SIT Furniture Design Award™ exists to recognize, celebrate, and promote brilliant international Furniture Designers, Brands, Manufacturers, Emerging talents as well as
Visionaries enhancing our daily life with innovation.
SIT Furniture Design Awards gives 5 winning titles per year:
The interplay of natural lights in an interior space creates mood, enhances materials, and energizes a place. It is indeed a design element like no other.
Indoor places with beautiful plays of light create an alluring ambiance and ensues a lively feeling to its occupants. This correlation of positivity and natural light has been a fascination for both the architecture and the scientific field. Evidence of this undeniable connection is seen in case studies of places on hospice, work, education, and even our humble abode love the natural lighting.
How natural lighting keeps us healthy?
We’ve provided a list of major reasons how daylight can affect our health:
But why does natural light keep us healthy? Aside from helping us to get healthy doses of Vitamin D, natural light syncs on our Circadian rhythm, our built-in body clock. Designing workplaces, for instance, require natural light and ventilation to seep through the workspaces. Without the glare and unwanted heat, a properly designed work area with the consideration of natural lighting creates a lively and inspiring space for employees.
Natural light is one design consideration when preventing the negative effects of Sick Building Syndrome. SBS is where workers experience headaches and respiratory problems, which are contributed by poor ventilation and working conditions. Though SBS mainly focuses on natural ventilation, studies show that natural lighting can help in preventing Sick Building Syndrome in buildings.
There is a reason why kitchens are best oriented on the east and west directions. For most places, the east area is the perfect spot for your breakfast nook as well as the kitchen area because you get the healthy sunlight while keeping it cool during the afternoon sun. Kitchens can also be placed along the west side, where it is the hottest spot during the afternoon, provided that you have a longer roof overhang to prevent glare and heat build-up.
When kitchens are oriented on the hottest areas, it prevents mold and mildew build-up. Bathrooms and other damp spaces should also have ample daylighting as it serves as it kills bacteria and fungi naturally.
Like other benefits of sunlight, science backs up how the natural light improves our mood and kicks off the so-called winter blues. According to an Australian study, serotonin (known as happy chemicals) levels are higher during sunny days compared to cloudy ones. Serotonin not only stabilizes your mood, but it also helps to heal wounds, stimulate nausea, and maintain bone health.
The brain dedicates more space to our visual senses compared to all other senses combined. As our visual perception signals our memory and decisions, it also affects our emotions that can affect our state of wellbeing.
Light can bring out the rich color and texture of materials better than artificial lights. With visually stimulating views, we feel relaxed and optimistic, which can greatly improve our overall wellbeing.
Probably the most obvious benefit of sunlight is that it provides energy and warmth to our bodies. Not only on its physical form, but natural light can also bring a sense of warmness or coziness in an interior. Understandably a room with light seeping through windows is more inviting and creates a sense of liveliness than a dark room.
For many years we simulate natural light in our architectural elements such as white painted walls and ceilings or luminaires with different color tones. We also allow natural light through our windows, skylights, light tubes, and clerestories to reach the nooks and corners of our interior spaces. Indeed, natural light has a great impact on our daily lives, and we continue to plan, assemble, and create spaces that can capture the benefits of the free but depleting energy source.
Influenced by social evolution and technological advances, the work scape today is ever-changing. With these dynamic shifts, it is now a more exciting time for space planners and designers to come up with innovative solutions in today’s workplaces of the future.
Applications of sensory design elements, smartphone-controlled systems, and advanced architectural materials are popular innovations that the typical office environment will soon enjoy.
We are looking ahead for smart, vibrant, green, and flexible offices in the future. We are starting to get a glimpse of how all of these features will come together seamlessly in the future.
We’ve come up with 5 Trends in Office Interior Design.
Sleep pods are one of the best examples of resimercial concepts and added with household amenities and potted plants you’ll indeed feel more relaxed just ready to tap up that creative mind.
For materials, organic textures such as bricks and wood are integrated with concrete and glass, creating a more welcoming office atmosphere. Corduroy and velvet are also making a comeback, as seen in its reintroduction in furniture in recent years.
Employees can kick off that dozy hours with fun and engaging media walls. These tactile features can be installed along the office hallways, lounge area, and pantry rooms.
Multi-touch interactive screens can replace our traditional projectors, making board meetings livelier and are said to bring better retention among participants.
To break up the rigidity of office spaces, we’ll see the continued use of organic curves, as the 80’s curves have started to reemerge in domestic interiors.
Both movements will become a staple in many office interiors. Biophilic design is where reconnecting occupants with nature is the major theme. We’ll see live trees and plants fully integrated into the built spaces.
Vertical gardens and green feature-walls can light up offices with limited natural lighting and ventilation. These green walls can also reduce noise and offers benefits to the general well-being of workers.
For sustainability, companies will continue to explore energy-saving mechanisms. LED lights, recycled building materials, and organic furniture are other architectural elements that will continue through future offices.
We’ll see more beautifully crafted décor and architectural elements with technological integration in our future offices. Our office design elements need not to be all cold and mechanical-looking. Wood, faux fur, and a touch of craftsmanship can further add warmth to our office interiors.
The HYDE Wall and Ceiling System by KOVR is an example of the successful integration of craftsmanship and technology. The HYDE wall combines the 12mm thick tiles with LED lights integrated seamlessly without exposed wiring.
Another beautifully crafted hi-tech piece is the Swarovski Infinite Aura Lighting with its enchanting design and adjustable lighting and temperature features. The exquisite luminaire even comes with its own mobile application.
Creating varied spaces but can adapt to changes, is a foreseen standard in future offices.
To define and enhance these spaces color and light have a large part for the functioning of future offices. We see the timeless cobalt blue and black hues to stay in sophisticated spaces and the all-white with glass and chrome surfaces to be common in collaborative areas.
In addition, the office nooks such as spaces under stairs and other unused spaces will also be utilized as space planners will need to integrate a variety of functional spaces.
Efficiency and productivity have always been the main concerns of companies but as the knowledge of productivity-environment correlation has spanned, we are now optimistic to see dynamism and vibrancy into the future of occupied spaces. With innovative design ideas emerging, we’re optimistic that the office space of the future seems brighter than ever.
When it comes to food and drinking establishments, proper lighting is paramount. Lights from both natural and artificial lighting, when properly planned can create an inviting atmosphere. Strategic illumination can set the mood of interior space. This further boosts the occupants’ sensory experiences and provides the desired ambiance.
Aside from creating an atmosphere, lighting is critical when to efficiency, productivity, and safety of the staff and employees.
Your lighting can never be an afterthought. Without proper lighting, it can break the overall look of your restaurant or bar, however beautiful or stunning your other design elements may be.
We’ve listed here the 4 Important Lighting Types for your Bar or Restaurant.
Importance: Safe circulation of space, foundational layer of lighting
Ambient lights are placed to provide general lighting to your establishment, helping your customers and employees to maneuver easily and safely through space. These lights serve as the base lighting when it comes to layering of your lighting. For ambient illumination, these are usually overhead luminaires, recessed lights, chandeliers, track lighting, or pendant lights.
Importance: Highlight important areas or features, creates overall contrast
Creating visual interest and makes a lively and dynamic atmosphere. You can highlight décor elements such as paintings, feature walls, or any other artwork. This lighting level is also perfect in accenting points in your operation, such as menu boards, advertisements, or open kitchen areas. Emergency lights should also be highlighted using focal luminaires like troffers or recessed lights.
For a dramatic effect, your focal lighting should be 3x brighter than your ambient lights. Sconces or pendant lights, adjustable track lights, torchiere lights, and cove lights are a few focal lights that can be incorporated.
Importance: Safety of kitchen staff, ensures the efficiency of employees
If you have excellent task lighting, you’ll expect employees to complete the task accurately. Task lights are generally placed in the kitchen, reception, or counters. Kitchen areas should be well lit, as safety is a priority. With proper lighting, kitchen staff should able to see clearly all the kitchen utensils and ingredients being used.
Task lights include both fixed and adjustable luminaires. Adjustable task lights include gooseneck, balanced-arm lamp, and track lights. Fixed task lights on-the-other-hand include pendant lights and downlights.
Importance: Natural anti-bacterial properties, creates a lively mood, saves on energy costs.
Regardless of what restaurant or bar business you have, natural light from the sun is beneficial, and it should go hand-in-hand with your artificial lighting. Natural illumination should be maximized, but glare and heat retention should be avoided. Surface materials can also affect your overall lighting, so be sure to include all design considerations when planning.
To control natural lighting, blinds and draperies can be installed as well as smart windows that can self-tint during the day when the sun is at its highest.
Just like in a theater stage, layers of light create, enhances, and highlight key elements. Regardless of what type of restaurant, lighting is critical. It’s not enough in having beautiful luminaires, all your lights should work harmoniously, and it helps to have controllable features on your lighting system. This makes it easier to adjust the degree of brightness and color.
Around 50% of the energy consumption of bars and restaurants comes from lighting alone. You can choose LED or sensory lights to cut off costs. Along with a properly planned lighting system, you can ensure that your costumers and staff are getting the optimum benefits of natural and artificial illumination.
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Inaugural SIT Furniture Design Awards 2020 submissions are now open. While making the announcement, the awards spokesperson said that registrations for the first edition of the awards for best in furniture design is now open.
Created to recognize the efforts of talented international furniture product designers, manufacturers, and brand implementers; SIT aims at celebrating creativity and sharing furniture designers’ innovative SEATING visions to the world.
“SIT focuses on rewarding strategic thinking and imagination that goes into making great equipment,” said the spokesperson, adding that industrial designers help in improving our daily life; therefore, their efforts need be recognized.
While acknowledging that furniture will be a strategic tool in managing the current global health crisis, the founder of SIT Furniture Design Awards and CEO of its parent company, Farmani Group; Mr. Hossein Farmani explained how important it is to acknowledge the efforts and contributions of furniture designers and implementers. Hossein Farmani also observed that with the pandemic, there has been a major shift in how we use furniture, defining private versus working areas, and how we had to reorganize our lives from home while changing our habits to keep the infections at bay, “…all these will have an impact on furniture and interior design, ”said Mr. Farmani.
With the awards, Mr. Farmani added that they recognize the contribution of furniture designers, rewarding them for their talent and creativity, which also awards present exciting opportunities for both new talent and established creatives and architects.
Digital Innovation Center
SIT Furniture Design Awards have created the Digital Innovation Center, a concept with a unique blend of design, creative thinking, computational thinking, culture integration, and sustainability innovation.
The center is focusing on 3 topics to highlight new inventions every year, looking at today’s challenges and how to overcome them. The annual winner of the Digital Innovation Center in professional categories will receive a cash prize of US$4000 to realize a prototype or start production.
For its inaugural launch, the Digital Innovation Center will focus on these topics:
Panel of Judges
Entries to the competition will be anonymously judged by an influential jury panel of experienced academics and established design industry professionals whose mandate is to recognize and award the absolute best designers. Each jury member will bring a wealth of knowledge and understanding to the table and with their combined insight and votes, the final winners in each category will be selected.
Winners will receive the SIT trophy, a digital brochure featuring their winning entry, an invitation to the bi-annual winner reception as well as extensive publicity, promoting their designs to a worldwide audience.
Eligibility
Entries can be submitted as conceptual designs, in progress, or as completed projects as long as they are no more than five years old. The submissions can be made as a professional or as a student, and the competition is open to anyone aged 18+, residing in any part of the world.
Professional entries will be judged against other professionals with student entries against other students. There is an early bird discount of 20% for applications made before the 14th of September 2020. The deadline for participation is set for December 5th, 2020, and another 10-day extension will be given for late submissions. Winners will be announced in February 2021.
About Farmani Group
Farmani Group is a company leading in curation and promotion of photography, design, and architecture across the globe. Established in 1985, the company aims at discovering and promoting talents in its areas of operation through competitions, awards, exhibitions, developing artist communities, providing networking opportunities, and education.
The Farmani Group, has organized several successful award events around the globe, including the International Design Awards (IDA), Architecture Masterprize, DNA, Paris Design Awards, London International Creative Awards, Prix de la Photographie in Paris, and the Annual Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious awards. And now the SIT Furniture Design Awards.
Farmani Group assembled SIT Furniture Design Award to bring more attention to the international furniture industry’s great contribution to our daily life.
SIT Furniture Design Award is the sibling Award of LIT Lighting Design Award (LIT), International Design Awards (IDA), and European Product Design Awards ( ePDA) all focusing on Product Aesthetic, Concepts & Enhancement.
The Farmani Group, established in 1985, is responsible for many successful awards around the globe. Farmani Group organizes the International Design Awards (IDA), Architecture Masterprize (AMP) DNA, Paris Design Awards, London International Creative Awards (LICC), Prix de la Photographie in Paris (PX3), and the Annual Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious awards. Learn more about Farmani Group here.
SIT Furniture Design Award™ exists to recognize, celebrate, and promote brilliant international Furniture Designers, Brands, Manufacturers, Emerging talents as well as Visionaries enhancing our daily life with innovation. SIT focuses on “Seat and Beyond”, rewarding strategic thinking and imagination which goes into making great equipment.
The prize is open to submissions on a global level, accepting entries from Designers and Emerging Talent from all around the world.
SIT Furniture Design Award has created a digital “Innovation Center” focusing every year on 3 topics to highlight invention, look at today’s challenges, and how to overcome them. The winner of the “Innovation Center” will receive a cash prize to realize a prototype or start the production.
Winners are selected by our esteemed jury of creative minds and leaders in the Industrial Designers world. They will receive the SIT trophy, a Digital brochure feathering their entry, be invited to the Bi-Annual winner reception as well as extensive publicity exposing their designs to a worldwide audience…
Designers, Manufacturers and Brands can submit an unlimited number of furniture concepts pertaining to various categories, from seat to tables, from lighting to office desks. While the “Design with furniture” section included living room design to bedroom design, from commercial design to landscape design.
The deadline for participation is set for December 5th, 2020, and another 10 days extension will be given for late submission.
Winners will be announced in February 2021!
SIT digital ” Innovation Center” – Start making a difference now!
SIT Furniture Design Award has created a “Digital Innovation Center”, to be a unique blend of design and creativity thinking, Computational thinking, culture integrator, and sustainability’s maker.
The center is focusing every year on 3 topics to highlight inventions, look at today’s challenges, and how to overcome them. The yearly winner of the “Digital Innovation Center” professional or student will receive a grant of US$4000 to realize a prototype or start the production.
For its inaugural launch, the digital innovation center will focus on:
SIT Furniture Design Award Jury panel will look deeply at the process to create the successful product/furniture that resonates with today’s users. It must be technologically feasible and successfully applicable to solve all kinds of innovation challenges and problems.