ANNOUNCING THE RE:VISION DESIGN AWARD
CALL FOR ENTRIES

Modern Painters magazine and Louise Blouin Media are inviting designers
from around the world to participate in the inaugural Re:VISION Design
Award. The first prize is ten thousand dollars (US).

Designers, we are living in a time of profound economic and environmental
upheaval. Our question to you is this: How do we make a home responsibly in
such a world? What constitutes a beautiful, inspiring, and environmentally
sustainable domestic realm?

The Re:VISION Design Award challenges emerging designers to revisit,
rethink and reimagine how we live in our homes in these environmentally and
economically challenging times. Whether in the fields of furniture,
lighting, product, interior or environmental design (or some combination of
these), we seek to recognize innovative designs that thoughtfully explore
new ways to live, work, play and interact in the domestic environment. How
can design make the way we live in our homes more enjoyable and beautiful?
How can it make it more efficient? And most important, sustainable? Show us
an object or environment that you have conceived that offers a new, more
enlightened domestic lifestyle.

An international jury of design luminaries, including the evolutionary
designer Ross Lovegrove, Renny Ramakers, design historian and co-founder of
Droog, Rob Forbes design thinker and founder of Design Within Reach, David
McFadden, chief curator of New York's Museum of Arts and Design, Rosanne
Somerson, professor of furniture design, RISD, and Cristina Grajales,
dealer in vintage modern and contemporary furniture, will evaluate entries
based on innovation, performance, sustainability and visual appeal, among
other criteria.

The first-prize winner will receive $10,000, and the two runners-up will be
awarded $2,500 each. All three will be profiled in the May 2010 issue of
Modern Painters and on ARTINFO.com. The work of 10 semifinalists will also
be featured on ARTINFO.com. The deadline is November 17, 2009.

To participate—and for details concerning the rules, judging criteria,
jury and application instructions—please visit our comprehensive awards
website.