Surface Travel Awards: About

At Surface, we see design as a catalyst for creative journeys. The Surface Travel Awards will anoint the most thoughtfully conceived new projects at the intersection of travel and design: hotels, restaurants, public spaces, retail outlets, cultural institutions, airports, travel products, luggage, branding, and more.

Produced in collaboration with Peter Frank, former director of editorial product development at Travel + Leisure, the program aims to raise global awareness of the crucial benefit of design as a means to improve our lives as we explore the world around us. Held in conjunction with the release of Surface’s Travel Issue, the awards ceremony will take place in October 2017.

Entry Requirements

One. The entry must pertain to one of the official categories. The entry must have been completed between January 1, 2016 and June 15, 2017.

Two. Entry fee: $100 per submission if submitted by April 10, 2017. $250 per submission thereafter. $75 for every additional entry after the first.

Three. All entries must be submitted by the deadline of June 15, 2017. Note: Only PDFs up to 10mb can be submitted through the entry form. PDF should contain: images/renderings, description, project brief, and any other pertinent material to help make your case to the jurors.

Four. A single project may be entered into multiple categories (for example, a hotel may enter under the Hotel category and the Branding category, or may submit its restaurant in the Restaurant category). A separate fee will be charged for each entry. Surface reserves the right to move entries to other categories if it is clearly appropriate to do so.

Five. The Awards are global and open to anyone, but submissions must be written in English.

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