HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

An eventful year at the Design Center Baden-Württemberg is coming to an end. But don’t worry: you’ll still be able to enjoy many of the highlights from 2021 in the year ahead. The Focus Open 2021 exhibition and soon also our anniversary exhibition 30 Years of the Baden-Württemberg International Design Award can be viewed on our website in the form of digital tours. And as we at the Design Center like to say, “The end of one Focus is the beginning of the next”: the call for entries for Focus Open 2022 opens in mid-January. Another highlight gets underway on 2 February with a series of talks on art and design that we’re presenting in cooperation with the Landesmuseum Württemberg and the state’s arts and crafts association BdK (Bund der Kunsthandwerker Baden-Württemberg).

Enjoy the holidays, have a great start to the new year and look forward to more award-winning design highlights from the Design Center Baden-Württemberg in 2022!

With all good wishes for the festive season,
The Design Center team
 

FOCUS OPEN 2022 – CALL FOR ENTRIES

Your innovation, your award

Never before has professional design been so important and so much a matter of course as it is today. The Baden-Württemberg state award Focus Open provides an annual and transparent roundup of what’s state of the art when it comes to design, innovation and sustainability. And in 2022, Focus Open will once again be rewarding new products, services and concepts for their innovativeness and design quality.

With Focus Open, startups, newcomers and founders have the same chances of winning an award for their exciting projects as established design agencies and companies do!

Win Gold, Silver, a Special Mention – or Meta – plus feedback from an independent jury and a publicity boost in the form of our yearbook, exhibition and online presentation.

The call for entries opens in mid-January and closes on 18 March 2022.

Find out more here.
 

Three-part series of talks on art & design

As part of our DesignLese series, we invite you to join us for our event in cooperation with the Landesmuseum Württemberg and the state’s arts and crafts association BdK (Bund der Kunsthandwerker Baden-Württemberg). Please note: all talks will be held in German.

Weds. 2 February 2022 | 19:00
30 Years of the Baden-Württemberg International Design Award: Design Criteria in Flux
A dialogue with Stefan Lippert, Managing Director of UP Design Studio

Weds. 16 March 2022 | 19:00
Shaping Society with Design
A talk with Prof. Dr. Friedrich von Borries, architect and professor of design theory at Hamburg University of Fine Arts

Thurs. 31 March 2022 | 19:00
Attention: Artistic Crafts! 
A conversation with members of the Baden-Württemberg arts and crafts association BdK (Bund der Kunsthandwerker Baden-Württemberg) and Prof. Justus Theinert, professor of industrial design and theory of design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

Find out more here.