Source One Design Contest Winners Announced

Entrants were challenged to create innovative wallcoverings concepts for hospitality applications.

by Meaghan O'Neill -- Interior Design, 5/5/2006

Major commercial wallcoverings manufacturer Source One recently named the hospitality winners of the Source One Design Competition, which challenged both professional designers and students to create innovative wallcovering design concepts for hospitality applications. Winners were announced at HD Expo 2006 in Las Vegas in April. (Corporate design winners will be announced at NeoCon 2006 in Chicago in June.)

The Source One Design Competition was co-sponsored by Interior Design and Wallcovering Source, which distributes Source One’s five product lines via the subsidiaries D.L. Couch, Eykon, and TRI-KES.

Sandro Alberti of Fen-om of Santa Monica, California took the Hospitality Professional Grand Prize. Hospitality Professional Merit Winners include Kelly Kreuzinger of Jain Malkin in San Diego and Sergio Gonzalez and Nancy Astuto of Wiedersum Associates in Hauppauge, New York.

The Hospitality Student Grand Prize Winner is Sahoko Murase from the University of Nevada in Reno. The Hospitality Student Merit Winners are Amedie Robinson from the Art Institute of Houston, Diane Leon of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Tara Trakan of Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona.

A panel of design professionals from across the U.S. selected winning entries based on design innovation, aesthetics, originality, and suitability for intended use. The judging panel included Karen Singh, market editor for Interior Design; Bob Lehrmitt and Sharon Drinkwine of Lehrmitt Associates of Austin, Texas; Neville Lewis from the School of Visual Arts in New York; George Scammell of Forrest Perkins in Washington, D.C.; Julius van Heek of the Gettys Group in Chicago; and Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates in Dallas.