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Canadian Cali Pitcher won first place in the FORM 2024 Student Innovation Competition, thanks to her work Notions.
Formica Canada announces the opening of the 2025 FORM Student Innovation Competition. Now in its eighth year, this annual furniture design competition invites students studying architecture and interior design in Canada, the U.S and Mexico to share their inventiveness through original designs that feature Formica Brand products with this year's theme “Designing for Well-being.”
The rising understanding of neuroaesthetics, how the aesthetics around us can impact our mental and physical health is making an impact in interior design, and Formica Corporation has made this the focal point of the 2025 competition.
“Designing for Well-being” will allow students to demonstrate how elements like colour, sound and patterns can have a positive impact on one’s well-being. Participating students will provide a project statement and color rendering of their furniture design that includes at least three or more Formica brand or FENIX products.
“The last edition of the competition attracted an exceptional group of Canadian students who distinguished themselves by the number of participants, but also by the creativity and quality of the designs submitted, especially the Canadian Cali Pitcher, grand prize winner of the competition” said Christelle Locat-Rainville, marketing director at Formica Canada.
“We can't wait to see how participants of the 2025 competition will interpret the theme “Designing for Well-being” and discover their creations”.
Each entrant will have the chance to win cash prizes and to get national recognition at NeoCon 2025, June 9-11, in Chicago, the leading design and event for commercial interiors.
The competition is open from Sept. 10, 2024, through March 7, 2025, with winners announced in early May. For more information, including complete competition details, resources and rules, visit: formica.com/FORMCompetition
