The Commercial II Design Students are hoping for sweet success this Fall as they compete in the annual Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) Competition. This year's competition is sponsored by Godiva Chocolatier Inc., a global brand with multiple points of distribution, plans to launch a new iconic boutique that will highlight its chocolate assortments in company-owned locations throughout the world. The students are challenged to design a 1,000-sq.-ft. chocolate environment.
The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE), founded in 1992, has grown into the retail design, planning, and visual merchandising industry’s premier educational foundation, and a recognized advocate for design students. These students are the future of the industry—PAVE’s mission is to help them gain exposures and funds to further their educations, as well as their careers.
Educators, retailers, and industry suppliers support PAVE through active participation in the organization and generous financial contributions.
In 1992, PAVE’s founding board was comprised of educators, the media, manufacturers, retailers, and representatives of, at that time, the leading industry organizations. Founding organizations included ISP (Ruth Mellergaard, then president); NADI (Richard Stolls, then president); SVM (Martin Pegler and Eric Feigenbaum); retailers Cecil Besselleau of Belk Stores and Steven Bergquist of Federated Department Stores; Wayne E. Visbeen, who had recently started his own architectural design firm, Visbeen Associates, and VM+SD Magazine (Janet Groeber, then editor).
Since 1993, PAVE has sponsored a Student Design Competition for students enrolled in both two-year and four-year design programs. The competition challenges the students to create design solutions for real-life retail situations. The competition is open to U.S. and international design students PAVE has awarded thousands of dollars to winning students as well as providing an award to the school the students attend.
For more information and contest details please visit www.pave.org
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