Unlimited Awards:

There is no limit to the number of winners in each category. Every submission that meets the award criteria is eligible for recognition.

Icon Award

This award honors anyone in our industry who has dedicated more than 20 years of service.  This award is open to professionals practicing Interior Design, Reps, and/or Dealers. A candidate is not required to have worked on an ID Awards project entry. This award is also open to unlimited entries. There is no fee for this submission.  Please include the honoree’s full name, current place of work and all accreditations.

For the ICON award, instead of project name, please include any and all accreditations, firm name and years of service.

For Example, 

“Sammi Jackson ASID, RID, LEED AP BD+C / Interface / 31 years”

Breakthrough Artists

This award honors the designers who passed their NCIDQ exams in 2026.  A candidate is not required to have worked on an ID Awards project entry. This award is also open to unlimited entries.  There is no fee for this submission.

For the Breakthrough Artists, instead of project name, please put firm.

For Example,

Sammi Jackson, Interface

ENTRY FEES

SCHEDULE

DELIVERABLES WITH PROJECT ENTRY

2. Project Information PowerPoint (for committee, information to be used awards night).
Download required PowerPoint at https://iida-northland.org/events/id-awards-27/ 
a) Photographs of Interior Design team members
b) Additional project team members
c) Project Collaborators/Contributors
d) Winning Slide

1. i. Lead Project Photograph to be used at the awards program.
2. ii. Include a project summary, 100 words. The project summary will be read at the awards program.

AWARD CATEGORIES

• Remix Award: This award is designed for best adaptive reuse, renovation or reimagined space

• Breakthrough Artists: This award is designed for anyone who passed their NCIDQ exams passed in 2026

• Campus Choice Award: This award is designed for Student Housing project

• Real World Award: This award is designed for an Affordable / Market-rate Housing project

• The Golden Era Award: This award is designed for a Senior Housing project

• Education Soundstage: K12 This award is designed for a K12 project

• Education Soundstage: Higher Education This award is designed for a Higher Education project

• Healing Soundstage Small: This award is designed for a healthcare project under 15 sft

• Healing Soundstage Medium: This award is designed for a healthcare project 15-60k sft

• Healing Soundstage Large: This award is designed for a healthcare project over 60k sft

• Indie Award: This award is designed for a workplace project under 15k sft

• The Main Stage Award: This award is designed for a workplace project between 15k sf – 40ksft

• Headliner Award: This award is designed for a workplace project over 40k sft

• Choreography Award: This award is designed for a space with seamless flow, circulation or spatial planning

• Collaboration Award: This award is designed for outstanding teamwork between architects + designers, designer + manufacturer, multi-disciplinary project teams

• Mic Drop Moment: This award is designed for a project with the most dramatic before and after

• The Best Vibe Award: This award is designed for a project in retail, leisure, hospitality, amenity spaces or restaurants

• Welcome to my Crib Award: This award is designed for in-house designers working on their own facilities or anyone who remodeled their own space.

• Production Crew: This award is designed for recognizing project managers, technical designers or vendors who make it happen

• People’s Choice Award: This award is designed for a civic, public or government project

• Unplugged Award: This award is designed for a project that is minimal, sustainable and stripped back in material palette

• Design Vanguard Award: This award is designed for a project that included forward thinking innovation in materials, sustainability or tech integration