$100,000 Global Design Prize to Be Awarded in Louisville
IdeaFestival, that bastion of innovative ideas and big thinking that happens each September in Louisville has announced that a brand new $100,00 design prize will be given away at the 2008 festival.
The Curry Stone Foundation (CSF) has just announced the establishment of the Curry Stone Design Prize, an ambitious annual award of $100,000 for "...exceptional emerging designers with extraordinary design projects or ideas that contribute positively to living conditions for broad sections of global humanity". This international award will be presented beginning in 2008 at the annual IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky. The Prize, developed in partnership with the University of Kentucky College of Design, is being supported through CSF established by UK alumnus Clifford Curry and his wife H. Delight Stone, of Oregon. IF is excited about the establishment of the Curry Stone Design Prize, it's involvement with the Festival and the opportunity it presents to greatly expand the international design content at the event.
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