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WORLD Space Creators Awards 2008

Deadline: 31-01-2008

The WORLD Space Creators Awards ask design professionals and students to envision a new concept in shop style, a venue conceived to promote “customer-to-shop interaction”.

Winning designers to be commissioned to be part of a team to use their winning design in a project for real retail space development.

The WORLD Space Creators Awards are given through an open competition that aims not only to discover talented designers from around the world but also to realize their ideas by actually developing winning entries into an actual interior. Entrants can submit nearly any kind of concept that helps to define a shop interior, from overall interior design concept to various shop tools including window or interior displays, mannequins, logos and signs. With the only assumption that submissions will be physically possible to create, we hope participants will allow their imaginations to run freely in creating an idea for their submission.

Below are the winning entries from past:

2007 Award Winners

Professional Competition / Interior Design Award 1st Prize

Tomasz Grzyb
Name of work: Extreme friends

Overview / Concept:
The goal of the WSCA is to realize the immeasurable value of “selling” and “buying” products. I felt that this value lies somewhere in a delicate place that goes beyond the information needed to enjoy “buying.” In this piece, I simultaneously seek to express an invitation into the space yet also try to broadcast to people the various dangers relating to “mountains.” All of these themes speak to human emotion, with the viewer keeping a sense of slightly cynical distance as they come into contact with them, creating a sense of seriousness accompanied with a feeling of humor.
The main motif of this piece is “ice.” Its geometric form, shape, texture, and color create the feeling of space, pulling the entirety of the interior together. The multiplicity of elements of which the interior is composed resonates with the various emotions sleeping within the human soul and the myriad forms of ice (and water).

Student Competition 1st Prize

Martin G. Gavrilis
Name of work: The flying whirligigs

Overview / Concept:
I thought about the importance of the store shelf based on the fundamental principle that clothing must draw people’s attention. I used display, lighting, and decoration—the three critical elements composing the commercial space—to realize my theme in a minimalist style.

2006 Award Winners

Professional Competition - Display Design Award

Masaru Kudo
Name of work: SA-MO

Concept:
A mannequin doll that makes temperature changes visible in 3-D. By expressing heat and cold using colors, the way one would when photographing a human with a thermograph camera, the mannequin visually conveys the function of the clothes placed on it. It is also a product that expresses human emotions as temperature variations, working on the viewer with an emotional approach.

Student Competition - Honorable mention

Toshiyuki Numa
Name of work: Clothes in a picture

Concept:
I put clothes on a partition. Upon doing so, the partition displayed a variety of phenomena that it wouldn’t ordinarily show. It came to have a front and a back, with the openings marked with buttons and fasteners as the front, the reverse-side the back. A person standing at the rear stops being conscious of where the opening is. When the person standing in the front undoes the buttons and peers through to the other side, the person at the rear is for a time unaware that they are being looked at through an opening that they never new existed. At this moment, one can see a world so objective as has never been seen before. Encountering products placed as though in a landscape picture, then suddenly finding oneself in this landscape as one enters. In this space, the customer encounters products both from the perspective of an observer and from that of a performer.

for more information, please visit competition website: wsca.world.co.jp/