Entry Information
Choosing a Category
Please review all category descriptions before beginning the online submission process and select the category that best represents your project.
Your written project statement should clearly demonstrate how the entry aligns with the selected category.
If an entry does not appropriately align with its selected category, Window Fashion VISION may reassign the entry, request clarification, or remove it from consideration.
How Entries Are Judged
Entries are reviewed anonymously by a panel of experienced design-industry professionals.
Projects are evaluated based on the submitted photography and written project statement. Depending on the category, judges may consider:
- Design concept and visual impact
- Creativity and originality
- Cohesiveness of design elements
- Functionality and response to client needs
- Craftsmanship and attention to detail
- Technical execution
- Problem-solving and project complexity
- Relevance to the selected category
- Overall quality of the completed project
To preserve anonymous judging, do not include your name, business name, logo, client name, or other identifying information in your project statement or submitted images whenever possible.
All judging decisions are final.
Photography Requirements
Photography is an important part of your submission and should clearly showcase the quality of your work.
Each entry must include:
- A minimum of two and maximum of eight photographs
- At least one full-room or full-treatment image
- At least one close-up image highlighting important details
- High-resolution JPG files suitable for judging and publication
- Recommended resolution of 300 dpi or approximately 2700 x 3450 pixels
Images should be well lit, properly focused, and professional in quality. Blurry, dark, heavily filtered, low-resolution, or otherwise difficult-to-evaluate images may affect judging or may not be considered.
Standard adjustments such as cropping, exposure, and color correction are permitted. Images may not be altered in a way that changes the design, adds or removes project elements, conceals flaws, or otherwise misrepresents the completed work.
Photography Rights & Permissions
By submitting photography, you confirm that you have the legal right and necessary permissions to submit and share the images.
Entrants are responsible for securing any required permissions from photographers, clients, homeowners, businesses, designers, workrooms, installers, vendors, or other parties involved in the project.
Copyrighted photography may only be submitted when the entrant has obtained appropriate permission for Window Fashion VISION, The Grace Awards, and IWCE to use the images.
By submitting an entry, you grant Window Fashion VISION, The Grace Awards, and IWCE permission to publish, display, reproduce, edit for layout, promote, and archive submitted photography and project information in print, digital, web, email, social media, event, editorial, and promotional materials related to the competition and its programs.
Submission materials will not be returned.
Your Project Statement
Every entry must include a written project statement explaining why the project deserves recognition.
Your statement is an important part of the judging process. Use it to tell the story behind the finished project and provide context that may not be immediately apparent from the photography.
Consider addressing:
- The inspiration behind the project
- The client's needs or goals
- Design or fabrication challenges
- How challenges were solved
- Special materials, trims, hardware, or techniques
- Motorization or technology incorporated into the project
- Unique design or construction decisions
- How the treatment enhanced the space
- What makes the project exceptional within its category
Be specific and compelling. Help the judges understand not only what they are seeing, but why the project stands out.
Do not include identifying information in your statement.
Finalists and winners may be asked to provide additional project details, photography, quotes, interviews, or other information for editorial and promotional purposes.