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International Excellence Awards 2027: Press Kit

Press kit for media partners. Below you will find the International Excellence Awards 2027 call for entries press release (ready to copy, links included), banners in several formats and images of the 2026 winners. Everything is free to publish. Please credit the winners as given in the file names.

Press release

International Excellence Awards 2027: Call for Entries Now Open

The International Excellence Awards 2027 (IEA) invite architects, interior and landscape designers, product and fashion designers, studios, manufacturers and students from any country to enter built and conceptual work. Organised by Architecture & Design Community, the programme opens its third season with 11 categories and 240 nominations. Register for IEA 2027 on the official awards page.

Categories. Architecture, Interior, Landscape, Fashion, Furniture, Lighting, Packaging, Product, Transportation, Communication and AI-Powered Innovation, a category for projects created fully or partially with AI. Projects completed or designed within the last seven years are accepted.

Judging. Entries are reviewed blind, with entrant information removed. Each juror scores every project independently on a 1–10 scale against three criteria: Innovation & Originality, Design & Aesthetic Quality, and Functionality & Spatial Integration. The award level depends on the project’s average score, not on ranking: Platinum (9.0–10), Gold (7.5–8.9), Silver (6.0–7.4) or Bronze (4.5–5.9). The 2027 jury brings together architects and designers from Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and the USA.

2026 Platinum winners included Saint Ives by Max Nobel, Nobel LA (USA); Pandora by Lee Chung-Lin, YUN-YIH Design Company (Taiwan); and CASA JESUS & ULRIKE by Mauricio Ceballos, MCXA (Mexico).

Key dates

Early Bird registration: 30 October 2026
Advance registration: 24 November 2026
Standard registration: 8 January 2027
Extended registration: 9 February 2027
Late registration: 16 March 2027
Project submission: 19 March 2027
Winners announced: 6 April 2027

Students receive a 50% discount. Winners receive a certificate, a custom award logo, a banner kit and a winner’s page on the awards website; trophies can be ordered separately.

About. The International Excellence Awards were founded in 2025 by Architecture & Design Community to recognise architecture and design work worldwide. Full rules, categories and registration: designskill.org/international-excellence-awards.

Banners

Click a banner to open the full-size file (right-click and Save to download). Each banner shows the full deadline schedule, the 11 categories and three credited 2026 Platinum winners.

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