FH MAINZ VS. RCA LONDON

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THE PITCH
Each month two selected students from the best schools around the world compete against each other by presenting their projects in a video clip on ARTE CREATIVE. The audience can vote which of the two projects is more creative, interesting and/or fun.

We are proud you present the first edition of THE PITCH!:
SHING TAT CHUNG (ROYAL COLLEGE OF ARTS) VS. ALICA JÖRG (FH MAINZ)

Now it is up to you to decide! Visit THE PITCH! WEBSITE, find out more about these amazing projects and cast your vote!

THE PITCH! is a cooperation project between :output and arte creative – the online platform of Europes TV channel arte.

 

SUPERSTITIOUS FUND BY SHING TAT CHUNG – RCA LONDONblog2

The ‘Superstitious Fund’ is an experiment. An algorithm is automatically buying and selling shares on the stock exchange. The investment decisions are based on moon cycles and numbers connected to superstitious beliefs and myths. The machine is developing its own logic and superstitions which influence its behaviour. For example the machine is afraid of full moon and the number 13.

Professor: Noam Toran

VOTE FOR SUPERSTITIOUS FUND ON THE PITCH! WEBSITE

Shing Tat Chung (1986) works and lives in London. After studying fine arts at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Frankfurt HfbK Staedelschule he graduated from the Royal College of Art London with a Master in Design Interactions. Shings work has been presented in the Design Museum London, V2 Institute for Unstable Media Rotterdam, Seattle Design Expo, Folkestone Triennial, Beijing Biennale National Museum of China and at the Milan Salone. He has been nominated for the “Design of the Year Award” at the Design Museum and the “Deutsche Bank Award” and received a recognition at the “Vida 14.0 Artificial Life International Awards” as well as an award for the “Best Conceptual Design” at the ‘Microsoft-Design Expo’.


OBSESSIV BY ALICA JÖRG – FH MAINZ blog3

‘Obsessiv’ is a collection of 7 character sketches of people who live out their obsessions in every day life. The work investigates the boarder between the normal and the unnormal. The final thesis project is conceptualized as a travelling exhibition made of multimedia installations adressing the question how obesessions emerge.

Professor: Johannes Bergerhausen

VOTE HERE FOR OBSESSIV ON THE PITCH! WEBSITE

Alica Jörg (1988) studied communication design at the FH Mainz (Germany) and at the Swinburne Universität Melbourne. Currently she is enrolled in the art and design master programme at the Hochschule Luzern (Switzerland) .

The projects of Alica Jörg have been awarded at the Deutscher Designer Club and the Design Prize Rheinland-Pfalz. 2013 she received a scholarship of the Hirschmann Foundation.

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output award 2013 – the winners

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We are very proud to announce the winners of this years :output award.
There were almost 800 projects in the race and the competition was tough.
We had the privilege to look at many outstanding works and we are also very pleased with the overall quality of the work submitted – fantastic! This makes us very optimistic about the future of design and architecture and we would like to thank everybody who participated …

We want to draw your special attention to the winners of this years :output Grand Prix Koby Barhard from the Royal College of Art and Regina Huber, Leo Dziallas and Philipp Feigenbutz from the designschool munich. Congratulations!

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OUTPUT GRAND PRIX

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All that I Am
Koby Barhad
Royal College of Art, UNITED KINGDOM

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V.I.K.I.
Regina Huber, Leo Dziallas, Philipp Feigenbutz
designschool munich, GERMANY

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DISTINCTION

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LEARN TO UNLEARN
Lina-Marie Köppen
Design Academy Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS

16.0020030
Ja…Nein…Vielleicht!
Saskia Köhler
Fachhochschule Hannover, GERMANY

16.0020533
Electromagnetic Harvester
Dennis Siegel
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, GERMANY

16.0020773
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle “Topographic Mantle”
Francisco Lara
University of Talca, CHILE

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we are open
Verena Hennig
Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, GERMANY

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20 Fuß über dem Meer
Ulla Oberdörffer
University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, GERMANY

16.0021972
Multiversum
Ornella Fiorina Fieres
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, GERMANY

16.0022227
Unterschicht – Der Geschäftsbericht der Geschäftslosen
Tanja Freudenthaler
HTWG Konstanz, GERMANY

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SELECTED

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Sprachtod – Von schwindenden Sprachen und sterbenden Worten
Philipp Koch
FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt, GERMANY

16.0019672
What about sustainability?
Steffi Zepp
Fachhochschule Trier, GERMANY

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45 MIN – Schule im Auftakt
Laura Dreßler, Dennis Michaelis
HTW Berlin, GERMANY

16.0019702
Private Nischen
Anna-Maria Scharf
designschool munich, GERMANY

16.0019961
Am I…?
Ji Hyun Yu
Fachhochschule Mainz, GERMANY

16.0020006
All art is quite useless.
sookwung lee
EWHA Womans University, KOREA

16.0020035
Crime Pays
Austin Houldsworth
Royal College of Art, UNITED KINGDOM

16.0020041
Face to Face
Federico Perez Villoro
Rhode Island School of Design RISD, UNITED STATES

16.0020125
A Lot Like Love/ We’ve All Been There
Joy Scopa
Otis College of Art and Design, UNITED STATES

16.0020160
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Katarina Lüth, Anja Rauenbusch
FH AACHEN, GERMANY

16.0020.225
Fixpunkte – ledgers
Felix Dölker
Hochschule Darmstadt/Fachbereich Gestaltung, GERMANY

16.0020.378
DREDGESCAPE
Xi Li
University of Pennsylvania School of Design, UNITED STATES

16.0020.384
Lorem Ipsum
Diana Kettern
Fachhochschule Trier, GERMANY

16.0020.626
100 Beste Plakate 11 / 100 Best Posters 11
Marina Gärtner, Lena Haase, Laura Hillebrandt, Marita Schwenkedel, Isabel Thoma
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, GERMANY

16.0020.644
‘Coon Song’
Jonas Zieher
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, GERMANY

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it’s no biggie
Thoka Maer
University of Arts Berlin, GERMANY

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blossom
Carolin Reichherzer
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, GERMANY

16.0020.781
It Takes a Village
Nick Meehan, Paul Stümpel
Design Academy Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS

16.0020.804
Re:volution
Nick Meehan
Design Academy Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS

16.0020.845
Spuren des Dagewesenseins – Einsichten in Gipfelbücher der vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Zeit
Sarah Schmitt
Fachhochschule Mainz, GERMANY

16.0020.922
Unstable Products
Henrik Nieratschker
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, GERMANY

16.0021.109
Precise Ambiguities
Moritz Greiner-Petter
University of Arts Berlin, GERMANY

16.0021.222
Endangered Languages. Exhibited.
Manuela Hertling
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GERMANY

16.0021.252
Speranza Lions Club
Patrick Oltean, Jonas Beuchert, Marcel Mendler
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, GERMANY

16.0021.342
NEBELLEBEN – Künstlerische Ansichten zum Thema Demenz
Romina Birzer
FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt, GERMANY

16.0021.382
Hardware and software
DingRan, Lizhishuai, ZhaoQian
Wuhan University of Technology, CHINA

16.0021.387
Escola Aberta
Nina Paim
Gerrit Rietveld Acadmie, NETHERLANDS

16.0021.420
Causal Timelines
Marc Nonnenmacher
FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt, GERMANY

16.0021.438
THE URBAN RUBIK’S CUBE
Victor Vieaux
Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst Sint-Lucas, BELGIUM

16.0021.455
Wewewe
Markus Stumpf
FH Nürnberg, GERMANY

16.0021.494
Faust 1. Ein Prozess
Eva-Maria Ostendorf
FH-Bielefeld, GERMANY

16.0021.538
ABANDONED PROVIDENCE
Franziska Stetter
Rhode Island School of Design RISD, UNITED STATES

16.0021.558
Fracture
Tsu-Ning Lai
Shih Chien University, TAIWAN

16.0021.597
1876
Verena Bährle
Hochschule Konstanz, GERMANY

16.0021.673
Future History Post – Future History Breaking News
Hsien-Chu Kuo
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TAIWAN

16.0021.715
words of a middleman
Christoph Steinlehner, Lino Teuteberg, Jeremias Volker
FH Potsdam, GERMANY

16.0021.734
Guiltless Excuses
Pei-Ying Lin
Royal College of Art, UNITED KINGDOM

16.0021.742
Metalevel Scanner
Jonas Otto
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, GERMANY

16.0021.755
At once Typeface
Eunjung Lee
SADI(Samsung Art & Design Isntitute), KOREA

16.0021.765
Syn chron
Alba Prat
University of Arts Berlin, GERMANY

16.0021.769
ikosaie 13
Jana Schindelhauer
Burg Giebichenstein HS für Kunst und Design, GERMANY

16.0021.884
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun. A Solar Park, Calabria, Italia.
Jonathan Robert Maj, Valentina Chiappa Nunez
Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura e Società, ITALY

16.0021.885
Über die Norm (About the norm)
Irina Gilgen
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, GERMANY

16.0022.031
Das Buch Stéphane Mallarmés
Maximiliane Hüls
FH-Bielefeld, GERMANY

16.0022.100
lib.com – interactive communication concept for libraries
Felix Dölker, Florian Schunck
Hochschule Darmstadt/Fachbereich Gestaltung, GERMANY

16.0022.174
Tangible Taipei
Joro Chen
National Taiwan Normal University, TAIWAN

16.0022.232
Visual Beat
Max Mörtl
University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, GERMANY

16.0022.326
MoV_Spreading Street Dance
lais tavares
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

16.0022.437
Some Magazine, Identity
Rahel Brochhagen, Julia Kluge, Verena Lupberger, Lea Sievertsen, Carolin Stusak
Burg Giebichenstein HS für Kunst und Design, GERMANY

16.0022.445
“resonate”, interactive light & sound installation
Francesca Müller, Lisa Bader, Edyta Bednarska, Janine Bläß, Navina Groß, Isabel Klaus, Olga Kondrjuk, Dorothee Mainka, Lea Mirbach, Alexia Pogiatzi, Janina Rausch, Eslam Rafaee, Magdalena Teuber, Nemanja Tomasevic, Olga Zergibel
Fachhochschule Mainz, GERMANY

16.0022.485
City Square 2.0
Jenny Grossmann, Adrian Reinboth
HAWK Hildesheim, GERMANY

16.0022539
Face-o-mat
Tobias Gutmann
Konstfack, SWEDEN

16.0022668
money
Nora Mohr
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, GERMANY

16.0022752
Reise nach Westen
Jonas Pietsch
Bauhaus University Weimar, GERMANY

16.0022896
A folk tale in statement
Denis Yilmaz
University of Arts Berlin, GERMANY

16.0022946
OBJECT 12-1
Matija Čop
tekstilno-tehnološki fakultet, CROATIA

16.0022970
Slow Design
Sonja Zagermann
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, SWITZERLAND

16.0023.028
The Superstitious Fund Project
Shing Tat Chung
Royal College of Art, UNITED KINGDOM

16.0023033
‘Taiwan academy’book design
Fang-Miao Zhang, Xiang-Mei Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Chen, Yi-Yun
Ming Chuan University, TAIWAN

16.0023055 AA:
aka Abbreviation Algorithm
Jiwon Park
Rhode Island School of Design RISD, UNITED STATES

16.0023106
Project:Archetype-Icy Black Letter Type
Jinwoo Lee
Kookmin University, KOREA

16.0023112
S’s Algorithm
Song-Yi Han
Kookmin University, KOREA

16.0023391
imagine sisyphus happy.
Joanna Dauner, Marjam Fels
University of Arts Berlin, GERMANY

16.0023410
DIN Decapt
Sven Herkt, Troy Kreiner, Vladslav Dmytriv, Timothy Schaumburg
Fachhochschule Mainz, GERMANY

16.0023418
Pendulum
Thomas Aull
FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt, GERMANY

16.0023422
DUPLEX360 – two lenses_one camera
Julian Schwarze
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, GERMANY

16.0023498
conterform
Daniel Stern, Marcus Morgenstern
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, GERMANY

16.0023624
The Decelerator Helmet
Lorenz Potthast
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, GERMANY

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:output masters: Keetra Dean Dixon

We are proud that Keetra Dixon was with a project in one of the early :output books some years ago. Today Keetra is a designer and artist who often works under the handle FromKeetra and divides her time between public installations, exhibits and commercial projects. Her work has been recognized on several fronts including a US presidential award, a place in the permanent design collection at the SFMOMA, and the honorable ranking of ADC Young Gun.

Listen to Keetra talking about the importance to make friends at university since …

Also, please check her website

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:output masters: Laurent Lacour about :output, what he learned in university (and after)

Laurent Lacour is a designer and partner at the design consultancy hauser lacour. About 13 years ago – when he was a student – he won an :output award and was published with his work in the :output yearbook. Today Laurent is a professor for corporate design in Düsseldorf. His design practice is probably one of the most renowned studios in Germany working for clients from very different ends like Deutsche Börse, Siemens, Sony, the Museum for Modern Art (mmk) or the Frankfurt Opera House.

In our series “:output masters” Laurent talks about what he learned at university, what he learned after and why :output has been a career booster for him.

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Do you want to be the next guest designer of :output?

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:output is searching for a design student to be the guest designer for the next issue of the yearbook :output.
Every issue of :output is designed by another guest designer. We are looking for students who are interested to spend the summer in Amsterdam and work as an intern in our studio on the design of the next book (for which currently the call for entries is open). You will be fully responsible for the design and the production up until the printing of the book – supported by the :output team. Last guest designer was Katja Baumann who did this wonderfull issue.

Hard facts about the guest designer/internship:
_ internship
_ payment 750 euro/month
_ may/june – october/november
_ workplace in amsterdam
_ full responsibility + team support

Applications:
If you are interested please send your application with a cv and work samples to Florian Pfeffer: pfeffer@open-output.org.

Be in the book:
And: maybe you not only want to design the book but actually be in it as well? In this case you should participate in the current :output award. Deadline is march 15.

You can participate here …

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2 questions to Dennis Paul

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As the third in our series “Two questions to …” with quick snapshots of the judges for the current :output competition we have talked to Dennis Paul from the University of Arts Bremen. We know Dennis for quite a while and are very happy that he agreed to be part of this years :output jury. On a side note it looks like everybody loves “Kickstarter …” …

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Tell us something you now know that as a student you would benefit from knowing as one ponders a life in design?

My most recent and most relevant epiphany is this: Design is not ( only ) a service industry. For a very long time i was taught and brought up to believed that the designers-work-for-clients model was the only realistic one. I know now that it is, while proven to be feasable, by far not the only way to practice as a designer. As a matter of fact i believe that we are obliged, young and old, to experiment with different models and hence (re)define what it means to be a designer.

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What is one of the, or the most exciting object(s), thing(s), design, idea(s), project you have seen or experienced recently?

In reference to the first answer and maybe a little tongue-in-cheek i would answer: KICKSTARTER. Of course there is a lot of hype involved, but i just know it is a revolution. Design/art wise it is very hard to say. I see a lot of very, very good works in my field every day. But two works that couldn t be more different still fascinated me: i am blown away by TEENAGE ENGINEERING’S “OP-1″  (not just its appearance but the very whole thing ), and also RYOTA KUWAKUBO’S “THE THENTH SENTIMENT left a lasting impression on me ( it is BTW nearly impossible to capture this work on photo or film ).

Bio Dennis Paul:
is an interaction designer, lives in Bremen and holds a professorship for »INTERAKTION UND RAUM« at HFK BREMEN. He is co-founder of the Berlin-based studio for spatial, media-related design THE PRODUCT. In his WORK he is concerned with the interaction between humans and technology and the relationship between the conceptual, the virtual, the immaterial, and the physical. His works frequently take the form of installations in public spaces, physical interfaces, and generative systems. With great passion he is researching the communicative, playful, narrative, and critical qualities of new and digital media. He strongly believes that technology must be something warm and emotional. His work has been exhibited internationally and has received various renown awards.

The :output award:
The :OUTPUT AWARD is the biggest award for students in design and architecture worldwide. All works selected by the international jury will be published in the :output yearbook and in the design magazine form. The best project of the year will be awarded the :output Grand Prix which comes with a scholarship of 3.000 Euro.

 

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2 questions to Catelijne van Middelkoop

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Following up our series “Two questions to …” with quick snapshots of the judges for the current :output competition we met Catelijne van Middelkoop at the Design Academy Eindhoven. To us the Design Academy Eindhoven is currently one of the most interesting design schools standing for a very broad view on design which reaches far beyond traditional perceptions of what design is and can do (check out their website – you can find their link below) …

PARTICIPATE IN THE :OUTPUT AWARD HERE

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Tell us something you now know that as a student you would benefit from knowing as one ponders a life in design?

Don’t only focus on the final result; embrace the entire process. Let go of assumptions. Reach out of your comfort zone every once in a while and if nothing else, you will gain some new perspective. Be passionate, but don’t forget that no matter what you do, you are a part of a larger whole. Look around to see how you position yourself and be aware of the current context—what was there before you and what will come next. As a problem solver you have the ability to contribute to a world which is larger and more interesting than design alone. Act responsibly and enjoy every minute of it.

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What is one of the, or the most exciting object(s), thing(s), design, idea(s), project you have seen or experienced recently?

Kickstarter,
Mars Rover Curiosity,
The collaboration of the Edwards Brothers on their AUVI-Q

 

Bio Catelijne van Middelkoop:
Catelijne van Middelkoop (1975) is a partner of Strange Attractors Design, an international studio located in Rotterdam and NYC which she founded together with Ryan Pescatore Frisk in 2001. Strange Attractors uses new and traditional media to create design solutions for contemporary problems and desires. Besides running a design practice, Catelijne is coordinator and teacher in the Man and Communication department at Design Academy Eindhoven and lecturer in the Graphic Design Department of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands.

The :output award:
The :OUTPUT AWARD is the biggest award for students in design and architecture worldwide. All works selected by the international jury will be published in the :output yearbook and in the design magazine form. The best project of the year will be awarded the :output Grand Prix which comes with a scholarship of 3.000 Euro.

 

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2 questions to Jessica Helfand

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Every year in spring some of the best designers, thinkers and educators from around the world meet in Amsterdam for two days in a dark room to judge, debate and select the works submitted to the :output award out of more than 1.000 individual projects.
PARTICIPATE IN THE :OUTPUT AWARD HERE

Our series “Two questions to …” presents quick snapshots of these people with real dedication towards design education and student work. We are very happy that we can kick-off this series with Jessica Helfand, co-founder of Winterhouse and the Design Observer platform. Jessica Helfand will be awarded the prestigious AIGA medal in spring this year …

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Tell us something you now know that as a student you would benefit from knowing as one ponders a life in design?

I would worry less about what’s cool and more about what’s honest. I would worry less about following and more about leading. And I would look at a future life in design as something much more than a life in design: reach farther, think deeper, say something/do something/be something more than “just” a designer.

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What is one of the, or the most exciting object(s), thing(s), design, idea(s), project you have seen or experienced recently?

India. Period!

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We are curious to meet Jessica in April in Amsterdam and maybe she will tell us a thing or two about India …

 

Bio Jessica Helfand:
Jessica Helfand is an award-winning graphic designer and writer. She is partner with William Drenttel in Winterhouse and a founding editor of Design Observer, currently the largest international website for design, visual thinking and cultural criticism.  A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines, she has written for numerous national publications including Aperture, Los Angeles Times Book Review and The New Republic.

She is the author of Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), and Scrapbooks: An American History (Yale University Press, 2008) which was named one of the best books of that year by The New York Times.

Appointed by the Postmaster General to the U.S Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee in 2006, she is a  Life Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society, a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. With William Drenttel, Ms. Helfand was the first-ever recipient of the Henry Wolf Residency at the American Academy in Rome. In the spring of 2013, she will be awarded the AIGA Medal.

Jessica Helfand received both her B.A. in graphic design and architectural theory and her M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994 where she is Senior Critic in Graphic Design and a Lecturer in Yale College.

 

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output award – deadline march 15

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Get your work out!
The :output award is the biggest international competition for works of students and is open now for submissions until march 15.Students from all fields of design and architecture can submit their work HERE to receive an :output award, get published in the :output yearbook, the design magazine form and/or win the :output Grand Prix (3.000 Euro).

New this year: award partner “form”
We have teamed up with Germany’s most prestigious design magazine FORM to become our award partner. This means that all works chosen by the jury will not only be shown in the YEARBOOK :OUTPUT but also in a special section of form in fall this year (print run 10.000 copies).

Grand Prix: 3.000 Euro
The best project will be awarded the :output Grand Prix and 3.000 Euro prize money.

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