More than 700,000 carpet samples will ship this year, helping architects and interior designers move closer to choosing the perfect carpet for installation into their projects.
Too often, after they've served their purpose, they are destined for the dumpster (and ultimately the landfill). Even with the development of Tryk™ sustainable sampling tools to reduce the number of samples, which is in use at Bentley Prince Street, physical samples are still important design tools, for final product selection and client presentations.
Ample Sample 2008 challenges you to "Rethink. Reuse. Upcycle", and repurpose these samples, after their usefulness to a design project, to make a design product. Winning designs will be judged upon criteria of aesthetics, purpose, ease of creation, creativity, durability, number/volume of carpet samples or Tryks used.
The winning designs will be promoted at NeoCon World’s Trade Fair 2008, in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. Winners will also be featured in Floor Focus magazine, and of course, will have blueprints of their design made available for free download to forward-thinking design firms around the world. Qualified design leaders from this year’s sponsors will select the 10 finalists and a winner. The cut-off date for entries is May 13, so don’t hesitate. You’ll be notified by May 30 if you’re a finalist.
Bentley Prince Street
Based in Los Angeles County, California, Bentley Prince Street is a leading manufacturer of commercial carpet for corporate, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, residential and retail interiors.
Bentley Prince Street is continually searching for improvements to compete successfully in a more environmentally aware marketplace and to develop new process and product innovations that will contribute to its Mission Zero™ goal of zero environmental footprint by the year 2020.
Bentley Prince Street is a subsidiary of Interface, Inc., a global provider of floorcoverings and textiles for commercial interiors.
Floor Focus
Floor Focus is a monthly magazine of analysis and education for the floor covering industry's interconnected business sectors: retailers, distributors, contract dealers, manufacturers, architects, designers and commercial end users. We connect the dots between the different industry sectors and tell you how each event could affect the entire industry.
Tricycle
Tricycle® launched a transformation of the interiors industry in 2002, with design tools and services using Tryk™ digital product simulation to eliminate wasted time, money and natural resources. In the five years since, the company has earned international design and sustainable leadership honors. Tricycle is committed to bettering economic, environmental and social profitability for manufacturers in the commercial and hospitality sectors of the interiors industry.
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Enter Ample Sample and create a design idea that will transform carpet samples into a fixture, a personal accessory, or any other product you dream up!
Check out our new categories for students and Tryk samples.
Winning designs will be promoted at NeoCon, in Floor Focus Magazine and available as a free download to forward-thinking designers from around the world.
Entries for 2008 are no longer being accepted.
