€4000 Cash Prize
In addition to the accolades, winners will receive a €4000 cash prize, further motivating and acknowledging their commitment to creating a quieter world through design.
Visual pollution has become universal today, leading to heightened anxiety in human beings. Across various disciplines of design, this noise has only grown. Both humanity and our environment yearn for a sense of calmness to truly grasp the essence of our world.
This is precisely why the Vand Design Award respects quiet designs. In contrast to ostentatious and flashy designs, we aim to curate and showcase designs that exude a sense of calmness. We want to ensure these designs receive the recognition and respect they deserve within the community and the wider world.
Once the designs have been meticulously assessed and deemed to possess the desired subtlety, they will be featured in a book. This book will be available in digital and print formats, similar to last year's edition, accessible through the Amazon website.
As it is evident, we appreciate designs that convey a sense of calm to the audience and will get points. We are looking for designs that do not convey a sense of boldness and are attractive to the audience. To rate the designs, we consider five three criteria:
Forms should be humble, not showing a computer designed them. A perfect circle, smooth polished vertical lines, and sharp and right angles are not humble, and they have the coldness and harshness of a machine. In this century, we need more gentle designs. Similar to the uneven surface of fruits, trees, sand, and stones. But today's proud object shave precise, smooth, sharp, and perfect forms. Flawless forms create a sense of artificiality and roughness. We value designs that give people a sense of comfort, warmth, and intimacy, something we need.
One of the tricks of businesses to attract attention is to create anxiety. They deceive people with significant and repeating shapes, shapes, and effects, make hast decisions, and buy what they don't need. Designs with white, calm, and empty spaces do not give a sense of anxiety. According to this award, white and blank spaces create a sense of peace and security in the eyes of the audience. We appreciate the designs that respect such value in their design.
As in the previous year of the Vand Award, also in this year, only designs that are designed with one color will be accepted. If 95% of a design has one color, it is one color, and it will be accepted in the award. There are more explanations about this in the submission section. Many businesses use colors to steal people's attention due to quick economic gain quickly. Of course, these colors successfully distract people, but they have made the world restless and anxious. We value calm, gentle, non-main, non-industrial, non-Bauhaus, and nonattractive colors.
All designers worldwide can participate in this award with all their designs. It doesn't matter whether those works were produced or published or not.
We appreciate the designs and designers indifferent to the Conventional values and currents of fashion. Whether a company with that design agreed to produce and publish it does not matter. We are deeply grateful for quiet designs.
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While self-evaluation can be a source of anxiety, it's a necessary step to ensure the selection of gentle and calm designs. This year, a panel of judges, whose introduction will follow, will be responsible for this task. In the previous year, we entrusted this responsibility to nine renowned designers spanning different generations.
Participating in the Vand Award offers a profound opportunity for self-commitment to the cause of creating a quieter world. You pledge to contribute to a more serene and harmonious environment by engaging in this endeavor. Beyond this invaluable personal commitment, there are additional reasons to join:
In addition to the accolades, winners will receive a €4000 cash prize, further motivating and acknowledging their commitment to creating a quieter world through design.
A tangible certificate will be provided, symbolizing your dedication to fostering calmness through design.
Winners will be honored with a physical trophy, a testament to their exceptional achievement.
Your work will be showcased and celebrated in a publication promoting tranquility in design.
You'll receive a digital certificate recognizing your contribution to the mission of quiet design.
A digital trophy acknowledges your championing peaceful aesthetics.
You are encouraged to participate in this event by submitting your designs, whether executed or not, customized or not. This includes computer files such as renderings, mockups, and photographs of designs that have been produced.
To facilitate the judging process, we invite you to submit your works in three stages, as detailed in the table. Sending your entries sooner will contribute to a more efficient judging process.