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SPARK:CONCEPT AWARDS ENTRY CATEGORIES

For Spark Concept, we have tried to create a very open entry system, for every possible type of design. Thus, we have listed a large number of categories. Sometimes, a design may even fit more than one category. Don’t worry about choosing the “best” one when registering. Everything is judged on its merits.

Designs are not judged within a category, but rather, in the context of our Criteria. There are no rigid divisions—categories are listed here so a designer feels that their work is appropriate and welcome. We can have any number of winners—or none in any given area. All depends on the work, and the design sensibility of jury. That’s why we work hard to find tough, fair and collegial judges.

Any design, in any media  may be submitted, including designs previously submitted to Spark competitions.

SPACE– ARCHITECTURE, INTERIORS, URBAN PLANNING

  • Buildings
  • Public Architecture
  • Interior design, living spaces
  • Offices, working spaces
  • Universal access systems
  • Temporary structures
  • Infrastructure, urban planning
  • Arches, bridges, viaducts and gateways
  • Landmarks, symbolic structures, memorials
  • Public spaces, parks, vistas, plazas
  • Pedestrian walkways, amenities
  • Community planning and design

GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Identity, logos
  • Print: publishing, media, books, art books, posters, brochures, documentation, advertising, direct mail
  • Typography
  • Corporate and financial, annual reports, internal publications
  • Wayfinding, signage, informational kiosks and terminals, environmental

PACKAGING

  • Point-of-sale (POP), sales packaging (all products & services, consumer and industrial)
  • Boxes, containers, shipping cartons
  • Promotional displays, exhibitions, 3D graphics
  • Packaging materials, innovative applications
  • Sustainable, eco-design
  • Packaging graphics, labels, branding
  • Integration, trans-design (at least two media involved)
  • Ergonomic
  • Information system integration, usage

DIGITAL

  • Multi-media
  • Games, console, stand-alone, web-based, cloud-based
  • Apps, software
  • Motion design, film, advertising
  • Video: interstitials, PSA’s, station ID, special effects
  • Digital video effects & animation
  • Websites, blogs, e-zines, online shopping, social media
  • Interactive, UX, graphical interfaces, industrial, telecom, appliance & product interfaces
  • Electronic communications systems

PRODUCT

  • Leisure, sports, health and outdoor recreation
  • Industrial and consumer tools and equipment
  • General consumer goods and appliances
  • Kitchen and bath
  • Electronics—telecom, home entertainment, computers, etc.
  • Lighting
  • Jewelry, timepieces. awards, trophies and luxury goods

FURNITURE & OUTDOOR

  • Residential
  • Street furniture and fittings
  • Office/Work

MOBILITY

  • Vehicles
  • Air, marine and space
  • Mass Transit and transportation

ADVERTISING

  • Design-driven marketing themes

GREEN

  • Carbon-lowering and environmental
  • EcoDesign

WORLD-CHANGING

  • Frugal design and design for the other 90%
  • The policies, systems and services needed to design a sustainable existence

MEDICAL

  • Medical devices and related equipment

Note: the Spark categories have been established to provide a helpful way for designers to describe and organize their entry. If the jury feels that an entry would be better served in another, it may move that entry.