On February 9, Fast Company magazine announced the jury selection for the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA®). The internationally diverse jury of 10 men and 8 women, chaired by John Barratt, president and CEO of Teague, will include Michelle Berryman of EchoViz. Sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the IDEA® program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Michelle will be judging entries in the categories for environments and interactive product experiences. Judging will take place in April at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, with winners announced in the July/August issue of Fast Company magazine. Winners will be honored at this year’s IDSA international conference, held from August 5 to 7 in Portland, Oregon.

Principal Michelle Berryman participated on the jury for the Australian International Design Awards, highlighting the outstanding work of Australian designers and products available in the Australian market. The results of this year’s awards can be seen in the Australian Design Awards Yearbook, which is now online, and can be viewed here.

Echo Visualization wins again! Echo has won another Horizon Interactive award. This time the award is for the Cooper Lighting McGraw-Edison Talon Fixture Configurator in the Business to Business category. The award is for outstanding achievement among interactive media producers.

Michelle Berryman of EchoViz has been selected as a juror for the fourth annual Housewares Design Awards, to be held on November 14-16. Michelle will be one of 12 jurors for the event. The Housewares Design Awards recognizes design’s critical importance in the housewares industry. Submissions in 13 product categories will be evaluated, and five finalists per category will be chosen. The finalists will be notified in November and invited to the Awards Luncheon to be held on January 16, 2007 in New York City. At that event, the Best-in-Category selections will be announced.

Echo Visualization and Cooper Lighting received ‘Best in Show’ honors for booths 600 square feet and above at Lightfair 2006 in Las Vegas, by unanimous vote of the judges for the design of the Cooper Lighting exhibit. This is the first time that Cooper Lighting has ever garnered ‘Best in Show’ honors at Lightfair. Various defining factors, including effective branding, product presentation and unique use of design elements were utilized. The winners were selected by an independent panel of judges who bring decades of visual display expertise to the program.

The EchoViz team was also responsible for the interface design of the exhibit’s wireless lighting control system, multimedia plasma screen presentations, Energy Solutions Calculator demonstration and the on-site Internet-based ‘Voice of the Customer’ surveys. As part of the Lightfair rollout, EchoViz also assisted in updating the Lumiere, Corelite, Farallon and Healthcare brand websites for Cooper Lighting as well.

Lightfair is the world’s largest and most comprehensive annual architectural and commercial lighting conference. It is sponsored by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).

Echo Visualization wins two Horizon Interactive awards. This marks the second award for the Cooper Lighting Buyer’s Guide and the first for the Cooper Lighting F-Bay Calculator. The Cooper Lighting Buyer’s Guide won a Bronze award in the Self-Promotion / Company Identity category, and the F-Bay Calculator won a Bronze in the Business To Business category.

Josh Teague, one of our resident designers, had a big weekend up in Chattanooga, TN at the National Cre824 Web Design Competition. Josh entered the competition with a few old friends and took home top honors. He’s off to compete in Paris for the International competition in February. Look for team ‘Lorem Ipsum.’

Michelle Berryman, Principal of EchoViz, will be a juror for the prestigious Taiwan Design Award that is sponsored by the Taiwan Design Center as part of the annual Taiwan International Design Competition. Jurying will take place on October 13th & 14th in Kaohsiuang, Taiwan. Following this event, Michelle will be presenting “Branding in Multiple Dimensions” at the Taiwan International Design Forum in Taipei on October 18th from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM.

EchoViz Principal Michelle Berryman has been selected to juror the “RESI Awards”, a competition to honor the most innovative residential electronic product designs, sponsored by Residential Systems magazine. She will be part of an expert panel of dealers and design professionals to judge this year’s product entries based on their aesthetic appeal, solutions-based innovation, user friendliness and ease of manufacturing. This is the second year of the contest, and the second year that Michelle will judge the competition.

Echo Visualization is proud to announce another award for the InVUE Lighting Interactive Catalog. The Summit Creative Awards has given Echo a silver award for achievements in interactive work. Read the Press Release.