IIDA’s 8th International InteriCAD Interior Designer Award 2012

Goh Gek Soon, Veronica Lee, Jeff Ng & Peter Loo

Last Thursday, I was at Bistro 42, Bangsar Village 2, KL to attend the announcement of IIDA’s 8th International InteriCAD Interior Designer Awards that will culminate in a coronation ceremony of its winners at the finale in December.

What is IIDA?

International InteriCAD Interior Design Award (IIDA) is a professional interior design award that aims to provide a world class platform to recognize and award outstanding designers, acknowledge design excellence, encourage innovation, new ideas and techniques within the interior design industry.

In the past 7 years, IIDA has successfully grown to be one of the prestigious awards in the Malaysia interior design industry. Moving more aggressively with its aim, the award has reached to a greater height by involving more countries to participate since last year, namely, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Denmark, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia.

International InteriCAD Interior Design Award (IIDA) is organized by TS Exim and endorsed by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI) and Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, Malaysia (KeTTHA), and supported by Malaysia Green Building Confederation (MGBC).

1st row: Lew Shu Ni, Veronica Lee, Caron Yeong & Jason Tan

2nd row: Low Chin Guan Jeff Ng, Alvin Yong & Zahari Mahfuz

Veronica Lee, Jeff Ng , Xavier Mah, Peter Loo

at the tete-a-tete session with Veronica Lee and Jeff Ng
hosted by Xavier Mah

Veronica Lee, Jeff Ng & Xavier Mah (Emcee)

Veronica Lee & Jeff Ng

In fact, quite the opposite is true, as Jeff Ng, organizing chairman of the “Through this effort, the standard of regional design will be elevated to an international level,” he said.

This year also highlights Special Awards Categories presented by IIDA sponsors including: Best InteriCAD 3D Award, Best Lighting Award, Go Green Lighting Award, Best Colour Award, Best Kitchen Design Award, Best Laminate Flooring Award, Best Tiles Application Award and Best Wallpaper Application Award. These encourage creative and innovative application of respective sponsors’ products and materials, while enhancing respective brand awareness among designers’ community.

“In addition, we would like to highlight the Top Rising Star Designer Award in recognition of outstanding young designers – age 30 years old and below – who have shown innovation in their application of existing techniques,” he said. “It’s our fervent hope that IIDA would be the spark that brings forth the best in our young and talented new crop of international designers so that their work would eventually gain recognition in the local and international arena”

With RM50,000 worth of cash prizes at stake, IIDA 2012 is calling for submissions until the end of September. October will be the preliminary judging and November will be the final judging. The winners will be announced in December 2012.