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2010 MOD Awards Finalists Named
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

2010 MOD Awards Finalists Named

The only awards recognition program for designers using modular and systems-based architecture have announced the finalists. This year’s quantity of entries received was the program’s largest ever, and the judges proclaimed that the designs were “the best they’ve seen” since the MOD Awards debuted in 2007.

The program, which recognizes modular exhibit design of several shapes and sizes, has quickly become the industry’s preeminent competition for creators of portable and systems-based exhibits and event structures.

The winners will be announced at the MOD 2010 event in Las Vegas on March 16. And in a unique twist, the audience themselves will be the ones that select the winners. With a nod to popular voting-based properties such as "American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars," an all-star cast of judges (Famed designers Mitchell Mauk and Russ Fowler with globally respected exhibit house chief Derek Gentile of EEI Global) will give their comments on each finalist but MOD attendees will select the actual winners in each, using Audience Response Systems technology. The event will one again be hosted by well-known Hollywood celeb Leeza Gibbons.

Finalists, by category and in alpha order by designer:

Best 10x10
Project: Regional Dental Show
Client: Cleankeys
Design/Fabrication: The Portables

Project: Etail West
Client: Range Online Media
Design/Fabrication: TW Design

Best 10x20
Project: American Society of Human Genetics
Client: Illumina
Design/Fabrication: Derse

Project: Loblaws Vendor Show
Client: Windset Farms
Design/Fabrication: The Portables

Best 20x20 and up
Project: 2010 Exhibit
Client: BP
Design/Fabrication: 2020 Exhibits

Project: GITEX
Client: Mobily
Design/Fabrication: Inter-Global Exhibitions

Best Custom Modular Exhibit
Project: ASCO 2009
Client: Celgene Corp.
Design/Fabrication: Access TCA

Project: ADA Show
Client: P&G Oral Health Crest Oral-B
Design/Fabrication: Inter-Global Exhibitions

Best Extrusion-Anchored Design
Project: Promo Kit
Client: Octanorm
Design/Fabrication: Abex

Project: SIBOS
Client: Fiserv
Design/Fabrication: Derse

Best Fabric-Anchored Design
Project: Microsoft Management Summit
Client: Bridgeways
Design/Fabrication: Jack Geoghegan, E4 Design

Project: University Fair
Client: Lakehead University
Design/Fabrication: The Portables

Best Panel-Anchored Design
Project: PittCon
Client: AMETEK
Design: Art Guild-Avalon
Fabrication: Laarhoven Design

Project: ASCO
Client: PRA International
Design: StewartMDM
Fabrication: Laarhoven Design

Best Green Exhibit
Project: Supercomputing Show
Client: Cray
Design/Fabrication: Derse

Project: Microsoft Management Summit
Client: Bridgeways
Design/Fabrication: Jack Geoghegan, E4 Design














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