DesignArts Utah Competition

Design is the creative beginning of any human initiated arrangement of materials. We are dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the diverse fields of design in Utah. We strive to help the citizens of Utah see, experience, use and value the art of design that surrounds us.

DesignArts Utah sponsors and mounts an annual exhibition. This exhibition features work submitted by Utah designers that have been selected by a juror prominent in the design field. Past design exhibitions have featured the work of architects, landscape architects, industrial designers, furniture, fashion, commuter jets, automobiles, stage set design, mobility designs for physically challenged, books, graphic design, textiles, environmental, etc.

DesignArts Utah 2012

Utah Arts & Museums is honored to host the annual salute and celebration of the design arts in Utah by hosting DesignArts ’12, a juried exhibition highlighting the work of designers in any design field, currently living in Utah. David Revere McFadden from the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City is the 2012 juror and curator. All entries for DesignArts Utah 2012 must be submitted by April 27, 2012. The exhibition of selected designs opens Friday, June 15 and runs through Thursday, July 27, 2012 inside the Rio Grande Depot at the Rio Gallery, located at 300 South Rio Grande (455 West) in Salt Lake City, Utah.

DesignArts annual exhibitions feature selections of designs, prototypes, and produced samples by members of Utah’s various design fields. Designers may submit produced work or conceptual, pre-production documentation. All Utah designers, including those in the fields of architecture (landscape or structural and community planning and design (urban and rural); as well as those in brand/packaging, display, fashion, furniture, graphic, industrial, interior, lighting, theatre or film set, transportation, web design or other design fields are invited to participate.

Entries must be submitted to Utah Arts & Museums, Design Arts Program, 300 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, 2011. The designer selected as the Juror’s Award Winner for DesignArts ’12 will receive a $2,500 recognition and thank you for the achievement and contribution to Utah.|

Click Here for Entry Form and Instructions

For more information contact Jim Glenn via email or 801.533.3585.

DesignArts Exhibitions

View a gallery of past projects chosen for exhibition:

2011

Juror: Stuart Karten, director of Stuart Karten Design, Los Angeles, California.

8 Utah designers were selected for exhibition of their 13 designs from the 31 designs submitted.

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the full catalog (2.2MB PDF)

2010

Juror: Budd Steinhilber, director of the of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum

15 Utah designers were selected by Mr. Steinhiber for exhibition from the 60 designs submitted by 22 designers

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the full catalog (4MB PDF)

2009

Juror: Reed Kroloff, director of the of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum

9 Utah designers were selected by Mr. Kroloff for exhibition from the 42 designs submitted by 22 designers

2008

Juror: Jennifer Morla, award winning designer and creative director of Design Within Reach

20 Utah designers were selected by Ms. Morla for exhibition from the 97 designs submitted by 37 designers

2007

Juror: Tucker Viemeister, VP Creative with Studio Red at Rockwell Group

15 Utah designers were selected by Ms. Szenasy for exhibition from the 47 submitted works

2006

Juror: Susan S. Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine based in New York City

15 Utah designers were selected by Ms. Szenasy for exhibition from the 60 designs submitted by 36 designers

2005

Juror: Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

10 Utah designers were selected by Mr. Rosa for exhibition from the 42 designs submitted by 21 designers

2004

Juror: Anne Van Ingen, director of architecture, planning and design program and capital projects for the New York State Council on the Arts in New York, New York.

8 Utah designers were selected by Ms. Van Ingen for exhibition from the 27 submitted works

2003

Juror: Buff Kavelman, director of the Smithsonian National Design Awards at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York

9 Utah designers were selected by Ms. Kavelman for exhibition from the 35 submitted works

Questions?

Jim Glenn at 801.533.3585
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