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German Design Award

Newcomer Winner 2024: Architecture graduate Nicolas König

With the German Design Awards, the German Design Council Foundation honoured significant design trends as well as pioneering and innovative design achievements at the festive award show on 26 January 2024. Architecture graduate Nicolas König was also announced as the "Newcomer of the Year". This year, the Award Show took place for the first time at Kap Europa, Messe Frankfurt's congress centre, at the same time as the Ambiente consumer goods fair. To honour the winners, the new location offered…


German Design Award

German Design Awards 2024: The winners

Frankfurt am Main, 5 December 2023

The internationally renowned jury has chosen: A total of 65 "Gold" awards were presented in the "Excellent Product Design", "Excellent Communications Design" and "Excellent Architecture" disciplines at the German Design Awards 2024. All winners will be honoured at the Award Show on 26 January 2024 in Frankfurt am Main. The winner of the "German Design Award Newcomer" award will also be announced at this event. With the German Design Awards, the German Design…


German Design Award

German Design Award 2024: Newcomer finalists have been selected.

Frankfurt, 8 November 2023

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…