Grand Prize winner ($3,000). First runner up ($800). That’s what is at stake in the fourth annual “Dunn-Edwards 2024 Emerging Professionals Design Competition” for architecture and design students. There are other perks, too, for the competitors. Along with the Grand Prize money, the winner also will be featured on Dunn-Edwards specs + spaces® design blog, as well as have the opportunity to participate in the next AYDA Awards competition hosted by Nippon Paint. In that competition, the entrees will be critiqued by a global design community.

The winner will be the first and sole U.S. contestant, with Dunn-Edwards picking up all travel expenses for the winner to attend the competition in-person in Asia. Winners of the AYDA Awards also will attend the three-week, all-expenses-paid Design Discovery Programme at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Dunn-Edwards recognizes students of architecture and design as the future of the industry and encourages all emerging professionals, regardless of their skill level and experience, to submit an entry into the competition.

The theme of this year’s competition is influenced by Dunn-Edwards 2024 Color of the Year, Skipping Stones (DET567). Each entrant will be required to include the color, born from Dunn-Edwards 2024 Color + Design Trends, in their design. They also will be required to submit a mood board and renderings as a part of their entry. Learn more about the Emerging Professionals Design Competition guidelines.

Current architecture and design students who are enrolled in school can submit their entry online now through Aug. 18, 2024. There is no fee to enter. Winners will be announced by Sept. 30, 2024.

For more details, visit www.dunnedwards.com.