+ Dutch Design Awards

Dutch Design Awards is an annual national design competition, organised by Dutch Design Award Foundation and the City of Eindhoven.

Edition 2009
Design Connection Brainport is, just like the 2008 edition, responsible for the plan and implementation of Dutch Design Awards edition 2009.

Active scouting and online entries
The strength of the new approach of the Dutch Design Awards lies in the fact that scouts are actively searching the market for the very best work and the very best designers. This approach has already proved successful last year. Professionals from the designers’ community have expressed their appreciation about the high quality of the finalists and the winners of 2008. This approach will therefore remain unchanged in 2009. As will the possibility for designers to submit their best work themselves. The main categories for participation are Communication, Product, and Spatial Design, and for the Rado Young Designer Award through the website www.dutchdesignawards.nl. Participation in the Dutch Design Awards is again free of charge. Check www.dutchdesignawards.nl for all relevant information on categories, criteria, and regulations.

Selection procedure
The selection committees select the finalists per subcategory from the total number of scouted works and online entries. The international jury ultimately decides who will be called onto stage to receive a Dutch Design Award on Saturday 17 October 2009.

Best Client Award
Special attention is also paid to the best Client Award, a prize awarded to the commissioning client who has proved his/her ability to integrate design strategically into the industrial processes and to manage the organisation process and the cooperation with bureaus and/or designers in such a way that this strategy is translated into concrete products and/or services. Bureaus and designers can nominate their best commissioning client for this Award. More information and the registration form are available on the website of the Dutch Design Awards.

Competition and festive Award Show
The competition is at the core of the Dutch Design Awards. Twenty Dutch Design Awards will be presented in the main categories Communication, Product, and Spatial. In addition to this, the jury will grant an ‘overall prize – The Golden Eye – to the most successful design of 2009. The competition also comprises a number of special awards: the Audi Design Award (the public award), the Rado Young Designer Award, the Best Client Award, and the Life Time Achievement Award. All winners will be announced during the festive Award Show on 17 October 2009. The designs of all finalists and winners will subsequently be put on display during the Dutch Design Week in a one-week exhibition in the Brainport Greenhouse on the Stadhuisplein in Eindhoven.

Winner Dutch Design Awards 2008
In 2008, Christien Meindertsma entered the stage three times. She won the Award for the best graphic design, the Rado Young Designer Award, and The Golden Eye’ - best of the best 2008. This admirable achievement made her the big winner with her book PIG 05049.

Dutch Design Awards is made possible by: the City of Eindhoven, BNO, Design Connection Brainport, Audi, Rado, Studio Dumbar, Lecturis printing company, NCDO, Brainport Development, Dutch Design Week, Eigen Huis & Interieur, Adformatie. Design Connection Brainport is responsible for the project management of the Dutch Design Awards.

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