Students and recent graduates from all design-related courses and programs (up to 2 years after graduation) are welcome to register their entries for the iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD 2022 free of charge. The concepts should not be older than 2 years at the time they are submitted. We will also accept works by small teams of designers with maximum 4 team members.
Registration deadline
16 March 2022
Online Preselection
14-26 April 2022
Jury session in Berlin
18 May 2022
Information to the award winners
from 24 May 2022
Awards ceremony in Valencia, Spain
15-16 June 2022
Publication of the award winners
23 June 2022
You can submit as many entries as you like - but each entry can only be submitted once per competition. You are not permitted to submit the same entry to several categories.
To admit your concept to the jury, the online registration has to be complete! After you have submitted your online registration, we will immediately send you a confirmation email.
Please use the “Address data” to indicate your university address. If already available in “my iF addressbook” just choose an address from there. If you want to create a new address as your university address, please click on the button “Change” under your university address and then click on “Add New Address”.
If you have studied at more than one university, please enter the one where the entry you are submitting was mainly designed.
Teams with up to four members can submit entries together. You can only create one user account for the whole team.
In the section "Credits" you can add three more team members with name and university.
All correspondence will be sent to the team member who created and manages the user account for the team. If your team concept will be awarded, all team members will receive an award.
Jury experts from all over the world will evaluate all admitted entries and decide on the award winners as well as on the distribution of prize money of EUR 50,000 in total.
Winner logo for download
Winner certificate for download
iF Jury Feedback Chart for download
Your award-winning entry will be specially marked and shown on the iF Design Website unlimited in time.
All winning entries will be published in the iF Design App.
Your entry will be presented in the iF design exhibition Chengdu.
iF PR and Social Media work
Awards ceremony on 15 -16 June 2022 in Valencia, Spain
You are encouraged to submit your concept only to the categories of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (1-15). Concepts that do not meet these goals thematically will not be accepted and thus not admitted to the jury.
Does it solve a problem?
Degree of innovation
Degree of elaboration
Uniqueness
Use value and usability
Does it reflect or promote high moral-ethical standards?
Human dignity
Respect for the individual justice and fairness
Awareness of environmental standards
Social responsibility
Does it strengthen group relations?
Sensitivity for cultural traditions and power relations
Concern for common goals and the collective
Addressing social conflict through dialogue
Does it make economic sense?
Efficient use of resources
Feasibility and ease of implementation
Long-term perspective
Profitability
Does it create a positive experience?
Respect for the individual, justice + fairness, positive experience and fun
Aesthetic potential, spatial ambience
Social responsibility, comfort and pleasure
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