Welcome to the first Faces of Design TALENT Awards!

After the great international success of the first Faces of Design Awards, the additional TALENT format has been created to support young design talent in particular - a competition to showcase design talent straight from university.

Just like the Faces of Design Awards, the Faces of Design TALENT Awards are based on your existing projects, and culminate in a presentation of the 25 most promising design talents. Their profiles will be distributed to over 1.000 key decision makers at more than 300 companies, including firms such as vitra, IKEA, the Richemont Group (including prestigious brands such as Montblanc, Cartier and Chloé), designers’ studios such as the Campanas’ and Bouroullecs’, and the design press.

In the first round of the Faces of Design TALENT Awards, you have the opportunity to present the best elements of your portfolio to the judges in a safe online environment, followed by a second round with our high-profile panel.

The winners of the Faces of Design TALENT Awards will then have their profiles presented to opinion leaders and key decision makers in design worldwide. In addition, the top three candidates will be portrayed in a special feature in the globally distributed LOFT The Nordic BOOKazine.

If you are a member of the press, or a representant of a manufacturer, gallery or design association, and you would like to receive a copy of the winners' publication, please simply drop us a note at awards@facesofdesign.com!

Eligibility

The Faces of Design Awards are open to individual design students and student groups, as well as newly founded design studios. However you are only eligible for participation if you did not graduate before 2009.

The design competition is international in nature, and open to representatives of any design discipline. There is no age restricition.

The Panel

Submissions to the design competition are judged by an international panel of renowned judges including:

   1. Pio Barone Lumaga, Editor-in-Chief of LOFT The Nordic BOOKazine

   2. Claudia Caviezel, winner of the first Faces of Design Awards 2010 (top three candidate)

   3. Gala Fernandez, Head of the MA Programme 'European Design Labs' of the IED Madrid

   4. Maria Cristina Didero, Design Journalist, Critic and Curator

   5. Alain Lardet, Founder of the Designer's Days, Paris

   6. Ronen Kadushin, Designer and Lecturer at the UdK Berlin

Deadlines:

Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2010

Shortlisted candidates will receive the invitation to participate in Round 2 of the competition on July 23rd, and need to submit their entries for Round 2 by August 15th, 2010. Winners will be informed in the week commencing August 30th, 2009, and the publication date of the winners’ profiles is scheduled for September 2010.

Entry Fee

Entry fees are:

   • Early bird participants(until June 24th): €20

   • Standard participants(after June 24th): €40

Please also note that a limited number of special grants is available to promising designers from developing regions of the world, and to those otherwise unable to afford participation in the design competition. Please click here for further information about how to apply for a grant.