Voting Open for Mannington's Design Contest

Calhoun, GA, May 12, 2010--Beginning today, the public can vote in Mannington Commercial's Tx:Style Design Challenge 2010.

The interiors industry’s product development and social networking contest, which garnered half a million votes last year, has six designs created by young designers, each with less than seven years of experience. The designs range from inspiration and application, organic to geometric, and layered patterns to pure texture.

This year the designers were offered the opportunity to interpret their concepts into both carpet and hard surface, and the Grand Prize winners will be chosen by the public vote.

“The process of taking a single design concept and translating it into two vastly different flooring mediums has been fascinating,” said Natalie Jones, vice president of Commercial Brand Development and Creative Product.

“These young designers work with a real understanding of materials and their impact on a space. Their ability to interpret a design into LVT or rubber tile, as well as a more subjective representation in tufted carpet, has been wonderful to see.”

In the two months since announcing the finalists, Mannington’s design development team has worked closely with all six designers to develop patterns, manufacture product samples and create coordinated colorways. The designs are: Blue Matrix by Athena Abrol of Los Angeles; Gus by Bethany Burton of Minneapolis; Rainfall by Laurel Harrison of Los Angeles; Throw Caution to the Wind by Heather Miller of Charlotte, North Carolina; Thirds by Joanne Titcomb of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and Tracks, by a team of Samantha Gotta and Jenny Song of Los Angeles.

Vote can be made at manningtoncommercial.com/txstyle.