SEGD Global Design Awards 2025
The SEGD Global Design Awards are opening submissions for 2025, for another edition of this prestigious competition.
The SEGD Global Design Awards celebrate designers and design firms whose work innovates the practice of experience design and enriches the human experience for people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Winning projects across the awards’ seven categories have ranged from accessible museum exhibitions to complex airport wayfinding systems, and from thought-provoking social justice memorials to seamlessly interactive branded environments.
The awards competition encompasses seven categories that represent key practice areas of experiential design, including:
- Branded Environments — Spaces designed to extend the experience of an organization’s brand, or distinguishing characteristics as expressed in graphic elements
- Digital Experiences — Technology-driven experiences that augment and enhance a visitor’s connection to place through media
- Exhibition — Displays which orchestrate graphic, object or media elements to inform, interpret and educate visitors
- Placemaking — Projects that contribute to the creation of shared spaces and strengthen connections between people and place through graphic, text or media elements
- Public Installation — Projects which imbue public spaces with meaning, mood and context through art and design employing text, image, or media
- Strategy/Research/Planning — Masterplans, standards manuals, strategy documents and published work
- Wayfinding — Information systems that guide people through a physical environment and enhance their understanding and experience of the space
Projects must have been completed between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2024. Student projects must have been completed in 2023 or 2024 by full-time students.
Award winning projects will be publicly announced and honored 13-15 November, 2025 at the SEGD Conference in San Francisco, California.
Since 1987, the SEGD Global Design Awards have set the standard of excellence for experiential design, honoring work that connects people to place.
Fees
Entry fees for 2025 are yet to be announced, however they might not change from last year’s competition.
- SEGD Student Members: Free $0/entry
- Student Non-members: $50/entry
- SEGD Members: $325/entry. Three or more entries at $250/entry
- All others: $650/entry
There is a $100 late fee per project entered between 1 February and 28 February, 2025.
There is a $150 late fee for any project entered between 1 March and 15 March, 2025.