Restaurant & Bar Design Awards

Design Excellence is design meant as Art and Poetry, is what characterizes the Italian Design Factories, a historical group of companies considering design as a key-element of their activity.

Design excellence is achieving a successful marriage of style and functional performance whilst being relevant to the brand, consumer and design category.

Coming from a world of ship design where every inch of space and each kilogram of weight are critical; for me, Design Excellence is the unification of form and function without waste.

Design Excellence is based on deep research. Research of forms, materials, techniques, colors, finishings, details. Research of design history and its professionals. Research of different cultures and traditions...

Design excellence is when original ideas are realised to near perfection...

Design excellence has to embody form and function with something that takes your breath away. Comfort and inspiration are closer than you think.

Design excellence has the power to infect each of our senses. Whether it's the texture & scent of raw materials, the sculptural play of light on surfaces or the sounds & movement generated by spaces.

Amazing design is modern art at its most user friendly. When something is functional, beautiful and imaginatively realised it is truly life enhancing. It can inspire like nothing else.

Excellent design is about "people meets in design", and about human beings how to live on the land romantically. Design excellence focus on poetic, sustainable, morality, aesthetic and functional quality.

John Lau founded Firefly Lighting Design with Peter Veale in 2003. The award winning consultancy has offices both in UK and Hong Kong, working on a variety of international projects.

Design excellence can and should! Touch me. Hit me. Surprise me. Energise me. Do something. Do something now. Something excellent.

My thoughts on the Ultimate Recipe for Design Excellence: One portion of a simple idea, researched until correct balance is achieved.

Good design should aim to be sensitive to cultural context, create a pleasurable aesthetic experience, achieve high technical performance, and integrate with the environment in a sustainable manner.

Design Excellence enhances the environment in which it's found; performs the function for which it\'s intended flawlessly; and inspires the people for whom it was created.

It is the coherency of the program, the budget, the geographical location, and the design intention to provide the best project; from the smallest detail to its overall idea!

Design excellence is the 1% extra, that accounts for 50% of the design effort, that makes something 100% better than the stuff around it.

Good design can come from the head, but great design must come from the heart as well.

Making something striking and pleasing to the eye! Interesting, enticing but most importantly interactive! Good design should enhance the environment rather than dominate it.

Design excellence is for me the combination of three things. An innovative approach or idea, a good execution, and finally durability.

Design is about making things better and consumers happier.