This exhibition is funded by the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Areas as part of the Hesse Innovation Promotion Programme under the measure ‘Promotion of cultural and creative industry facilities’.

NEWS

GUTE IDEE.

MAGAZIN is presenting the final theses of 11 German Design Graduates on a wide range of project themes in the MAGAZIN shop in Stuttgart.

German Design Graduates x Magazin

30 November: ‘CITY – Let us design how we want to live’

Walk 11 am – 1 pm, meeting point vacant Karstadt department store, near Konstabler Wache, Frankfurt
In cooperation with the project office of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026.

more information & registration

29 November: Forty degrees and more.

Guided tour through the exhibition & talk 3-5:30 pm, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt

more information & registration

The Magic Touch: Designing Togetherness

The exhibition “The Magic Touch” at Dutch Design Week 2024 presents works by graduates who, through interaction and tactile experiences, establish new relationships with designed objects, the world, and our shared environment.

The Magic Touch: Designing Togetherness

Meet The Winners

The projects of the four winners reflect the innovative power that design can have in social and economic change processes in a particularly impressive way.

Winners and Finalists

Annual exhibition 2024 – Dare to Design

Projects and concepts that radically rethink the economy and society: over 50 young designers present innovative positions, ideas and visions from product and industrial design.

More information about the exhibition at the Museum Angewandte Kunst

OUR Vision

German Design Graduates, sponsored by the German Design Council Foundation, is the only national initiative aimed at supporting young graduates from the fields of product and industrial design as well as presenting renowned German universities, art academies, and technical colleges.

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EXHIBITIONs

Awards & Partner Formats

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SCHOOLS

GDG EXHIBITIONS 23

Dare to Design @ MK&G Hamburg

Making Noise: Suggestions for a Complex World @ Dutch design week

Dates 2024

MArch

Application Universities

APRIL 15 – MAY 15

Call for Entries

JUNE 21

Jury Meeting

AUGUST 31

Opening GDG Museum Exhibition & Awards

@ Museum Angewandte Kunst
Frankfurt (Main)

31 AUGUST 2024 – 05 JANUARY 2025

GDG Museum Exhibition

@ Museum Angewandte Kunst
Frankfurt (Main)

19-27 October

GDG Festival Exhibition

@ Dutch Design Week
Eindhoven

Study Design!

The most renowned universities in Germany at a glance

University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design

TU Dresden

University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

Hochschule Pforzheim

Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg

University of Applied Sciences Berlin

Bauhaus Universität Weimar

HAWK Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen

weißensee academy of art and design berlin

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Berlin University of the Arts

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Saar

Kunsthochschule Kassel

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach

University of Applied Sciences Hannover

Folkwang University of the Arts Essen

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle

Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design Kiel

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