DEADLINE: Commerce Design Detroit applications due today!
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Last Day to Apply! Deadline: Friday, July 6, 2018 – Today! Calling all designers and small businesses to apply! A Detroit City of Design project,Commerce Design: Detroit is a new competition raising awareness of, and access to, professional design services for neighborhood small businesses.
The competition will recognize projects, submitted jointly by the business owner and design team, that have been completed within the City of Detroit (including Highland Park and Hamtramck) within the last 5 years.
The competition is based on a model introduced in 1995 in Montreal—one of Detroit’s sister cities in the UNESCO network—and is licensed in more than a dozen cities around the world.
Meet Commerce Design: Detroit’s international panel of distinguished jurors
Elliot W. Broom
Vice President of Museum Operations
Detroit Institute of Arts
Sylvie Champeau
Counselor & Management Analyst
Design Bureau, City of Montreal
Najahyia Chinchilla
Architect,
Gensler Detroit
Michael Ford
Design Director, BrandNu Design
Founder, Hip Hop Architecture Camp
Sandra Olave
Asst. Professor, Chair of Interior Design
College for Creative Studies
Design Core Detroit has partnered with AIA Detroit, a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, to manage the competition, with support from Presenting Sponsor Bank of America.
Design Core Detroit champions design-driven businesses and their role in strengthening Detroit’s economy. Design Core is the steward of Detroit’s UNESCO City of Design designation and is a partnership of the College for Creative Studies and Business Leaders for Michigan.
