Vand Award - Celebrating Calm, Ethical One-Color Designs

Vand Award
We Award Quietness in Design

Visual pollution has become universal today, leading to heightened anxiety in human beings. Across various disciplines of design, this noise has only grown. Both humanity and our environment yearn for a sense of calmness to truly grasp the essence of our world.

Award Winners; 2023

Award Winners; 2023

In contrast to ostentatious and flashy designs, we aim to curate and showcase designs that exude a sense of calmness. We want to ensure these designs receive the recognition and respect they deserve within the community and the wider world.

Award Judging

Award Judging

While self-evaluation can be a source of anxiety, it's a necessary step to ensure the selection of gentle and calm designs. This year, a panel of judges, whose introduction will follow, will be responsible for this task. In the previous year, we entrusted this responsibility to nine renowned designers spanning different generations.

Award Book 2023

The Design Vand Award showcased a remarkable focus on one-color designs in its recent edition. This prestigious event brought together a panel of judges and talented designers from five continents. The outstanding creations of these esteemed judges and designers, along with the noteworthy nominees for the award, have been meticulously curated and published in a book, now available for purchase on Amazon's website.

This book offers a captivating glimpse into the world of one-color designs, capturing the essence of creativity and innovation from a global perspective.Available on Amazon

Vand Award We Award Quietness in Design

As is evident, we value designs that convey a sense of calm to the audience, and such designs will be rewarded. We are looking for works that avoid bold or aggressive expressions, while remaining visually appealing. To evaluate the designs, we consider three key criteria.

1.Gentle Shapes

Forms should be humble, not showing a computer designed them. A perfect circle, smooth polished vertical lines, and sharp and right angles are not humble, and they have the coldness and harshness of a machine. In this century, we need more gentle designs. Similar to the uneven surface of fruits, trees, sand, and stones. But today's proud object shave precise, smooth, sharp, and perfect forms. Flawless forms create a sense of artificiality and roughness. We value designs that give people a sense of comfort, warmth, and intimacy, something we need.

2.Pause Spaces

One of the tricks of businesses to attract attention is to create anxiety. They deceive people with significant and repeating shapes, shapes, and effects, make hast decisions, and buy what they don't need. Designs with white, calm, and empty spaces do not give a sense of anxiety. According to this award, white and blank spaces create a sense of peace and security in the eyes of the audience. We appreciate the designs that respect such value in their design.

3.One Calm Color

As in the previous year of the Vand Award, also in this year, only designs that are designed with one color will be accepted. If 95% of a design has one color, it is one color, and it will be accepted in the award. There are more explanations about this in the submission section. Many businesses use colors to steal people's attention due to quick economic gain quickly. Of course, these colors successfully distract people, but they have made the world restless and anxious. We value calm, gentle, non-main, non-industrial, non-Bauhaus, and non attractive colors.

Participationin the Award

You are encouraged to participate in this event by submitting your designs, whether executed or not, customized or not. This includes computer files such as renderings, mockups, and photographs of designs that have been produced.

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