[d³]contest – The young designers competition

Call for entries – the imm cologne’s young designers competition is now open! During the forthcoming imm cologne 2009 the 6th edition of [d³]contest will be on show in Cologne during January 19th to 25th 2009. The competition is open to students and graduates (graduation exams passed not longer than three years ago) from the fields of product design, industrial design or interior architecture and allows all interior products like furniture, lighting, textiles, carpets or wallpapers at the status of prototypes at the time of the fair or in preparation for serial production. In the 2008 competition 31 products have been chosen from 534 entries of which the best three products have been awarded by an internationally well-known jury of interior experts with the interior innovation award of imm cologne and have been rewarded with price money of 1000€, 200€ and 3000€. All entries have to be submitted by September 15th 2008 (date of postmark) to the German Design Council which is organising the competition on behalf of imm cologne. For further information and download of the application documents see http://www.imm-cologne.com/d3_talents/en/ contact Mrs. Natalie Köhler (German Design Council) Koehler@german-design-council.de or Mr. Rüdiger Sprave (imm cologne) r.sprave@koelnmesse.de