On Wednesday September 23rd, IDC celebrated its first ever virtual Awards Celebration. The event was hosted by IDC Past President, Jason Kasper and IDC CEO Trevor Kruse, broadcast simultaneous from Toronto, Ont. and Winnipeg, Man.
The awards were held in lieu of IDC’s annual design symposium, which was cancelled this year due to the global pandemic. Despite the obstacles, the Canadian interior design community came together again to celebrate design and innovation. The event celebrated winners of the 2020 Value of Design Awards (VODA), recognized participants of the PROpel Emerging Leaders program, and acknowledged the IDC Legacy Award for Distinguished Service, IDC Fellows, Honorary Members, the Robert Ledingham Scholarship, BYU Design Bursary, and the Wayne Thomson Bursary.
A special thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible: Midgley Tecnica, Samsung, Blum, Toronto International Design Centre, Benjamin Moore, Prolink, Formica, and Lutron.
Legacy Award
This year IDC presented Cary Pepper, Sales Manager, Lutron Electronics with the second IDC Legacy Award for Distinguished Service. The recipient of this award exemplifies outstanding service and dedication to IDC and more broadly to the interior design community in Canada. The award honours the individuals, companies or institutions that are recognized as being trailblazers to the design community nationally.
IDC Fellows
IDC Past President, Jason Kasper was inducted into the IDC College of Fellows during the Awards Celebration this year.
Honorary Members
From left to right: Brynell D’Mello, Thom Banks, and Holly Mattson.
As an organization that often relies so much on the services and help of others, IDC looked for a way to honour the people who have been a part of the interior design community for many years, but who often work behind the scenes. The people who ensure that accreditation, education, and certification programs run smoothly. This year IDC was pleased to grant an honorary membership to three very deserving people: Brynell D’Mello, Thom Banks, and Holly Mattson.
Value of Design Awards (VODA)
This year, 12 Canadian design firms from coast to coast were honoured at IDC’s virtual Value of Design Awards (VODA) celebration. These awards, which launched in 2018, shine a spotlight on Canadian interior designers by providing a forum to showcase the benefits of design thinking: an empathetic, inventive, and iterative process focused on the human experience within interior spaces.
The 2020 Value of Design Awards were presented to the following winners who continue to push the boundaries of interior design. These designers have shown and implemented an empathetic, inventive, and iterative process, focusing on the human experience into within their projects, creating sustainable and functional designs for the present and future.
Award of Excellence
Innovation in Residential Single-Family Design: ‘ShadowBox’ by Johnson Chou Inc. (Johnson Chou) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘BFR Accountants’ by Folio Design Inc. (Véronique Chayer) Laval, Que.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘COWI North America’ by Square One Interior Design (Cynthia Ziolkoski, Jennifer Hamilton) North Vancouver, B.C.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Flight Centre Flagship Toronto’ by Figure3 (Suzanne Wilkinson, Anna-Lisa Frank, Tamara Rooks, Katherine Egenberger, Will Gray, Jaime Muszynski) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Hullmark Head Office at 474 Wellington Street West’ by Quadrangle (Julie Sumairski, Kim Phan) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘OPG Workplace Transformation’ by Figure3 (Suzanne Wilkinson, Michelle Berry, Daniel Norwood, Michela Kochanski) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘The Smart City Sandbox’ by IBI Group Architects (Canada) Inc. (Jane Juranek, Katie McCann) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Workplace Innovation Challenge’ by IBI Group Architects (Canada) Inc. (Jane Juranek, Shana Davies) Toronto, Ont.
Award of Merit
Innovation in Design Thinking: ‘Imperfect Fresh Eats’ by Syllable Inc. (Danny Tseng) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Design Thinking: ‘OPG Workplace Transformation’ by Figure3 (Suzanne Wilkinson, Michelle Berry, Daniel Norwood, Michela Kochanski) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Hospitality Design: ‘Hotel Belmont Food & Beverage Portion’ by Kado Design and Daniel Meloché Design (Joanna Kado, Daniel Meloché) Vancouver, B.C.
Innovation in Institutional/Educational/Civic Design: ‘Odeyto Indigenous Centre’ by Gow Hastings Architects (Valerie Gow) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Retail Design: ‘Inscape Showroom’ by Figure3 (Suzanne Wilkinson, Mardi Najafi, Nicole Hoppe, Shannon Kehoe) Toronto, Ont.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Mitecvsat-Alga Micro Ondes’ by Folio Design Inc. (Julie Laforêt) Kirkland, Que.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Peoples Group Workplace Design’ by DIALOG (Michelle Sigurdson) Vancouver, B.C.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Spear Street Capital – Willingdon Business Park Building 6’ by SSDG Interiors Inc. (Susan Steeves, Katy Maclean) Burnaby, B.C.
Innovation in Workplace Design: ‘Volaris’ by Bartlett & Associates (Inger Bartlett) Toronto, Ont.
Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s IDC awards, scholarships, bursaries and fellowships!
For more information on IDC awards and this year’s winners, please contact communications@idcanada.org.
