Green design competition launched

By Linda B. Bolido |Philippine Daily Inquirer

FROM left: Regala; Caringal; Goh; Dr. Lilia de Jesus, president of Interior Design Educators Council; Chona Elvas-Ponce, treasurer of Council of Deans and Heads of Architecture Schools of the Philippines, and Bobadilla

Nippon Paint has launched in the Philippines its annual Nippon Paint Young Designer Award (NPYDA), a competition that aims to inspire interior design and architecture students to apply creativity and innovation in improving their communities and to push the boundaries for future living.

Initiated in 2008, this years competition hews even more closely to Nippon Paints corporate commitment with the theme, Re: Think. Re: Create. Our Community, Our Home. The company expects the theme to challenge participants to create a township that is community-centric and sustainable, providing a high quality of life for everyone.

The theme is also meant to enhance students knowledge of how color and design can contribute to beautifying the environment and how it can benefit people and the community.

Almost a third, or 30 percent, of ratings in the two contest categoriesinterior design and architecturewill come from green design elements.

Green is not just plants

Nippon Paint says that although its products are available in thousands of colors, it is most interested in green. But contrary to some peoples view that green is having potted ornamentals and a few shrubs, Nippons green means protecting and preserving the environment.

It says it dedicates our best efforts to protect and preserve Mother Nature for the benefit of future generations, reducing energy consumption and minimizing water disposal in the production process, and developing products with ultra-low volatile organic compoundchemicals that evaporate or vaporize, rapidly posing a threat to human health and the environmentand are energy-saving.

Gladys Goh, group general manager of Nippon Paint Malaysia, says the company has a long-standing belief that the ability to break convention and boundaries is found in the minds of the young, the new generation. NPYDA, she says, aims to help shape future interior designers and architects.

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