Mod Awards

ON MARCH 16, 2010, YOU WILL CHOOSE AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODULAR

Be our guest, and join our audience and distinguished panel of judges to select the winners of the 2010 Mod Awards. This year, winners will be selected in each of eight portable modular categories including:

The Editors of Event Design Magazine will pre-select two finalists in each category. The category winner will be selected live at MOD ‘10 by our audience along with the winner of the prestigious Best of MOD award.

2010 Best of MOD Winner

Best of MOD
Project: University Fair
Client: Lakehead University
Design/Fabrication: The Portables

2010 Mod Award Category Winners

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

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

Best Fabric-anchored Design
Project: University Fair
Client: Lakehead University
Design/Fabrication: The Portables

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

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

Best Extrusion-based Design
Project: Exhibitor 2009
Client: Octanorm
Design/Fabrication: Abex

Best Panel-anchored Design
Project: ASCO
Client: PRA International
Design/Fabrication: StewartMDM / Laarhoven Design

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

2010 MOD Award Finalists

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LAS VEGAS – Over 250 industry professionals came to celebrate excellence in portable and modular exhibit design at the fourth annual MOD Awards, held at March 16 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. Hosted by celebrity TV and radio personality Leeza Gibbons, the event also raised funds for Leeza’s Place, a charity foundation for caregivers of persons affected by Alzheimer’s Disease.

In the spirit of the “America’s next top model” theme, models dressed by designer Kathy Yoon paraded down the runway in outfits flashing with LED lighting and metal extrusion parts. And then all lights were on exhibits. It had been a difficult year for the industry, making it that much more challenging to marry creativity and economic sense.

“Are you ready to MOD?” cheered Dan Hanover, editor and publisher of Event Marketer and Event Design magazines, and introduced the panel of judges, which included Derek Gentile, president and CEO of EEI Global, Russ Fowler, head of design at Derse, and designer Mitchell Mauk, Principal of Mauk Design.

This year‘s competition had been expanded to nine categories, with over 200 entries submitted. Led by Hanover, the panel presented their opinions on the two finalists for each category but then it was up to the audience to decide the winners using instant tallying technology

And the winners are:

Best 10x10: The Portables, Cleankeys
Best 10x20: Derse, lllumina
Best 20x20: 2020 Exhibits, BP
Best Custom modular: Access TCA, Celgene Corp
Best Green: Derse, Cray
Best Fabric-anchored: The Portables, Lakehead University
Best Panel-anchored: Laarhoven Design, PRA International
Best Extrusion-based: Abex, Octanorm
Best of MOD: The Portables, Lakehead University

Robbie Blumenfeld, president and CEO of Abex Display Systems and one of the Presenting sponsors of MOD, drew the audience’s attention to the topics that are changing the industry right now – drayage and keeping jobs.

“Exhibitors are leaving, and unless we do something about it, we are going to see it more and more,” he said. “But there is a silver lining. There is a real opportunity here if we all work together to stall these problems. Sitting in this room are the people who are doing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of exhibition business. There is an opportunity to lower exhibit-related costs through pressure from within our industry while at the same time offering exhibitors lighter, smarter exhibits that can reduce their total tradeshow-related expenses.” Blumenfeld also announced a new partnership between Abex Exhibit Systems and designer Mitchell Mauk. “I’ve been tryingfor years to convince Mitchell to design a line of portable modular exhibits for us and I’m happy say that we’ve come to an agreement,” he said. “Hopefully that line will be coming into our product line sometime in the fall of 2010.”

MOD ‘10 and the 2010 MOD Awards were presented by Event Design, Exhibit City News, Abex Exhibit Systems, Octanorm USA, Laarhoven Design, Dave Barten Production Services, K & S Floor Studio, NuVista, EliteXPO, ExhibitForce, Trussworks, Catch the Moment, Quicktally, Encore, Exposures Photography, Dazian Rentals, Quick Tally, V3 Data and Print, Clegg Promo and other leading exhibit and event resources.

From L to R: This year our MOD Awards judges will be Russ Fowler of Derse, Derek Gentile of EEI Global and Mitchell Mauk of Mauk Design.