NEWS
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.
Form Follows Friendship
On Sunday, 19 October 2025, a networking breakfast in Eindhoven will bring together emerging graduates and professionals from Germany and the Netherlands. Under the title “Form follows Friendship”, the encounter highlights collaboration as a driving force in contemporary practice.
DARE TO DESIGN – SPaces of Care
The annual exhibition Dare to Design – Spaces of Care by the German Design Council showcases the most innovative work by design graduates from German universities. Despite their diversity, the projects are united by a collective consciousness and a determination to bring about change in response to urgent questions and ongoing crises. They all understand design as a collective practice and an act of care.
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
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The most renowned universities for design in Germany
GDG SOCIAL
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