Calling All Restaurant Designers

Of the many design awards programs out there, this has to be the most mouth-watering: the James Beard Award for Design and Architecture. LA graphic designer Noreen Morioka, of AdamsMorioka,…

Of the many design awards programs out there, this has to be the most mouth-watering: the James Beard Award for Design and Architecture. LA graphic designer Noreen Morioka, of AdamsMorioka, is chair of the 2011 awards committee and is calling on designers of restaurant architecture and graphics to submit entries by the January 28 deadline, in readiness for jury selection on February 5th. The lucky winners get to receive their awards at the Lincoln Center in New York. Last year the restaurant design award was won by Andre Kikoski for his dazzling “Wright” restaurant at the Guggenheim Museum. “This is an award that not many of us think about,” says Morioka, “but it has such a wonderful impact in the consumer market influencing the perception of design.” For more information, click here.