Winnipeg Design Festival 2019 | PROTO has introduced a new awards program for designers to showcase their works, website, and connect with the public.
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The WDF 2019 Awards recognizes excellence from all design disciplines. Through this recognition, the program will connect the public with the design community and platform the designers and their projects.
The awards will be delivered in the following areas of design works and designers:

Young and Emerging: works by under 30 in age or fewer than five years in practice
Experimental and Madcap: experimental and or non-conventional works
Ex-Winnipeg: work by a trained/educated Winnipeg designer now working elsewhere
People?s Choice: works/practice appreciated by people?s votes
A trophy, designed by Mathew Nuqinqaq, an Iqaluit-based artist who works primarily in jewellery design, will be presented to each of the winners at the awards ceremony.
Winnipeg/Manitoba based designers, individuals, groups, design professionals, and designers with two or more projects commissioned by clients are eligible for submissions.
In September, the 2019 Winnipeg Design Festival will focus on encouraging and celebrating the idea of the ?first-in-time? or ?first-of? within Winnipeg?s design culture.
The 9th annual festival program will include a range of disciplines and industries, within Fashion, Food, Industrial Design, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Graphic Design ...