Swiss Design Awards – the 2014 winners
Bern, 13.06.2014 - The Federal Office of Culture (FOC) has named 20 winners of the Swiss Design Awards 2014. All the award winners will be honoured on 17 June, along with Alfredo Häberli, Wolfgang Weingart and Erich Biehle, the previously announced winners of the Swiss Grand Award for Design 2014. Works by the participants in the second round of the Swiss Design Competition will be presented in the Swiss Design Awards 2014 exhibition, which takes place in parallel with Art Basel.
The Swiss Design Competition is open to Swiss designers. The Federal Design Committee acts as jury. The competition consists of two rounds. In the first, the participants submit a dossier to the Committee, and those selected then go forward to a second round in which they present their work in the public Swiss Design Awards exhibition at which the Committee names the award winners.
This year’s awards go to 20 designers in the fields of photography (3), graphic design (9), fashion and textile design (4), products and objects (4). Winners can choose between prize money of CHF 25,000, a six-month internship at a well-known firm, or a studio residence of their choice abroad.
The Swiss Design Awards 2014:
3 awards for photography
Julien Gremaud (1984, lives and works in Jongny)
Emilie Muller (1980, lives and works in Lausanne)
Virginie Rebetez (1979, lives and works in Lausanne)
4 awards for fashion and textile design
Stéphanie Baechler (1983, lives and works in London)
Flaka Jahaj (1983, lives and works in Zurich)
Sandro Marzo (1986, lives and works in Münchenstein)
Julien Zigerli (1984, lives and works in Zurich and Berlin)
9 awards for graphic design
Atlas Studio (Martin Andereggen, 1985; Claudio Gasser, 1985; Jonas Wandeler, 1983, live and work in Zurich)
Prill Vieceli Cremers (Tania Prill, 1969; Alberto Vieceli, 1965; Sebastian Cremers, 1976, live and work in Zurich)
Vincent Devaud (1984, lives and works in Geneva)
Eugster/Keshavjee/Koller (Marietta Eugster, 1985; David Keshavjee, 1985; Andreas Koller, 1983, live and work in Zurich)
Louisa Gagliardi (1989, lives and works in Zurich)
Robert Huber (1982, lives and works in Lausanne)
Ronny Hunger (1985, lives and works in Zurich)
Simone Koller (1980, lives and works in Zurich)
Aurèle Sack (1977 lives and works in Lausanne)
4 awards for products and objects
Brunner X Mettler (Thilo Alex Brunner, 1977; Jörg Mettler, 1979, live and work in Zurich)
Carlo Clopath (1986, lives and works in Trin-Mulin)
BIG-GAME (Augustin Scott de Martinville, 1980; Elric Petit, 1978; Grégoire Jeanmonod, 1978, live and work in Lausanne)
Yann Mathis (1986, lives and works in Charrot)
Swiss Grand Award for Design 2014
As already announced, textile designer Erich Biehle, industrial designer Alfredo Häberli and typographer Wolfgang Weingart have received awards this year. The three internationally renowned designers, whose work has been widely exhibited and published and has received numerous honours, constantly question, test and reinterpret design history and offer new ideas that inspire Swiss design. Launched in 2007 and endowed with CHF 40,000 each time, the Swiss Grand Award for Design highlights the work of well-known designers that exemplifies the quality and relevance of Swiss design practice nationally and internationally.
Visual materials and information
-In addition to this press release, further information on the participants in the Swiss Design Awards 2014 and the Swiss Grand Award for Design 2014 can be found at: www.swissdesignawards.ch
-For the latest information on the exhibition and the accompanying programme visit the exhibition blog at: www.swissdesignawardsblog.ch
-High-resolution images of the award winners can be downloaded from: www.bak.admin.ch/SDA2014
-The Federal Office of Culture will be making photos of the award ceremony available from midday on 18 June. They can be downloaded from: www.bak.admin.ch/SDA2014
Swiss Design Awards and Swiss Grand Award for Design presentation ceremony: 17 June 2014, 6 p.m., Hall 4, Messe Basel exhibition centre
Swiss Design Awards 2014 exhibition
Vernissage: 16 June 2014, 6 p.m., Hall 4, Messe Basel exhibition centre
Exhibition: 17 to 22 June 2014, Hall 4.0, Messe Basel exhibition centre
Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily (Sunday until 7 p.m.), admission free
Design Day: 18 June 2014, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Publication: A journal featuring portraits of the participants in the Swiss Design Awards and the Swiss Grand Award for Design, with numerous articles and illustrations, is published on 16 June to accompany the exhibition. (German/French/English, free of charge)
Address for enquiries
On the Confederation’s awards policy:
Danielle Nanchen, Head of Cultural Creativity Section, Federal Office of Culture
+41 (0)58 464 98 23, danielle.nanchen@bak.admin.ch
On the award winners, the Swiss Design Awards 2014 exhibition and the Design Day event:
Patrizia Crivelli, Deputy Head, Cultural Creativity Section, Design Promotion, Federal Office of Culture, +41 (0)58 462 92 77, patrizia.crivelli@bak.admin.ch
Publisher
Federal Office of Cultural Affairs
http://www.bak.admin.ch
