In March 2008 Braun GmbH launched the 17th edition of the BraunPrize with the motto: "Envision conscious design!"

This internationally recognised design competition is open to young industrial designers who are still studying or who have graduated within the last two years.

Call for entries: now closed

Participants are free to choose any subject for their product concepts. The BraunPrize has always been entirely independent of the Braun product range and is not restricted to products from the consumer goods sector.

Criteria

The product concepts submitted should represent real innovations in design and technology, focusing on the essential topics of our time. The conceptual designs should be developed with users' needs in mind showing applications which support them in their everyday lives - in the home, at work or school, during sports and leisure activities or in the context of health and personal care.

Online submissions

Through entering your dates in the online entry form you will get access to your personal BraunPrize online-account. Via online-upload on the BraunPrize server all documents can be submitted, administrated and seen directly. For more information on submission, visit the event website.

Jury

Traditionally the jury of the BraunPrize is small and consists of 5 members.

• Peter Schneider: Director Corporate Design at Braun and chairman of the BraunPrize jury
• Anna Kirah: Design Antropologist, Norway
• Kazuo Tanaka: President of GK Design Group Inc. Tokyo, Japan
• Florian Seiffert: Professor for Product Design, University of Applied Sciences Mainz and first BraunPrize Winner 1968
• Rainer Silbernagel: Director Engineering and Quality Institute Kronberg, Kronberg Technical Center

Find out more about the jury.

Awards

The total prize money amounts to EUR 36,000. The winner of the BraunPrize will receive EUR 12,000 in prize money and a (paid) six-month internship in the Design Department at Braun. The other finalists will each receive a prize of EUR 5,000. The remaining prize money will be distributed in the form of special recognition awards at the discretion of the jury.

Forum and Award ceremony

The design competition concludes with the BraunPrize Event which consists of a Workshop, the BraunPrize Forum and the Award Ceremony. The Workshop provides an opportunity for the finalists to prepare their presentations. The BraunPrize Forum is part of the judging process; it is here that the overall winner is elected.

Everyone who is interested in the BraunPrize Competition and its conclusion is invited to the subsequent Award Ceremony which is followed by the opening of the BraunPrize Exhibition.

Complete details on the Braunprize 2009 are available on the official event website.

For more information, please contact:

Gerlinde Kress
BraunPreis Project Managaer
t: +49 6173 30 2266
f: +49 6173 30 1534
e:
w: www.braunpreis.de

About BraunPrize

When it was established in 1968, the BraunPrize was Germany's first international competition to promote the work of young designers. Braun's commitment to this cause has been highly regarded by the design world and the design-aware public ever since.

In sponsoring the BraunPrize, Braun seeks to highlight the importance of industrial design and innovative products and to promote ideas for consumer items which help people in all aspects of their daily lives.

The BraunPrize seeks to promote the work of young designers from all over the world, to recognise the work of design schools and to help develop a greater appreciation of the factors and criteria which make for good product design.

Furthermore, it serves to make the ingenuity and creativity of young designers accessible to the public and to provide a link between young designers and industry or potential clients.