PG BISON 1.SIXONEEIGHT COMPETITION

Calling all interior design and architecture students – deadline August 13!

PG Bison is celebrating the 16th Anniversary year of its prestigious Student Design Competition and Awards in 2010 with a fanfare, including a new name - 1.sixoneeight (also known as the Golden Ratio); a new logo and a sprinkling of new judges who are all industry leaders and design gurus drawn from the world of interior design and architecture. The new brand concept is designed to appeal to a specific target market – students of architecture and interior design – while pushing traditional competition boundaries.

The theme for this year’s PG Bison 1.sixoneeight Competition, - Eat, Sleep, Bath, Cook and Live – has been conceptualized by competition partner @home.

Submission date for entries is August 13, 2010. The brief is as follows: @home needs a design for its concept “Store of the Future”, a look and feel for the next three to five years for this upmarket retail space. Entries need to answer the following: How do you use your design to excite and engage the Customer?; How does your design take the Customer on a journey?, and How do you entice the Customer, through design, to shop when homeware is considered a luxury and not a necessity?

First prize is a trip for the winning student and their lecturer to the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair: Valued at R40,000 pp, this includes return air tickets, accommodation, entry to the show and contribution to daily expenses). The winner will also receive an @home Gift Card for homeware and furniture valued at R15,000. Merit Award is an all-expenses paid trip to the 2011 Design Indaba in Cape Town valued at R12,000 which includes return air ticket, accommodation, car hire, entry to the show and contribution to daily expenses as well as an @home Gift Card for homeware and furniture valued at R8,000. The First Prize and Merit Award Prize are not exchangeable for cash

The third prize winner receives a R7,000 in cash and an @home Gift Card for homeware and furniture valued at R6,000 while the seven non-winning finalists will receive an @home Gift Card for homeware and furniture valued at R3,000.

In addition to these prizes, should @home use any element of any competition submission in the future design of any store, or in any other aspect of the business, the student/s concerned will each receive an @home Gift Card for Homeware and Furniture valued at R2,000. T&C apply.

Entry forms can be downloaded from www.1sixoneeight.co.za More information from the competition office by e-mail info@1sixoneeight.co.za or 073 257 8178; 011 646 1675 or fax 086 601 7479.