Peter Kuchnicki

Spark Design Awards

All Design--All Designers--One For All...
Spark is the innovation and design competition for all types of design, from architecture to digital, product to graphics, systems to world-changing. Sponsors & Partners include HP, Autodesk & Bravo Media

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Growth

PETER KUCHNICKI

President of the Spark Design Awards, Peter has created and produced over 67 major events, exhibitions, conferences and competitions in the areas of design, communications and creativity.

Peter's work has culminated in the Spark Awards competition, which discovers and awards innovative concepts from all disciplines and levels of society.

He produced the GOING Conference on alternative transportation, the WonderBrands, Wires & Tires, Business UnUsual, Net@Work and Metropolis West conferences, LatinExpo—the First Hispanic Marketing Exposition, the Creative Seminars and Creative Shootout Competitions, Creativity (Canada), the Home Office Magazine Conferences, Creative Media Awards, Malta Creative Marketing conferences, Creativa Awards (collaboration in Mexico) and over 1,200 workshops in the Adweek Seminar Series.

Peter began his career with the launch and publication of Cinegram Magazine, concerning film and pioneering coverage of the New Media, and the Slicker Metrotab, an entertainment and events newspaper covering the Detroit-Ann Arbor scenes. Both publications won positive critical reviews and national exposure. He moved to NYC into roles at Electronic News and MISWeek and participated in the launch year of USA Today. At the invitation of legendary editor Clay Felker, he moved into new business development at ASM Communications, home of Adweek Magazine. As Special Projects Executive Director, he was quickly immersed in the rapid changes taking place in the wide world of communications. Responsibilities there included database development, M&A, circulation for 24 publications, directory and research publication and events.

On the design front, Peter has collaborated with many renowned talents including Kit Hinrichs, Paula Scher, Richard Wilde, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser, to help create beautiful and award-winning productions and publications. He founded Designing Worlds, a sustainable design and architectural competition and the 9.11 Tribute Archive--the precursors to Spark.