Claudia Banz
About Claudia Banz
Dr. Claudia Banz is an art and design scientist and since 2017 curator for design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Previously she was head of the Department of Art and Design at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. As a curator, she has realised numerous exhibitions, education formats and fairs at the interface of design, fashion, crafts and art, most recently Fast Fashion. The dark side of fashion, Food Revolution 5.0. Designing for tomorrow’s society and Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design. In the MKG Hamburg she was also responsible for the new presentation of the design collection. As leading curator of the Annual Fair for Arts and Crafts, she initiated an international exhibition platform for design universities and an award for young designers. For the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin she established the series Design Lab and Design Talks in order to open up the house as a platform and experimental space for multidisciplinary design approaches and a critical discourse on socially relevant design issues. She also researches and publishes on questions of social design (Social Design. Gestalten für die Transformation der Gesellschaft, transcript 2016) and decolonial collections.
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Claudia Banz is one of the members of the jury for the GDG exhibition 2019 at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and, together with Angelika Nollert and Tulga Beyerle, chooses the winner of the GDG Cultural Prize, an annual cash prize, that goes to a project that stands out for its attitude, innovation and impact.
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Angelika Nollert
About Dr. Angelika Nollert
Dr. Angelika Nollert is Director of Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum.
With more than 100,000 items from the areas of industrial design, graphic design, computer culture, mobility, and arts and crafts, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is one of the largest and most important museums of applied art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Not only considered the world’s oldest design museum, it is also a leader in the fields of industrial and product design.
From the very beginning, Die Neue Sammlung distinguished itself from the museums of applied arts or arts-&-crafts museums at that time – by consciously championing what was then modern and thus cutting-edge, contemporary design. To this very day, this clear agenda defines the objectives of the museum.
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Angelika Nollert is with Tulga Beyerle and Claudia Banz jury member of the GDG Culture Prize, an annual cash prize that goes to a project that is characterized by attitude, innovation and impact the most. In addition, as a director and curator of Die Neue Sammlung she is always looking out for talents that can be suitable for example for small presentations or who would fit in future thematic exhibitions.
Die Neue Sammlung München
Barer Str. 40
80333 München
Die Neue Sammlung München
Tulga Beyerle
About Tulga Beyerle
Tulga Beyerle is the director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
From 2014 to 2018 she was director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden State Art Collection and member of the managing directors ibid. In 2006 she was co-founder of the Vienna Design Week, together with Thomas Geisler and Lilli Hollein, and one of its directors until 2013. From the year 2000 until 2013 she was a freelance curator in design. After her Magistra degree in Industrial Design (1992), she taught design history and theory for seven years at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Tulga Beyerle (born 1964) is a respected design expert in Europe and currently i.a. member of the advisory board Architecture and Design of the Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture in Austria, member of the scientific advisory board of the Mudac in Lausanne and member of the program advisory council of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.
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Tulga Beyerle is with Angelika Nollert and Claudia Banz jury member of the GDG Culture Prize, an annual cash prize that goes to a project that is characterized by attitude, innovation and social impact. As designexpert and director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe it is of main interest – like for collection and exhibition policy – to discover young and promising talents.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz
20099 Hamburg
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Nicola Stattmann
About Nicola Stattmann
Nicola Stattmann is a designer and materials expert specialised in the development of ecological and technologically innovative products. Among the clients of her design office – founded in Frankfurt am Main in 2002 – are Adidas, BMW, Samsung, Beyerdynamic and Volkswagen. In 2011 she and her brother founded the company STATTMANN. Since then, the 120-year-old family joinery has also been producing serial furniture. At STATTMANN she is responsible for communication, product development and cooperation with a team of international designers. She has been teaching as a visiting professor at various universities since 2003. Currently she holds a deputy professorship at the HBK Saar. She writes articles for various magazines and blogs and has published three books.
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For three graduates who submitted their final thesis to the GDG-archive in 2019 (it doesn’t have to be the exhibitors) I would like to take 2 hours each to talk to them about their project.
This can be an input into material technology production as well as project implementation and marketing. I will individually choose the projects that I want to support from the archive.
About Gerhard Nüssler
Gerhard Nüssler (*1961) studied industrial design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences until 1991 after completing his apprenticeship as a model maker. He was employed by Neumeister Design, Munich, until he founded the design office ergon3 in 1999. During his career Nüssler won many international design awards. In 2003 he joined BSH Hausgeräte GmbH – initially as Head of Brand Design Constructa-Neff; since 2009 he has been at the forefront of Siemens brand design team. Here, too, he and his team are regular winners of prestigious awards. The undisputed highlight was the Gold Design Award 2010 of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Andreas Maegerlein
About Andreas Maegerlein
Andreas Maegerlein was trained as an engineer and industrial designer. After working for several design studios and the innovation department of Fischer fixing systems he entered BASF SE in 2008. First joining several functions within the business unit of technical engineered plastics. Since January 2014 Andreas Maegerlein is responsible for the BASF designfabrik® as teamleader.
BASF designfabrik® builds bridges between creative visions and the possibilities of plastic and supports customers at the early stages of the product development with materials, sample pieces and various services and also function as creative hub in the global BASF network.
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Within a 6-month engagement with a workplace in the newly-built BASF Creation Center the BASF designfabrik® supports the kick-start of the implementation of the concept into reality. This includes material consultation, calculation and (re)design of the components, construction and selection of manufacturers, as well as support in manufacturing and marketing.
Magazin
About Magazin
In the MAGAZIN stores in Stuttgart, Munich and Bonn as well as at magazin.com, MAGAZIN offers a selected range of furnishing products for indoors, outdoors and on the move. MAGAZIN not only acts as a dealer, but also as a manufacturer of its own product line. With these so-called M-products, MAGAZIN succeeds in realizing its own ideas and opening up unmistakable products to its customers. With extensive knowledge of the market and intensive cooperation with designers and mostly regional manufacturers, MAGAZIN creates a range of special products for furnishing.
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As part of the GDG, MAGAZIN offers a selected designer the opportunity of a 3-month residency at the Berlin product development office in the B-Part. MAGAZIN offers an intensive insight into the market maturity of an M product from the selection to the various development steps to the market launch. Through this participation in the team, we impart knowledge of material and its possible applications, insight into the procedural phases of product development from the idea sketch to the prototype as well as knowledge of implementation to market maturity.
Ambiente
About Ambiente
Ambiente is the leading international trade fair and the world’s No. 1 for tableware, kitchenware, household goods, furnishing and decoration accessories, home concepts, gift articles, jewellery and fashion accessories. It is “The Show” for an entire sector. Its unrivalled product range in breadth and depth makes it unique in the world. At Ambiente 2019, 4,460 exhibitors from 92 countries presented their product classics and innovations to around 136,000 trade visitors from 167 countries for five days. At the same time, the most important global consumer-goods fair offers a large number of industry events, programmes for up-and-coming professionals, trend presentations and award ceremonies and is part of Messe Frankfurt’s event portfolio.
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Ambiente supports the German Design Graduates 2019 with a financial donation.
In addition, at least two participants in the German Design Graduates Show will be given the opportunity to take part in Ambiente’s Talents programme. This includes free exhibition space in one of the two Talents areas at the fair. These are located in the immediate vicinity of well-known exhibitors from the consumer goods sector.
IMM
About IMM
The imm cologne is both a business platform and a hot spot for trendsetters. Right at the beginning of each year, the international furnishing fair in Cologne shows the most fascinating interior moments from basic to high-end. No other fair presents the international world of furnishing in such a comprehensive, compact and structured way. In eleven halls, interior designers and architects, retailers and wholesalers, tradespeople, property developers, purchasing associations or consumers interested in design will find the whole range of living styles and themes from the design-oriented Pure segment (Pure Atmospheres, Pure Editions, Pure Architects, Pure Platforms, Pure Talents) to the restructured Home segment with the theme worlds Home Sleep, Home Scenes and Home Settings. In 2019, around 150,000 visitors from 145 countries visited the double imm cologne/LivingKitchen fair, which was attended by 1,158 exhibitors (78% international).
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The international furniture and interiors fair imm cologne has a long history of promoting
young designers with various presentation formats and platforms, including the Pure Talents
Contest, a newcomer competition that was initiated in 2004 and is held in high standing all
over the world. For the first time, the imm cologne 2020 will also be awarding three
greencards to select participants of the German Design Graduates Show 2019, who will be
able to present their work in the young design context of the Pure Studios in Hall 2.1.
About German Design Council and ein&zwanzig
The German Design Council considers promoting young talent as one of its core tasks. It facilitates the introduction of young design talents into the professional world and increases their visibility with the international young talent competition ein&zwanzig and the endowed newcomer award of the German Design Award. The finalists of both competitions are connected with the German Design Council‘s network and have the opportunity to make relevant contacts.
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The German Design Council supports the German Design Graduates with a financial contribution over a period of 3 years and awards green cards to 3 GDG‘s for the shortlist of the annual ein&zwanzig exhibitors in Milan. Hereby, the German Design Council aims to increase the visibility of graduates of German design schools and give them a chance to present themselves.
Form
About Stephan Ott
Stephan Ott has been Editor-in-Chief of Form Magazine since 2012. He was previously Head of Communications at the German Design Council.
Formed in 1957 by Jupp Ernst, Willem Sandberg, Curt Schweicher and Wilhelm Wagenfeld as “International Review”, Form has established itself as one of the world’s leading magazines in the fields of product, industry and communication design for more than 60 years. With news, focus topics and analyzes, the form sets topics, provides orientation and initiates the design discourse.
The magazine sees itself as a forum for subject-specific content across all media and formats. Apart from print and online publications, fairs, seminars, lectures, workshops and lectures are also part of the portfolio.
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Stephan Ott supports German Design Graduates as jury member from the ambassador group of design press projects for the German Design Graduates Show. Form Magazine supports German Design Graduates with publications on events and projects.
Dear Magazin
About DEAR and May-Britt Frank-Grosse
May-Britt Frank-Grosse (Dipl-Ing Architecture) is a journalist and consultant in the fields of architecture and design. For six years she worked as editor-in-chief at Designlines, an online magazine for interior architecture and design. Since 2012 she wrote for various magazines, worked as a PR consultant for architectural firms and international companies and as editor of a business magazine. Since February 2019 she is editor-in-chief of DEAR magazine for design and interior architecture based in Berlin. DEAR is part of BauNetz, the largest German-language online platform for architecture.
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The DEAR magazine reports daily on the current events in design and interior architecture at www.dear-magazin.de.
As a specialist medium, we are media partner and happy to support the initiative German Design Graduates 2019, with which aims to create public and specialist attention for graduates at German design colleges with an archive and an exhibition.
In addition, DEAR will award a prize for the extraordinary media presentation of a project. The prize is a detailed feature in DEAR Magazine.
German Design Council
About German Design Council
The German Design Council considers promoting young talent as one of its core tasks. It facilitates the introduction of young design talents into the professional world and increases their visibility with the international young talent competition ein&zwanzig and the endowed newcomer award of the German Design Award. The finalists of both competitions are connected with the German Design Council‘s network and have the opportunity to make relevant contacts.
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The German Design Council supports the German Design Graduates with a financial contribution over a period of 3 years and awards green cards to 3 GDG‘s for the shortlist of the annual ein&zwanzig exhibitors in Milan. Hereby, the German Design Council aims to increase the visibility of graduates of German design schools and give them a chance to present themselves.
Nils Holger Moormann
About Nils Holger Moormann
Nils Holger Moormann positions himself somewhere between conventions and makes himself comfortable amidst his furniture which are all a bit like himself – ascetic, thoughtful, with a small, almost imperceptible wink. As an autodidact and free spirit, Nils Holger Moormann has, developed furniture with a reduced form language and precise solutions to detail with a number of mostly young, unknown designers, since 1982.
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Nils Holger Moormann supports German Design Graduates financially and is Jury member for the Design praxis ambassadors in order to select projects for the German Design Graduates Show
Swiss Krono
About Swiss Krono
SWISS KRONO TEX GmbH & Co. KG produces high-quality, ecological, sustainable and healthy wood-based materials on the basis of debarked native pine and spruce woods. The company understands environmental protection to mean the safety and health of their employees as well as the “health” of nature.
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Swiss Krono supports the German Design Graduates Initiative as material sponsor with panel materials for the realisation of the exhibition furniture.