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IESNA To Announce Student Contest Winners

Winners will be announced March 8.

Staff -- Interior Design, 3/8/2006 12:00:00 AM

The New York Chapter of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, a non-profit membership organization, will announce the student winners of its citywide 2006 Student Design Competition on March 8.

New York-area college students of lighting, architecture, interior design, art, product design, photography, and electrical engineering were eligible to compete in the contest. Entrants constructed a three-dimensional study on how light can “reveal, create, and transform the unseen.”

The grand prize winner will receive $3,000, plus a trip to the Fall 2006 European Lighting Designers' Association (ELDA) workshop, including airfare and accommodations. A second place award winner will receive $1,000 and $500 will be awarded for third place. The competition is intended to encourage design students to explore light as an art form, says Randy Sabedra, president of the IESNY.

Winners will be announced during an event featuring keynote speaker Dr. Ing. Heinrich Kramer--general manager of Lichtdesign of Germany, a founding member and former president of ELDA, and a professor of lighting. Additional activities include a special ELDA Workshop Update, presented by Professional Lighting Design magazine publisher and editor-in-chief, Joachim Ritter, and Alison Ritter, ELDA’s director general.

IESNY, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, will run a year-long centennial celebration of programs and special events, starting June 8.