The Biennial of Poster Bolivia (BICeBé) has been a presentation platform for graphic design from Bolivia and its southern neighbours since 2009. The programme includes an international congress, lectures, exhibitions, a symposium on design education, and workshops held by partnering universities. However, the highlight remains the poster competition, to which students, graphic designers, photographers, visual artists, and producers of graphic content are invited to submit entries. Submissions can be made in the categories of cultural posters, social posters, advertising or commercial posters. In addition, unpublished posters on “The Era of Disinformation” and GIFs on “Women’s Empowerment” are sought. Depending on the category, the winners will be awarded prizes between 1,000 and 5,000 US dollars.

Every year, wishing to promote students and designers under the age of 28 who are at the beginning of their careers, the AED association awards the AED Neuland prize. The criteria, according to which an interdisciplinary panel evaluates the work, focus on the level of innovation, sustainability, functionality, economic usability, and aesthetics as well as demonstrating a clear benefit for people and society. Participants can submit entries in the following categories: architecture and engineering, exhibition design and interior design, product design, communication design, interaction design. The winner of each category will receive a prize money of 2,000 euros. Together with other nominated submissions, the winning projects will be presented in a touring exhibition and a publication.

There is little consensus even among those involved in design discourse about exactly how to define the concept of design, making it all the more important to encourage writing on content and style. Developed in honour of the industrial designer Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, responsible for major contributions to the professionalisation of the design discipline in Germany, the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Advancement Award for Essays in Design Criticism 2019 is being held for the eighth time to support design students and graduates in their theoretical work. The Swiss publisher Niggli Verlag will publish the winning text as an independent book in the series “bf-preis. Designkritische Texte”.

The initiative Recyclingbörse is looking for innovative solutions for the use of waste and residual materials in order to find the Recycling Design Award winners. A ten-member jury will select from the submissions according to criteria of design quality, utility value, novelty, and future potential. Designs that can be produced in series by craft businesses or that can be realised in collaboration with workshops for the disabled or youth workshops, for example, are welcome. The three best concepts will be sponsored with prize money and presented together in a travelling exhibition with those selected as distinguished ideas and most interesting submissions.