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You can now choose your favourite project from the shortlist
The People’s Choice Award for the identity Design Awards 2020 is open to a public vote, including all shortlisted projects. The winner will be announced as part of the wider virtual awards ceremony on 4 November 2020.
For the first time, the People’s Choice has been open to include all shortlisted projects instead of the winning projects of the year. This has been done to allow for our readers to have a larger involvement in the Awards and in choosing the winner.
Descriptions and images of the projects can be found here: https://identity.ae/tag/identity-design-awards-2020/.
The voting poll closes at 12 AM on 26 October 2020.
VOTE HERE: https://www.crowd.live/L9S9X
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