The Young Talent Award provides an opportunity for young designers to show off their best design projects. The competition is open to all design professions.

Young Talents can be awarded to students and new professionals with up to three years of experience in the categories Open Class and Design for All.

Jury guidelines for the Young Talents Award

Open Class category
The jury will attach importance to forward-looking, innovative and well prepared ideas/products/services/communication solutions focusing on the process and the user. The contribution must be beneficial to society in a unique manner or generate added value in some other manner.

This may take the form of a completely new style, a new area of use, a new solution to a familiar problem, the use of new technology, new materials, a new form of communication, a new target group or it may be a system that will have a new impact on our everyday lives. The product or the solution must also embrace the principles of environmentally friendly design.

Design for All category
By developing new products that include both disabled and non-disabled individuals of all ages, we will have come some way towards a more inclusive society.

The jury will attach importance to compliance with the seven principles of universal design. Participants shall demonstrate how their products are available to the largest possible user group, including both disabled and non-disabled individuals.

Design qualities are otherwise emphasised in the same way as in the Open Class category, The product/solution must take into account the principles of environmentally friendly design.