German Design Council

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German Design Council

logo
legal form Foundation, endowment
founding 1953
Seat Frankfurt am Main
management Andrej Kupetz (CEO)
Lutz Dietzold (CEO)
Branch design
Website www.german-design-council.de

The Design Council ( english German Design Council ) is a legal entity in the legal form of a charitable foundation and works as an advocacy for design-oriented companies. It has more than 300 members from the fields of business, design, associations and institutions.

history

The reason for the foundation was the strong criticism of the presentation of German products from the post-war period at the New York export fair in 1949: According to a motion by the SPD parliamentary group, the German Bundestag decided to set up an independent council for form development . This council was founded in 1953 in the legal form of a foundation with the express mandate to support the German economy in design as an economic and cultural factor. Since then, the Council has performed this task in the organization of exhibitions, competitions, conferences, publications and strategic consultations.

As the founding mandate of the German Bundestag put it, the donors' assembly forms a platform for communication between all those involved in the design process. The German design broker and consultant Mia Seeger is appointed managing director . One of the first activities of the council was the conception of the German exhibition contribution to the tenth Milan Triennale, whose architect was Egon Eiermann . In 1957, the council organized its own design congress for the first time under the motto “Create and distribute good forms”. In the years that followed, design congresses and exhibitions abroad were supported and our own events were held. The German Design Council participated in the selection of the objects that were shown in the German Pavilion (architecture: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf ) at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels. In 1962, the council designed its own touring exhibition for the first time under the name “Design in Germany”, in which various Swedish museums took part.

The logo was designed by the graphic designer Anton Stankowski (1906–1998).

From 1972, in cooperation with the German Industry and Trade Day, the Design Report press service was published , which informs interested journalists about current developments and trends in design. The Design Report has been published as a magazine by the German Design Council since 1987, initially from MacUp Verlag Hamburg from 1993 , and most recently from Konradin Verlag , Leinfelden. In the course of the separation of publisher and publisher, the publisher switched off the online archive of the magazine without replacement. The design report was discontinued with issue 2/2019 in June of that year. Since summer 2019, the German Design Council has been providing information on news from the fields of design, brands and innovation on the ndion website.

Founding mandate

The foundation is committed to a design concept that is suitable for creating both cultural and economic values. As the founding mandate of the German Bundestag put it, the donors' assembly forms a platform for communication between all those involved in the design process. With its interdisciplinary orientation, it is also a unique forum for cross-sector exchange on the development of design and guarantees the transfer of knowledge between the German Design Council and its target groups. Today the institution is one of the world's leading competence centers for communication and knowledge transfer in the field of design. With design prizes, exhibitions, conferences, consulting services, research, promotion of young talent and publications, it opens up new horizons for representatives of the economy and the design disciplines.

Founding members

Governing bodies

Bureau

The founders' meeting selects the Presidium of the German Design Council from among its members, which includes twelve people and representatives of the public donors. As the highest body of the foundation, the Presidium makes all strategic decisions for the orientation and work of the German Design Council. The presidium consists of:

Surname employment Function in the presidium
Peter Pfeiffer Chairman, Pfeiffer design group GmbH, Advisory Board Links of Isar GmbH president
Michael Peters Managing Director Peters' Projects GmbH Vice President
Robert Klanten Managing Director and Creative Director, Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Treasurer
Roland Heiler Managing Director Porsche Design GmbH
Annemarie Jaeggi Director of the Bauhaus Archive eV / Museum for Design
Mike Richter Co-Founder iconmobile group / Department of Design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Leo Luebke Managing partner of COR Sitzmöbel Helmut Lübke GmbH & Co. KG.
Caroline Seifert Chief Brand & Design Officer (JIO) Member of the Board, Reliance Industries Ltd.
Philipp Mainzer Managing partner of e15 Design- und Distributions GmbH
Nils Holger Moormann Managing Director, Nils Holger Moormann GmbH
Gorden Wagener Head of Design at Daimler AG
Erik Spiekermann Edenspiekermann_ Berlin

Managing directors

Andrej Kupetz (* 1968) has been the general manager since 1999 and Lutz Dietzold (* 1966) has been the manager since 2002.

President

Brand and design academy

Congresses, conferences and seminars make up the design academy. The content is designed with speakers from business and research, with the focus on the theory and practice of brand and design strategy. At the German Brand and Design Congress (DMDK), various design areas of brand management processes are discussed. The conference series Iconic Conferences, formerly Architecture for Brands, deals with the presentation of three-dimensional brand worlds.

Awards ceremonies

German Design Award

The German Design Award honors innovative products and projects, their manufacturers and designers in the German and international design industry. Only entries that have been nominated can take part in the competition. Evaluation criteria for nominations are, for example: overall concept, sustainability, aesthetics, durability and functionality.

In contrast to the usual award ceremonies, nominees and winners do not receive any prize money but have to make a payment. The “participation fees” (as of 2018) amount to 230 euros plus an organization fee of at least 70 euros for each individual contribution. If a nominated entry is drawn as a winner, additional costs from 2,080 euros will be charged for it. In 2016, the nomination fee was 449 euros and winners had to pay up to 4,450 euros.

The event is not financed by sponsors, but by the awardees, which has been viewed critically for years. However, the Newcomer award of the German Design Award 2018 is associated with prize money of 15,000 euros. The large number of award winners is also criticized. In 2018 the prize was presented to over 1000 winners.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the German Design Council. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ On behalf of good taste. Tim Kanning, June 6, 2013, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Imprint designreport.de. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ design report discontinued. In: ndion.de. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ German Design Award. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ German Design Award 2015 - Terms and Conditions. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 16, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / gallery.designpreis.de
  7. ↑ Competitions 2018: German Design Award. April 24, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Open letter to the general manager of the German Design Council. Daniel Hyngar, February 10, 2016, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ criticism of the design award at fontblog.de. February 8, 2008, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Newcomer Prize of the German Design Award 2018: The finalists have been chosen. german-design-council.de, October 16, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Quo vadis, Design Awards in Germany? March 7, 2016, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Award winner 2018. Accessed on July 16, 2018 .