The Federal Office of Culture and the Museum Bellerive, an establishment of the Museum of Design Zürich, are happy
to present the winners of the 2008 Swiss Federal Design Competition, to which 210 designers submitted their entries.
In the final round, the Federal Design Committee presided by Lorette Coen awarded grants to nineteen works/projects by twenty-two designers. The winners may now choose either the prize money of CHF 20,000, or an internship, or a stay
at a studio abroad. The prize-winning pieces are exhibited at the Museum Bellerive in Zürich, and presented in an illustrated catalogue.
With these grants the FOC intends to promote young creative designers from all over Switzerland. As in past years, contributions from the field of graphic design have been particularly striking, with seven grants going to an impressive range of graphic designers – from experienced creators of book designs commissioned by large cultural institutions
or publishers, to experimentators in the context of a graduation project. Four grants have been awarded to the makers of industrial, product and furniture designs ranging from a prototype to the polished serial production that has already found
a market. Two grants each are being awarded in the fields of photography and jewellery; and, finally, three fashion designers and one scenographer are also receiving grants.
Publication: Eidgenössische Förderpreise für Design, Bourses fédérales de design, Swiss Federal Design Grants 2008, Federal Office of Culture (ed.), Verlag Birkhäuser 2008; 152 pp., colour, G/F/E;
texts by Patrizia Crivelli, Eduard Hartmann and Aurelia Müller; ISBN 978-3-7643-8807-2, CHF 39.90
to order, please contact: verlag@museum-gestaltung.ch; fax +41 (0)43 446 45 67
