JCD Design Award 2005
Invitation to the Award for Overseas Interior Designers

Japanese Society of Commercial Space Designers (JCD)

The JCD Design Award is a prize specializing the only space design in Japan that the Japanese Society of Commercial Space Designers has given for 36 years every year. We have been opening the door to the overseas interior designers/architects since 2003 though JCD had targeted the design projects in Japan up to then. The JCD would like to invite spirited designers¡¯ projects from overseas as the third trial this year. It is our sincere hope that many foreign designers will join us.

The background of the JCD Design Award, the object of the Award, and other outlines are as follows:

Background
The JCD Design Award was founded in 1974, in order to contribute to the improvement in qualitative and development of a commercial space design of Japan. JCD have awarded the prize to the design projects in Japan at the beginning. Because an excellent design is beyond the border and is supported by people all over the world, many of members of JCD are playing an active part not only in Japan but also in overseas recently.

We think it significant for the future of the design industry that the designer of Japan and Asia recognizes the outstanding work from a common viewpoint while the designers of Asia who play an active part in the world are increasing in number. Furthermore, the exchange of the designers of Asia and Japan is wished to become much more active by such trial.

Object of the Award
We consider a commercial space widely not only in a store or a restaurant. That is, it includes a shopping center, a movie theater, a hotel, a gymnasium, a theater, an art museum, etc. Namely, JCD defines a commercial space as place that we shop, eat, drink, play and enjoy. From such a free viewpoint, we discover the outstanding design and grant the Award. www.dolcn.com

Recognition
The award-winning projects will receive considerable recognition. They are carried by the design yearbook and introduced to various media.

Judging
Members of the jury consist of the interior designers, the architects, the critics and so on. And JCD invites the guest jury each time, in order to choose the design projects from a still broader viewpoint. For example, the past guests are the prominent architects of overseas, such as Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Gaetano Pesce, Jean Nouvel, Ken Yeang and are Japanese artists such as Yoji Yamamoto, Amon Miyamoto and so on.

By such variegated juries, we can only rediscover not only beauty in the design but also the aspect of a present society, and elect the design that foresee tomorrow.

The Conditions and Rules

Award Categories and Eligibility:
-Projects completed anywhere from May 1, 2004 through April 30, 2005.
-The space design projects belonging to the following categories:
1. Shop (including a showroom)
2. Restaurant (including a bar, a coffee shop)
3. Shopping Center (including a department store)
4. Service and Amusement (a hotel, sports and leisure-related, and so on)
5. Culture and Public Sector (a office, a theater, a museum, a hospital, a school and so on)
6. Other Space Design

Awards:
The following awards are granted and the certificate of merit and the trophy are presented to each winner. Your application fee is free of charge this time because the application from Asian countries is invitation.
Grand Award       (1 project)
Special Jury Award       (1 project)
Excellent Award (equivalent to Gold Award)     (10 projects)
Encouragement Award (equivalent to Silver Award)      (30 projects)
Selected Designer Award (equivalent to Bronze Award)       (50-60 projects)

Judging Criteria:
The following six juries elect the invitation projects of Asia on the same conditions as Japanese applicants by open examination. Under the audience's gaze, they examine the submitting projects all day long.

Members of the Jury (Alphabetical order):
Jun Aoki: Architect
-After working at Arata Isozaki's atelier, he attracts attention by the architectural store design of Louis Vuitton in Japan.
Naoki Iijima: Interior Designer
-Mr. Iijima is one of famous designers under activity not only in Japan but also in overseas. His foreign projects are the cosmetics store 5S in New York, BLUPOND RESTAURANT in Seoul and so on.
Yasuo Kondo: Interior Designer
-He is the prominent designer who dealt with the YOJI YAMAMOTO boutiques, the Securities Exchange TOSHO ARROWS, etc.
Takashi Sugimoto: Interior Designer, Professor of University of Musashino Arts
-Prof. Sugimoto is an eminent designer who represents the Japanese interior designer industry. His main projects are MUJI SHOP, SHUNJU, PU-J¡¯s in Grand Hyatt Shanghai and the Food Court in Grand Hyatt Singapore.
Shinya Hashizume: Architectural historian, Assistant Professor of Osaka City University
-He is researching an industrial technological history concerning construction and the display. Recently, he published the book about the city reproduction by sightseeing.

The Special Guest Jury
Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham: Architect
- After both studied architecture at The Royal College of Art in London, they stay in Japan, and are engaged in architecture and interior design. Their main projects are MUSIUM CAF¨¦, BLOOMBERG ICE, VIRGIN ATLANTIC OFFICE and so on.

Submission Materials:
-Project Description: To provide a one-page description in English of the original design objectives, the distinguishing characteristics of the work and its design elements for each project. Entrants must submit a digital copy by email or on disk in PDF or MS WORD format (see the ¡°Special note¡± in detail.).
-Photographs: To submit the color panels of the horizontal layout of A2 within six pieces. Because project authorship must remain concealed throughout the judging of the jury, the entries must affix the Entry Card to the reverse side of each panel.

Submission Deadline and Our Address:
-Submission Deadline: Completed submission materials must be submitted with each entry by 4:00 pm Friday, June 10, 2005.

Mail to:
JCD Design Award Committee
C/O Japanese Society of Commercial Space Designers (JCD)
Soto-Kanda Kaikan 101, 2-1-6 Soto-Kanda
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021 Japan
Phone: +81-3-5207-6707 Fax: +81-3-5207-6708

Open Examination: June 21, 2005 (in Tokyo)
Announcement of Winner: End of July 2005 www.dolcn.com
Award Ceremony: December 2005 (in Tokyo)

Publicity for the Award-winning Projects:
The winning projects will be introduced by "ANNUAL OF SAPCE DESIGN IN JAPAN" that will be published in December 2005. In addition, recipients may be carried by our publicity with various media.

Questions?
Email: jcd@jt3.so-net.ne.jp

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The Special note for the overseas entrants 2005

Each entrant must apply noting the points as follows:
- Projects completed anywhere from May 1, ¡®04 through April 30, ¡®05.
- Please refer to the applicable part of ¡°The Conditions and Rules¡± about Award Categories.
- Your application fee is free of charge this time because the application from Asian-Oceania countries is invitation.
- Completed submission materials must be submitted with each entry by4:00 pm Friday, June 10, 2005.

- Important: Entrants need to use the PDF format or Microsoft WORD format as the formal entry form and the entry card, and surely to type and submit them. Please only look at the printed matter mailed separately by reference.

- Following materials must be submitted with each entry:
1. Entry Form:
To submit a digital copy by email or on disk like FD or CD in PDF or MS WORD format.
2. Photographs (A2 color panel within 6 pieces) with Entry Card:
To submit them via mailing or international parcel delivery service.
3. Project Description: www.dolcn.com
To submit a digital copy by email or on disk like FD or CD in PDF or MS WORD format.

Attention:
When you send the above-mentioned 1 and 2 by email, please send them to:
jcd@jt3.so-net.ne.jp
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- The application is limited to one project a person.
- The application materials are not returned.
- Please note that the application works other than the provided standards are excluded from the examination.
- The publication right of the application materials are in JCD and the related publishing company (Rokuyou-sha), and each applicant has the copyright.
- Please note packing enough when you send the work because the applicant has the care and custody before it is accepted. JCD owes the care and custody after accepting the work, but we don't assume the responsibility at damage by the natural disaster and other inevitability.
- If you need additional information, please contact us at:
jcd@jt3.so-net.ne.jp