In collaboration with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is inviting visitors to design relevant workshops as part of the Friedrich von Borries exhibition “Politics of Design, Design of Politics”. Groups and individuals interested in design and politics can send their proposals to workshop@dntsm.de until 23 April. The four final workshops will be prepared by Friedrich von Borries and accompanied by experts. The discourse will take place in public with prominent guests from politics, science and culture, and the results will be integrated into the exhibition at the end.

As part of the Typomania Festival, which has been held annually in Moscow since its foundation in 2012, the initiators are organising the competition for typography videos. They are looking for video works in which writing is a primary active element. This could be presenting a font type with its characteristics and functions, designing titles for film and television, visualising lyrics, poetry or text in general or animating the Typomania logo. Entries should not exceed 300 megabytes in size or three minutes in length. Works completed before 2016 must not be submitted. The international jury includes Tereza Ruller, Niklaus Troxler, Tony Zagoraios, Denis Vsesvyatsky and Arthur Kondrashenkov.

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.