SEGD Announces 2005 Design Award Winners

SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design), an international non-profit organization, announces 44 outstanding designs to receive recognition in the highly competitive SEGD Design Awards Program, which recognizes excellence in environmental graphic design. The winning designs were selected from 330 entries received from around the world, including firms from Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Israel, Korea, and the US.

The awards will be presented on June 2 during the SEGD 2005 Annual Conference and Expo taking place in New Orleans.

Honor Awards

Picture This: Windows on the American Home, National Building Museum, Washington, DC; Matter Practice/MGMT. design, Brooklyn, NY

Mini Store, multiple locations, US; Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA

Voices, Barcelona, Spain; Ralph Appelbaum Associates, New York, NY

National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA; Ralph Appelbaum Associates, New York, NY

NYCHHC Interior Signage Standards, New York, NY; Hillier Environmental Graphic Design, Philadelphia, PA

Social Studies/ASU, Lattie F. Coor Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Krivanek+Breaux/Art+Design, Chicago, IL

Capital Metro Experience Design, Austin, TX; fd2s, inc., Austin, TX

M.D. Anderson Access System, Houston, TX; fd2s, inc., Austin, TX

Wave Hill, The Bronx, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Shake Shack, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Temporary WTC Path Station, World Trade Center Site, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Merit Awards

Kansas City Downtown Library Book Bindings, Kansas City, MO; Dimensional Innovations, Overland Park, KS

Boeing Company: Move to the Lake, Renton, WA; NBBJ Branding + Design, Seattle, WA

DropShop, Greenwich, CT; Gensler Architecture, Design & Planning Worldwide, New York, NY

Schuylkill River Land and Water Emergency Response Location System, Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area; Cloud Gehshan Associates, Philadelphia, PA

Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway Communications Plan, Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway; Cloud Gehshan Associates, Philadelphia, PA

Dynamap: Manhattan, New York, NY; Urban Mapping LLC, New York, NY

Reynolds Interbike Exhibit, InterBike Trade Show, Las Vegas; Mauk Design, San Francisco, CA

Five Dock Library, Canada Bay, Australia; Minale Bryce Design Strategy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

LivingWell Health Clubs, multiple locations, Australia; Minale Bryce Design Strategy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, Layton, Utah; Sea Reach Ltd., Rose Lodge, OR

Five Friends from Japan, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA; Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA

North Market Building Sign Program, Los Angeles, CA; Newsom Design, Los Angeles, CA

Zubiarte, Bilbao, Spain; ID8 Studio/RTKL, Baltimore, MD

Work-Shift/Chicago, Chicago, IL; Krivanek+Breaux/Art+Design, Chicago, IL

Petra: Lost City of Stone, traveling exhibit; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

Big & Green: Towards Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century, National Building Museum, Washington, DC; Pure + Applied & James Hicks, New York, NY

Melbourne Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; emeryfrost, Southbank, Victoria, Australia

Milan Installation, Milan, Italy; Nir Adar/KSK Studios, New York, NY

NYU Wagner School, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

New York’s Moynihan, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

The L!brary Initiative, multiple locations, New York, NY; Pentagram Design, New York, NY

Special Mention Award

Off the Wall, New York, NY; Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, New York, NY

Jury Awards

Team America, movie set; Rockwell Group, New York, NY

Isurava Memorial, Isurava, Papua New Guinea; Ian Paul Hewitt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

SEGD is an international non-profit educational organization providing resources for design specialists in the field of environmental graphic design, architecture, and landscape, interior, and industrial design. SEGD members are leading designers of directional and attraction sign systems, destination graphics, identity programs, exhibits, and themed environments.

Environmental Graphic Design embraces many design disciplines including graphic, architectural, interior, landscape, and industrial design, all concerned with the visual aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and information, and shaping the idea of place.