, 2010 with actual product submission on October 1, 2010. Judging will take place October 28 - 29, 2010, with results announced in February 2011
High Benefit Lighting Award Sponsor: National
Lighting Bureau (NLB) Contact: ngl09@pnl.gov or visit www.ngldc.org
Zumtobel Group Award Sponsor: Zumtobel, Tridonic, Thorn For the 2014 award it is the fourth time the lighting group has invited submissions. For this edition of the award another category "Applied Innovations" has been added to sharpen the focus on urban developments and applied innovations in the built environment. Entries for the award will be invited in three categories: Buildings, Urban Developments & Initiatives and Applied Innovations. Each category will be sponsored by a Zumtobel Group Brand. In the past, the Award was presented in two categories. Contact: www.zumtobel-group-award.com/en/ |
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