Design award of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany (DBD) - often called the German Design Prize or Federal Design Prize - was the highest officially awarded award for outstanding design in Germany from 2002 to 2014 . It was the successor to the Gute Form design award from 1969 to 2001.
The DBD was awarded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology . The award ceremony took place annually in February.
Modalities, history and criticism
Participants were nominated for this by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology or the respective responsible state ministries - and only if they had previously won another national or international design award. That is why the award was also called "the price of prizes". You couldn't apply for the prize yourself.
An independent and expert jury made up of ten members decided on the award . It was composed of representatives from industry, universities, design and the media. She was appointed by the Federal Minister for Economics and Technology for a period of four years.
Like many other design awards, this one did not bring any prize money for the participants ; on the contrary, it was chargeable. The award was therefore criticized by the professional public from 2006 onwards, triggered by an open letter from the nominated designer Juli Gudehus .
The award was organized by the German Design Council up until 2011 and was first entrusted to a young, small private company, DMY Berlin GmbH & Co. KG, as part of a new tender in 2012. Since then, the German Design Council has been awarding its own design prize, which was briefly called the “Design Prize Germany” and then renamed the German Design Award .
With the transfer of the organization of the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany to the organizer DMY Berlin, the payment modalities changed: companies or designers paid a participation fee as before; but they no longer had to pay a “winner fee”. The youngsters had to pay a participation fee of € 350 per entry, but the young talent award has been endowed with € 8,000 since 2012.
The prize has not been advertised again since the last organizer went bankrupt in 2014.
Award winners
- 2014 (selection)
- Karl Clauss Dietel for his life's work
- Yang Liu for the wayfinding system Albertinum Dresden (Gold)
- Graft (silver)
- oup kommunikation for "Diagrimme - 12 Children's and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm as Infographics" (silver)
- 2013 (selection)
- Uwe Loesch for his life's work
- 2012 (gold selection)
- Wolfgang Joop for his life's work
- Johannes Bergerhausen and Siri Poarangan (gold) for the publication “decodeunicode - The characters of the world”, Schmidt, Mainz
- The Electric Hotel (Gold)
- Frackenpohl Poulheim, Heimplanet (gold): The Cave
- 2011 (selection)
- Erik Spiekermann for his life's work.
- Sebastian Herkner as the best newcomer .
- Runge GmbH & Co. KG (silver) for Theatrum, a new type of bench for young people for the public outdoor area (without classic seating) by the Runge Design Team.
- 2010 (selection)
- Bulthaup (gold) for bulthaup b2 kitchen
- Joachim Sauter (Gold) for the kinetic sculpture of the BMW Group
- Nils Frederking (silver) for the F2 folding table, produced by Ligne Roset
- Honorary award 2010 for Ingo Maurer as a «designer personality»
- For the first time, a prize for young designers was awarded in 2010. The winner is the Berlin textile designer Elisa Strozyk .
- Festo for the Air Jelly bionics project
- 2009 (selection)
- IDEO (Gold) for the electricity saving meter from Yello Strom .
- IDEO (silver) for the MY_WAY printer from Olivetti .
- 2009 Honorary Prize for Richard Sapper as a «designer personality»
- 2008 (selection)
- BMW Group for BMW G650 Xcountry by BMW Group Design
- Daimler Immobilien GmbH for the Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart by hg merz architects and museum designers stuttgart berlin
- ERCO Leuchten GmbH for the Grasshopper by factory design / in-house: Alois Dworschak & Henk Kosche
- Mammut Sports Group AG for the “Bionic” climbing carabiner from Nose Design, Christian Harbeke
- Robert Bosch Hausgeräte GmbH for HBN 77 P750 from factory design / in-house: Roland Vetter
- WMF AG for Nomos by Metz & Kindler product design
- Honorary award 2008 for Dr. Manfred Lamy as a "designer personality"
- 2007 (selection)
- Loewe AG for the Individual 32 LCD television, Phoenix Design
- The German track for the new typeface DB Type , by Erik Spiekermann and Christian Schwartz was designed.
- 2006 (selection)
- Porsche 911 Carrera C2 / C2S
- Rowenta M Edition
- Impact drill D 25203K / D 25304K from Black & Decker GmbH
- 2002
- 1985/86
- Antoinette de Boer for the design of the "Akaba" fabric
- 1977
- Rosenthal AG for the “Fuga” drinking glass series; Design: Elsa Fischer-Treyden
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of current jurors ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed February 11, 2009
- ↑ Article on the price in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (July 6, 2006), last accessed on February 11, 2009
- ↑ Gudehu's open letter
- ↑ New start for Design Prize Germany (dasauge aktuell)
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur - Thema - My favorite letter is the small a
- ↑ Design Award 2010: The Winners ( Memento from February 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Design Award 2010: Young Talent Award ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Design Prize 2009: The Winners ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Design Prize 2008: The Winners ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Metz & Kindeler homepage
- ↑ Article on the honorary award in the font blog
- ↑ " https://digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de/hs/content/pageview/3158309?query=de%20boer
