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| VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 spring 2008 |
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World Market Center to award design innovation for ‘One Good Chair’ competition
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Judges seek “eco chair” entries by June 9, 2008
Las Vegas Design Center at World Market Center Las Vegas, the Sustainable Furniture Council and Western Interiors & Design magazine invite designers everywhere to enter the first-ever “One Good Chair” design competition.
The program encourages designers to contribute their vision for a new kind of “eco-chair” that focuses first and foremost on form. Judges are looking for lounge chair or casual seating chair designs that demonstrate a new attitude and new conceptual design toward an old problem and transcend basic green standards by transforming the very nature of the chair.
Competition entrants should consider:
- What kind of shapes can minimize resources while maximizing comfort and enjoyment?
- How can design integrate ecology and ergonomics?
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Winners and select entries will be featured in industry publications Treehugger, Inhabitat, Western Interiors & Design and other media, with select entries considered for inclusion in Lance Hosey's book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology and Design.
Hosey said entries will be judged on material conservation, physical comfort and emotional resonance. The competition is open to any designer, architect, student or interested person anywhere.
Margaret Casey, director of programming at World Market Center Las Vegas and a founding member of the Sustainable Furniture Council, said the One Good Chair design competition is supported through World Market Center’s Las Vegas Design Center and Las Vegas Market’s Living Green Pavilion. “Our judges for this competition are incredibly prestigious and their involvement makes One Good Chair an outstanding opportunity for all designers, both up and coming and established.”
The judges of One Good Chair represent a cross section of renowned designers, researchers and academics with specific expertise in green design.
The One Good Chair jury includes:
- Lance Hosey (jury chair and competition organizer) Director, William McDonough + Partners
- Galen Cranz, a Professor, University of California at Berkeley
- Michael Wollaeger, Editor-in-Chief of Western Interiors and Design magazine
- Bill Dowell, Director of Research, Herman Miller Inc.
- Jill Fehrenbacher, a Green Designer and Founder of Inhabitat
- Eric Pfeiffer, a Designer and Founder of Pfeiffer Lab
- Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis magazine
The “One Good Chair” registration closes May 16. Entries are due June 9. For more information or an entry form, visit www.lasvegasmarket.com, www.sustainablefurniturecouncil.com or www.onegoodchair.com.