New York House invites you to participate in our third annual Innovative Green Design Awards, celebrating the best green and sustainable designs in furniture, lighting, flooring and floor coverings, bedding, kitchen appliances, window treatments, building materials, and interior finishes. Our competition aims to identify and showcase the innovative work of product designers and manufacturers, as well as the distributors who support them and bring these innovations to the public.

To be eligible, the product must:

• Have a defining green or sustainable attribute (in design, material, increased energy efficiency, reduced embodied energy, etc…) and/or be made in a sustainable way incorporating the cradle-to-cradle concept
• Be new, but available to consumers (on the market less than 2 years)

The competition is open to all product designers and product developers, manufacturers and importers in these categories:

• Furniture: Case Goods, Upholstery and Indoor/Outdoor (Casual) Furniture
• Lighting: Fixtures and Portable Lamps
• Flooring
• Floor Coverings
• Bedding (Mattresses)
• Kitchen Appliances: Dishwashers, Ranges/Ovens and Refrigerators
• Window Treatments (Hard and Soft)
• Building Materials (Roofing, Insulation, etc.)
• Interior Finishes (Sealants, Wallpaper, Paint, etc.)
• Plumbing Fixtures

Judging:

Our panel of independent judges will rate each entry on how well it meets the criteria for green and sustainable design and manufacturing, and judge it on its innovation and overall aesthetics. One winner will be chosen in each category. Winners will be notified by August 5th, 2011 and spotlighted on our newyorkhousemagazine.com website, and in our daily and weekly e-blasts.

Download PDF entry form here.

To pay your entry fee online, go here.
Note: If you do not already have an account on our website, you will be asked to create a FREE account.

Submission Guidelines:

1. Product Details

Please provide a 250-word narrative describing your product. This should include a description of the product’s craftsmanship and/or technology, its key sustainable design features, and any other information that will help our judges assess its innovation, efficiency, and sustainability. Also submit a product spec sheet and design sketches, including retail price.

2. Product Images

Provide up to five digital images of your product in JPG or TIFF format. Please submit each photo in two forms: high-resolution (300 dpi) and web-resolution (72 dpi). The photographs will be used to judge the product’s aesthetics and to help evaluate its design. If your product is chosen to receive an award, all of your submitted images may be used for promotional purposes, both on the newyorkhousemagazine.com website, greenrealestatedaily.com website, and in printed publications including but not limited to New York House. We also welcome videos to explain, demonstrate your product. They can be any format (.wmv, .mp3, .mp4, etc…).

3. $50 entry processing fee per entry

You may submit your completed entry materials along with check, made payable to ScheinMedia, to:

IGDA Entries
c/o ScheinMedia
233 Fair Street, Kingston, NY 12401

or, you may fill out an entry form, pay by credit card, at newyorkhousemagazine.com/pages/igda

A Note about Electronic Files
Acceptable formats for electronic documents include Adobe Acrobat (pdf), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Rich Text Files (RTF). Images may be supplied in JPG.

Product Sample/In-Person Judging
One product sample and/or showroom visit by one or more of our judges may be requested. If this is deemed necessary, you will be contacted to arrange for sufficient delivery time of the sample and/or convenient time for this visit.

Submission Deadline
All application materials must be received by July 15, 2011.

Questions or Comments? Contact:
Nancy Meyer
Editor, New York House magazine
(845) 340-9600 x114;
nmeyer@scheinmedia.com or

Tracey Glover
conference coordinator, ScheinMedia
(845) 340-9600 x110;
tglover@scheinmedia.com