"one&twenty - world's best design talents": The German Design Council Foundation honors 21 outstanding achievements in the field of product design with its competition for students and graduates. From now on, anyone interested worldwide can submit their work. The award winners will be presented in an exhibition during Milan Design Week in April 2024.

The jury of the German Design Award 2024 has selected the five finalists for the "Newcomer" award: Leonie Burkhardt, Justus Hilfenhaus, Nicolas König, studio formagora (Finn Blankenberg, Esra Heuermann, Nick Potter) and Sebastian Winter impressed the jury with their portfolios from the disciplines of textile design, product design, architecture, participatory design, and digital design. With innovative solutions for current social and ecological issues and forward-looking ideas, projects, and…

For the first time the German Design Graduates by the German Design Council is present at the famous Dutch Design Week (DDW) in Eindhoven – one of the biggest design events in Europe with more than 350,000 visitors. The international renowned curators Amelie Klein and Jana Scholze bring together 25 projects by recent graduates from various German Design schools in the exhibition “Making Noise. Suggestions for a Complex World”.

With its international Model Young Package competition, Model Group promotes young talents and thus ensures innovation for the packaging industry. The winners of the international competition were honoured in Prague on 4 October 2023. For the first time in the event's history, there was also a design challenge, where the best designers created a tailored solution based on a brief from Clock Craft Brewery in the Czech Republic.

Where Will Your Innovation Take Us? The German Innovation Award presented by the German Design Council honours products, projects and pioneering achievements that sustainably improve life through innovation and progress. From Green Mobility, Digital Healthcare and New Work to exceptional engineering achievements in all fields - every innovation counts. Because positive changes that influence and enrich the lives of a wide variety of target groups have always come about through innovation. The…

The Dare to Design exhibition of the German Design Graduates 2023 initiative of the German Design Council brings together the most visionary projects of German art and design academies at the Museum Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G). A jury selected four award-winning projects from the 47 positions presented in the exhibition, which were announced at the show opening on 31 August 2023.