Peak IMPACT Award & Ridgeline Award Entry Guidelines
Application Guidelines & Requirements

Overview

The Peak IMPACT Award and the Ridgeline Award recognize IIDA members whose work advances the interior design profession and demonstrates meaningful public impact. These awards highlight leadership, advocacy, and professional responsibility, with a focus on health, safety, welfare, and community benefit. Narrative responses may also be leveraged to support advocacy and legislative efforts.

Peak IMPACT Award

Inspired by the Rocky Mountain region, the Peak IMPACT Award represents the highest level of professional achievement. This honor recognizes individuals whose sustained leadership and body of work have meaningfully advanced the interior design profession. Honorees demonstrate lasting influence through advocacy and policy efforts, mentorship, sustainability, and design excellence, with work that has positively impacted people and communities over time. This award celebrates industry leaders and established designers, who continue to pave the way through ongoing advocacy and leadership efforts.

Eligibility & Criteria

· Nominees must be an active IIDA member 

· Minimum 8+ years of professional experience in interior design or a closely related field

· Open to established professionals and industry leaders

· Nominees must demonstrate long-term impact on the profession through leadership, advocacy, policy efforts, mentorship, sustainability, and/or design excellence

· Work must demonstrate a measurable contribution to health, safety, and welfare, and benefit the public or communities over time

· Nominees must consent to participation and use of submitted materials

Ridgeline Award

The Ridgeline Award honors emerging professionals and students who are already making a meaningful impact on the interior design profession. Positioned between the valley and the peak, a ridgeline represents momentum, visibility, and forward progress. This award recognizes early leadership, advocacy, and design contributions that demonstrate a strong trajectory toward shaping the future of the profession. Recipients show promise through thoughtful engagement, influence within their communities, and a clear commitment to advancing interior design through action, voice, and vision.

Eligibility & Criteria

· Students or emerging professionals with approximately 0–8 years of experience

· Open to individuals demonstrating early leadership, advocacy, and design impact

· Nominees must show clear trajectory toward future leadership in the profession

· Work should demonstrate an understanding of health, safety, and welfare, even at an early career stage

· Nominees may be an IIDA member or student member, or actively engaged in IIDA programs, advocacy, or community efforts