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Closing date: January 25th 2026
The GDG Year 2025
This year, we received around 400 submissions in the fields of product and industrial design, communication and digital design, and fashion and textile design from 25 participating universities.
NExt, Now, Then
The German Design Graduates initiative is showcasing final projects from German design colleges at Dutch Design Week 2025. The exhibition ‘Next, Now, Then’, curated and designed by Raw Color, asks how young talents interpret the past, perceive the present and design the future. Time is understood not only as a sequence of events, but as a material with which design works.
ProgrammE
German Design Graduates, funded by the German Design Council Foundation, is the only nationwide initiative with the purpose of promoting young graduates in product and industrial design, textile and fashion design, communication and digital design as well as the presentation of renowned German universities, art colleges and universities of applied sciences.
Platform
Museum EXhibition
Festival Exhibition
Trainings
Cooperations
German Design Award – Newcomer
About German Design GRaduates
Timeline
March 3 – April 3
Registration
Schools
APRIL 14 – MAY 12
Call for Entries
German Design Graduates
JUNE 10 – AUGUST 15
Submissions
German Design Award 2026 – Newcomer
AUGUST
Publication
Graduates Platform
September 04
– OCtober 12
Museum Exhibition
Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Köln
OCTOBER 18 – 26
Festival Exhibition
Dutch Design Week
Eindhoven
NOVEMBER – December
Trainings
Workshops on professionalization
February 2026
German Design Award – Newcomer
Award Ceremony
Design studieren!
The most renowned universities for design in Germany
GDG SOCIAL
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