I.D. magazine’s Annual Design Review is a yearly showcase of the best in international design from the iconic to the obscure. Organisers are currently calling for submissions for the 2010 issue.

Since 1954, the Annual Design Review has recognised the best in product, furniture, graphic, and environment design. Throughout the years, this annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design, and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture.

Each year, the featured work is chosen by a jury of leading practitioners, who, along with I.D.’s editorial team, focus the abundance of submissions into a clear survey of the state of design. The resulting overview is published in the July/August issue of I.D. magazine — the Annual Design Review issue.

Designs may be entered in more than one category.

The categories this year are:

– Consumer products:
Appliances, housewares, electronics, sports or recreational products, wearables/fashion, toys, mobile devices, musical instruments, computers, and transportation devices for personal use – cars, planes, boats, skateboards, bicycles, etc.

– Graphics
Books, magazines, typefaces, posters, advertisements, T-shirts, CD/DVD covers/inserts, stationery, logos/identity programs, annual reports, fliers, invitations, billboards, signage, film titles, and motion graphics.

– Packaging
Graphic and structural packaging for retail, wholesale, promotional, and industrial use, including containers, boxes, bags, bottles, tubes, labels, and book/CD/DVD packages

– Furniture
Contract and residential furnishings (individual pieces or sets); lighting and bath fixtures; and wall, floor, window, and furniture coverings (including textiles, carpets, tiles, laminates, etc.)

– Environments
Architectural projects, interiors, commercial/retail environments, temporary or permanent exhibits or galleries, wayfinding systems, landscape design, and public open spaces

– Equipment
Business, medical, industrial, military, and scientific products; instruments, apparatuses, and computers for commercial use; and mass-transit vehicles

– Interactive
Websites, widgets, viral marketing and promotions, interactive installations and kiosks, software, video games, robotics, and mapping applications.
Note: All motion graphics should be submitted to the Graphics category.

– Concepts
Any products not yet manufactured that explore the possibilities of design or technology.

– Students works
This new category was formerly the student design review. All student design work, undergraduate or graduate, in the areas of industrial design, graphic design, interactive design, architecture, interiors, and fashion, is eligible for submission. All students who enter this category will be eligible for The Rado Young Talent Design Award, a cash prize of $10,000 awarded for innovative technology and materials in student design.

Work submitted in any category must have been created between 1 January 2009 and 1 December 2009.

Student work must be the result of a classroom/academic assignment completed during the 2008/2009 academic year. Students must include a copy of an official student I.D. from that year.

Submissions are due 1 December 2009.

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