The international ein&zwanzig competition is aimed at you! Design
students and graduates! Talents and newcomers! Join us with innovative
products and product ideas in the interior design and lifestyle sector. Participation in the competition is free. Twenty-one products and
product ideas will be honoured with awards and exhibited during the
Tortona Design Week in Milan. As well as offering financial support for
transport and travel, the German Design Council will support and promote
the winners with extensive marketing measures.
Are you interested in participating in the competition in 2019? Then fill out our contact form for ein&zwanzig 2019. We will contact you as soon the next call for projects will be starting.
The German Design Council is an international centre of excellence for design. With the ein&zwanzig competition, it provides design students and graduates with a platform to present themselves effectively to the public. The high-calibre jury drawn from the fields of economics and design honours those who will be presenting their works in Milan to an international audience. Moreover, winners will benefit from a comprehensive service and support package, which the German Design Council provides to young, up-and-coming designers.
Since 2006, Mathias Hahn has headed a product design studio in London and is a founding member of the OKAYstudio collective. His design studio provides consulting services and implements a wide variety of projects in the fields of product, furniture and interior design for international clients.
The work of Raw Color reflects a sophisticated treatment of material by mixing the fields of photography and graphic design. In the Eindhoven based studio they are working on self initiated and commissioned projects. By trusting on their intuition Raw Color has created a design language that is verbally direct, energetic and recognizable.
Stefan Scholten (1972) and Carole Baijings (1973) combine minimal forms and balanced use of colour with traditional craft techniques and industrial production in a distinctive, almost un-Dutch design style.
Scholten & Baijings build a bridge between designer, artisan and manufacturer. Their close involvement in the production process results in design with both a perfect finish and a personal signature.
Konstantin Grcic (born in 1965) founded Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in Munich in 1991. Since then, he has been developing furniture, lighting and other products for several of the most renowned companies in the industry, including Cassina, ClassiCon, Flos, Flötotto, Laufen, Magis, Mattiazzi, Muji, Nespresso, Plank and Vitra.
Andrej Kupetz (*1968) has been General Manager of the German Design Council in Frankfurt/ Main since 1999. He studied industrial design, philosophy and product marketing in Berlin, London and Paris. In 1997, after various positions in design management and university liaison, Andrej Kupetz joined German Railways (Deutschen Bahn AG) where he was responsible for brand management in the DB Group and for the implementation of various corporate-design processes. Kupetz is member of the advisory board of the Design Management Institute Boston. Since 2011 Kupetz has been a member of the higher education council of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main. That same year the European Commission appointed him to the European Design Leadership Board. Kupetz is married and has three sons.
UBDO is an industrial design office based in Berlin, Germany. Established in 2009 by German designer Uli Budde, their work covers various fields of design ranging from furniture to accessories and lighting to tableware for clients including Marset (Spain), Oligo (Germany), Thonet (Germany), Vertigo Bird (Slovenia), A.E.Köchert Juweliere (Austria), Royal VKB (Netherlands) and De Vorm (Netherlands).
Philipp Mainzer, a native of Germany, studied product design and architecture in London. In 1995 he became a co-founder of e15, thus establishing a furniture brand based on a progressive yet consistent philosophy. Today, Philipp Mainzer is the creative director and managing director of his architectural firm PHILIPP MAINZER OFFICE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN and of e15.
Simon Legald (born 1986) is a Danish product designer located in Copenhagen. He graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. His work consists of both small- and large scale products. Simon’s designs are often created in a dialogue between craftsmanship and industry. He also likes to incorporate the techniques that are necessary for the structure of a product into the design by highlighting them visually.
He works as industrial designer, designing many bestsellers and commercially successful products and collaborated with companies, such as Alessi. He taught at Domus Academy in Milan, SPD Milan, the Università del Progetto in Reggio Emilia Design, at the University of Architecture in Florence and in Genova.
Barbara Friedrich studied Communication Studies, Literature and Philosophy. She has worked as a journalist for 30 years, SPECIALIZING in design, the home and architecture and has ben chief editor of A&W Architektur & Wohnen magazine since 1999. She has been a member of the President Committee of the German Design Council for many years. Since September 2016, Barbara Friedrich has been an author and freelance moderator and consultant in the fields of architecture and design.
Eva Marguerre, Marcel Besau
Studio Besau-Marguerre Germany
Eva Marguerre, Marcel Besau
Studio Besau-Marguerre, Germany
The duo, who studied product and communication design, founded their own interdisciplinary studio in Hamburg in May 2011. In addition to interior design, their repertoire includes visual communication, editorial design and styling.
Their ideas and products are based on a combination of unusual materials with striking colour concepts. Eva Marguerre (born in 1983) and Marcel Besau (born in 1980) have already enjoyed notable success in their still young career, with numerous nominations for international design prizes. Among other things, they were among the 5 Newcomer Finalists for the German Design Award of the German Design Council in 2014.
Stephen Burks is both a traveler and a designer. He believes in a pluralistic vision of design that is inclusive of all cultural perspectives. For his socially-conscious efforts, he has been called a design activist and his ongoing Man Made project bridges the gap between authentic developing world production, industrial manufacturing and contemporary design. Industrially, he has been commissioned by many of the world’s leading design-driven manufacturers to develop lifestyle collections that engage hand production as a strategy for innovation for mass-market and luxury brands worldwide.
