The international competition one&twenty is aimed at you! Design students and graduates! Talents and newcomers! With innovative product and project ideas in the field of product design and lifestyle you are part of it. Participation in the competition is free of charge. 21 products and product ideas will be awarded, which benefit from worldwide visibility, comprehensive marketing measures and our international network.
Take the opportunity to show your vision to the Who is Who of the design scene and get to know renowned designers and companies in our international network. Present yourselves!
The German Design Council Foundation has been operating since 1953 as one of the world’s leading centers of expertise in communication and knowledge transfer within design, branding and innovation. With the one&twenty competition, it offers design students and graduates a platform to present themselves effectively to the public. The top-class jury from the fields of business and design selects 21 designers whose work is presented to an international audience. As a winner, you will travel to the Milan Design Week 2024 and the German Design Council has a lot to offer you: Participation in the one&twenty exhibition, coverage of travel costs and accommodation, the opportunity to make contacts on site, as well as presentation in the press and social media channels of the German Design Council.
Lutz Dietzold with the "Best of Best" winners Julia Huhnholz and Friedrich Gerlach - Photo: Daniel Banner
The "Best of Best" project The Essence of Biocement - Photo: Trend Nomad
Call for Entries
22 November 2023 to 18 January 2024
Jury session
February 2024
Announcement of the Shortlist
5 March 2024
Announcement of the Winners
19 March 2024
Announcement of Best of Best
15 April 2024
Exhibition opening
15 April 2024
Winner 2022
Felix Landwehr
"It’s great to be here, to be active, to talk to people and to be seen in the end. So, it is very exciting to be part of it, and I was very happy to win!"
Justus Hilfenhaus Winner 2023
"It is special that you have the opportunity to present your work to an international audience here in Milan at the fair and to meet many interesting people, many interesting designers and industry parts."
Marie Radke
"Milan, this is the city of design, and it's great to be here and meet other young designers and newcomers and have discussions about what the design world is like at universities."
The duo, who studied product and communication design, founded their own interdisciplinary studio in Hamburg in May 2011. In addition to interior design, their repertoire includes visual communication, editorial design and styling.
Their ideas and products are based on a combination of unusual materials with striking colour concepts. Eva Marguerre (born in 1983) and Marcel Besau (born in 1980) have already enjoyed notable success in their still young career, with numerous nominations for international design prizes. Among other things, they were among the 5 Newcomer Finalists for the German Design Award of the German Design Council in 2014.
As an independent consultant, Nina helps brands connect (or re-connect) with consumers through design and visual storytelling. Her consultancy is based on trend forecasting, a rare understanding of the art and science of colors, design industry experience and valuable digital consumer insights.
UBDO is an industrial design office based in Berlin, Germany. Established in 2009 by German designer Uli Budde, their work covers various fields of design ranging from furniture to accessories and lighting to tableware for clients including Marset (Spain), Oligo (Germany), Thonet (Germany), Vertigo Bird (Slovenia), A.E.Köchert Juweliere (Austria), Royal VKB (Netherlands) and De Vorm (Netherlands).
Mathias Hahn Design Studio Germany, United Kingdom
Mathias Hahn
Mathias Hahn Design Studio, Germany, United Kingdom
Since 2006, Mathias Hahn has headed a product design studio in London and is a founding member of the OKAYstudio collective. His design studio provides consulting services and implements a wide variety of projects in the fields of product, furniture and interior design for international clients.
Philipp Mainzer, a native of Germany, studied product design and architecture in London. In 1995 he became a co-founder of e15, thus establishing a furniture brand based on a progressive yet consistent philosophy. Today, Philipp Mainzer is the creative director and managing director of his architectural firm PHILIPP MAINZER OFFICE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN and of e15.
Nils Holger Moormann positions himself somewhere between the conventions of conventionality and makes himself comfortable amidst his pieces of furniture. They are not unlike the man himself: ascetic, well thought through, and with a nod and a wink to posterity that is easily missed. As an autodidact and free spirit, Nils Holger Moormann has, from 1982 onwards, developed with a number of mostly young, unknown designers furniture which exhibits a reduced formal language and precise solutions to detail.
The key thoughts are simplicity, intelligence and innovation, and these colour the company’s entire philosophy. From the company headquarters in Aschau to the purist design of FNP – a classic in its own right – and the unusual guesthouse ‘berge’, any new ideas and deliberations will certainly not be put off until tomorrow.
The work of Raw Color reflects a sophisticated treatment of material by mixing the fields of photography and graphic design. In the Eindhoven based studio they are working on self initiated and commissioned projects. By trusting on their intuition Raw Color has created a design language that is verbally direct, energetic and recognizable.
Hanne Willmann is a multidisciplinary Designer based in Berlin, focusing on Product Design and Creative Direction. Hannes core competencies lie in the areas of furniture, lights and tableware. The inventive designs are characterized by her deep passion for details and the high value placed on aesthetic appeal. After studying at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Elisava in Barcelona, Hanne worked for the design studio Autoban in Istanbul and for Werner Aisslinger in Berlin, before she found her own studio in 2015. In the the same year she was selected as "Design Talent of the Year 2015" by A&W Magazine, followed by the German Design Award "Newcomer Finalist 2016". Since 2017 she is lecturing at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
Min Chen is the founder of his eponymous studio, a multi-faceted design practice based in Hangzhou. Min Chen graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven and Domus Academy, he set up his own office in 2012. Finding the best bonding point of tradition and modernization, east and west have always been what Min Chen is good at. He provides design service for Loewe, SWAROVSKI, NIKE, Starbucks, Veneta Cucine, de Sede ,NATUZZI and other international famous brands. As the only finalist of Loewe international craft awards in China 2018, and then were invited by Loewe foundation to be expert judges of Craft Prize 2019.
China Editor at Wallpaper* magazine & Co-founder at Collective Contemporist Netherlands
Yoko Choy
China Editor at Wallpaper* magazine & Co-founder at Collective Contemporist, Netherlands
Born in Hong Kong, Yoko Choy is an experienced design journalist; her work to date has been published in numerous international titles and she is currently the China editor of Wallpaper* magazine (global edition). Yoko is also a highly regarded communications consultant, whose clients include fair organisers, brands and creative studios. Currently based in Hong Kong and Amsterdam, she views East-meets-West as more than just an alignment of two aesthetic visions; her mission, as a multilingual and multicultural creative commentator and communicator, is to translate the knowledge and insights from both worlds into a common creative language and to raise awareness of the importance of cross-cultural exchange in the creative industry and businesses. To this end, Yoko co-founded Collective Contemporist in 2018, a creative consultancy with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Amsterdam, to stimulate and inspire conversations and collaborations between the two spheres.
Main media partner of this year's one&twenty is Designboom. Designboom is an international web magazine covering industrial design, architecture and art. It was founded in 1999 and is based in Milan.
ndion is the media partner of one&twenty 2024. ndion is the content platform of the German Design Council, which has been committed to the economic, cultural and social relevance of design, brand and innovation since its foundation in 1953.
