The International Design Award invites students all over the world to create forward-looking, innovative and unusual solutions in designing and making furniture

Furniture

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...

 for tomorrow.

Objective

Fostering talents and demonstrating trends and visions of tomorrow through fresh thinking – this is the declared objective of the International Design Award that is staged every two years by Hettich and REHAU

Rehau

Rehau is a town in the district of Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. The first documented name of Rehau was "Resawe" in the year 1234. Rehau is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, 12 km southeast of Hof, and 12 km west of Aš...

as the companies holding it. The International Design Award also underscores the forward-looking approach to innovation management at both companies.

Competition assignment

The 2011 International Design Award is looking for interior designs as well as furniture concepts and systems that best meet the requirements of the next decade. The competition assignment relates to the three areas of living room and bedroom, kitchen as well as office workplaces. The adjudicators will be searching for innovative, multifunctional and creative designs that stand apart from classic applications. In terms of both design and technical intelligence, the solutions entered are to resolve the 'tug of war' in tomorrow's home and work environment.

Participants

The competition invites design students all over the world to create forward-looking, innovative and unusual solutions in furniture design and furniture-making.

Adjudicating panel

The adjudicating panel changes for each competition and is composed of international, well-known architects, designers and professors or university lecturers.

2009:

• Nitin Killawala, architect and interior designer from India
• Fernando Jaeger has exhibition rooms in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
• Kaarle Holmberg teaches interior design at Lahti University's Institute of Design and the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki
• Catherine and Bruno Lefebvre, owners of the C+B LEFEBVRE design agency, France
• Pierre Lo, interior designer, China

2007:

• Johnny Grey, design studios in San Francisco and Hampshire/UK
• Juliana Bertolini, lecturer in industrial design at Mackenzie University, São Paulo/Brazil
• Dr. Fenghu Wang, deacon and professor at the Institute for Material Sciences and Engineering at Northeast Forest University, Harbin/China,
• Maja Palczewska, industrial designer from Poznan, Poland
• Dr. Liat Preiss, firm of architects and designers in Tel-Aviv as well as guest professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel
• Michael Schmidt, design studio code.2.design, Stuttgart
• Renata Sias, advisor to prominent companies, guest professor in industrial design in Milan as well as specialist in office architecture
• Andreas Varotsos, Greek industrial designer who, among other works, designed the torch and altars for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens

Prize winners

Documentation on past prize winners is available at www.internationaldesignaward.com.

2009:

• 1st prize: "transfoarmchair" by Lukas Priecko, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
• 2nd prize: "ROOT" by Elena Veselkova, Samara State University of Architecture and Construction, Russian Federation
• 3rd prize: "Melted Star" by Chao Luan, Beijing Forestry University, China
• 4th prize: "Liquid Wall" by Stefan Ulrich/Yi-Cong Lu, Hildeheim/Holzminden/Göttingen HAWK University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• 5th prize: "PICCELLS" by Igor Lobanov, Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russian Federation

2007:
Furniture category

• 1st prize: "pink" by Natalia Jakobiec, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland
• 2nd prize: "post-it" by Barbora Markechova, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava (STU)
• 3rd prize: "snail" by Michal Kracik, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
• 4th prize: "Oma's Rache" ("Grandma's Revenge") by Ilja Oelschlägel, University of Art and Design, Halle, Germany
• 5th prize: "Living on the wall" by Clemens Burkert, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• 6th prize: "week & week end" by Benoît Barrier, Créasud École de Design (School of Design), Bordeaux, France
• 7th prize: "[ell] ...the portable table" by Christoph Eich¬berger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
• 8th prize: "LC-B2 Die Flatmate" ("LC-B2 The Flatmate")by Bettina Bach, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• 9th prize: "home" by Lubica Zemanova, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava (STU)
• 10th prize: "sandwich“ by Magdalena Čurdová, J.E. Purkyně University in Ústi nad Labem, Czech Republic

2007: Fittings category

• 1st prize: "clap flap" by Pavol Torma, Kosice University of Technology, Slovakia
• 2nd prize: "JUMI flexibel+griffstark" ("JUMI flexible+easy to grip") by Matthias Hiller and Henrike Gänß, University of Art and Design, Halle, Germany
• 3rd prize: "String handle" by Tomasz Skrobol, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
• 4th prize: "clip – clap" by Natalia Jurczak, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
• 5th prize: Jindrich Vodicka, Academy of Arts, Zlín, Czech Republic
• 6th prize: "Light brush" by Josef Zaruba, Tomas Bata University, Zlín, Czech Republic
• 7th prize: "Tripleflipper" by Piotr Hojda, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
• 8th prize: "Hamon" by Kikuchi Toshitaka, ICS College of Arts, Tokyo
• 9th prize: "Octopus" by Saori Kuroda, Tama Art University, Tokyo
• 10th prize: "Accessories" by Marika Mayanagi, Tama Art University, Tokyo

External links

• International Design Award
  
• Hettich
  
• Rehau