smow blog compact IMM Cologne Special: Pure Talents Contest 2015

Presumably for reasons of brand unity the German Design Council’s D3 Design Talent Contest for young designers has been renamed the Pure Talents Contest: a name that connects it with the very successful Pure segment – Pure Village, Pure Editions, Pure Startup – Cologne Trade Fair introduced to IMM furniture trade fair a couple of years ago, and also creates a nice link between those, generally, more contemporary producers in the Pure segment and the, generally, more contemporary young designers in the competition.

What has remained the same is the eclectic mix of projects nominated for the award, ranging from the conventional to the experimental and from the realistic to the conceptual. And that all nominated projects are presented in an exhibition during IMM Cologne

First prize his year, and presumably the right to call himself a “Pure Talent” was awarded to Bremen based Moritz Putzier for his Cooking Table project: a sort of dining table cum cooking station cum social focal point. So a concept as much as a very nicely thought through object.

Second prize went to Sara Mellone for her very intelligent and extremely promising modular shelving system UDO and third prize to FROM Industrial Design a.k.a Manuel Amaral Netto, Cesare Bizzotto & Tobias Nitsche for their porcelain table lamp Abyss.

Congratulations to all!

And indeed all nominated!!!

A few impressions from the Pure Talents Contest 2015 exhibition.