German Design Award Winners

The flat adjustable tension levers were awarded the Winner-Award and the cabinet "U" handles the Special-Award.

The premier prize awarded by the German Design Council
The German Design Awards are the international premier prize awarded by the German Design Council. Its goal: to discover, present, and honour unique trends in design. Every year, high-calibre entries in the fields of product and communication design are honoured, each of which blazes new trails in the international design landscape. The German Design Awards, launched in 2012, are among the most prestigious design competitions worldwide and have an excellent reputation far beyond specialist circles.

Nomination
The competition sets the highest standards for selecting the prize winners: thanks to the unique nomination process, only those products and communication design projects that demonstrably exemplify outstanding design quality are eligible to participate.

Winner-Award
An appropriate number of design products will be awarded »Winner« prizes in each category. These will be selected by a separate jury of experts for each category of the German Design Awards.

Special-Award
»Special Mention« awards are given to works with designs that feature particularly successful partial aspects or solutions – these prizes honour the commitment of companies and designers.