The International Design Resource Awards (IDRA) is an international design competition to encourage the use of post-consumer recycled, and reprocessed and sustainably harvested materials in new product designs and buildings. To see past winners see the links below.

AWARDS UPDATE

Coming in 2005 the 7th Design Resource Awards Competition - More news later! The Competition will focus on sustainably harvested materials, local production and compostability of products.

Winners of the 6th International Design Resource Awards Competition, focusing on new materials and sustainable design for products and architecture, were selected in Tokyo, Japan, on December 3, 2002. The first exhibit of the winners took place in Yokohama on March 19th, 2003. The winners were also shown at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City in May and at the California Gift Fair in Los Angeles in July. I would also like to express my profound gratitude to our colleagues and supporters in Japan who worked so hard to support the Competition and did such a wonderful job of hosting the jurying event: The Prefecture of Kanagawa, AMITA Corporation, Open House and the Eco Design Institute, and the Daishinsha Company.

EXHIBIT NEWS - Fall 2004

We are pleased to announce that the collection of Award winners from the 1st to the 6th Design Resource Awards Competition together with the Re(f)use Collection from the Arango Design Foundation have been donated to the Western Washington University to form the a reference library for a course of study on sustainable design created by the industrial design program and the Huxley College of the Environment.

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