We are looking for courageous designs from all over the world that examine the topic in an intense and creative manner – be it product-oriented or process-oriented. Travelling in all its different forms – as a holiday, business trip or pilgrimage, a scientific excursion or even a virtual journey – can evoke a host of approaches and questions. This can result in inventing new services, suggesting innovative action or user strategies but also in designing useful products for travelling or visualising different scenarios.

„As an emotional event, travelling nourishes our senses. It can further self-awareness or make us reflect upon other worlds. Travelling combines impulse and action, motion and emotion, impression and expression – and it can raise your blood pressure. Travelling is more than mechanically supported movement by means of car, train, plane, ship, or other. In the first place, it means movement of the self, desire and generally change.
Every journey is different and has its own history but at the same time, they are all based on the same transition ritual: departure – passage/ being on the road – arrival." Paolo Bianchi

Designpreis Halle 2010 carries prize money of altogether 5,000 Euro. At their discretion, the board of judges can split the sum into a maximum of three prizes. In addition, one or more special mentions can be awarded by the judges. Additional works are selected for the final exhibition and the catalogue. The award ceremony and the exhibition opening will take place on June 19, 2010. 

Designers who have not completed their 40th year on the day of the entry deadline are admitted to the competition. Members of the board of judges are excluded from participation.

All works must be submitted between January 18, 2010 and February 2, 2010.

The last possible date of arrival of the entries at the below address is February 2, 2010.

Prof. Volker Albus
Thomas Edelmann
Prof. Dr. Peter Heimann
Prof. Axel Kufus
Nils Holger Moormann
Prof. Axel Müller-Schöll
Prof. Peter Raacke
Prof. Dr. Annette Tietenberg
Prof. Vincenz Warnke

You can only submit a design that has been produced as single or as team work. It can either be :

a maximum of three DIN A 2 Posters mounted on card, showing products, designs or concepts (design drawings, models, animation or prototypes)

or, in the case of video formats for DVD works of max. three minutes length: DV PAL DIVX / MPEG 4 codec and Quicktime

or, in the case of interactive presentations: Flash

In addition, there must be an envelope with the name of the participant, containing a short CV and a description of the work submitted (max. 1500 characters on an A4 sheet) in German or English language.
The submission will only be accepted if a signed copy of the entry form containing all entry rules is enclosed. This form can be downloaded from here.
The conditions for those works chosen for the final exhibition will be determined individually.

Designpreis Halle (Saale) e. V.
c/o IHK Halle-Dessau
Franckestraße 5
06110 Halle (Saale) Germany