Participation in the iF concept award is free.
Students and recent graduates of all courses related to the following areas are welcome to register their entries:

    * Design
    * Architecture
    * Marketing
    * Engineering

Graduates are viewed as "young professionals" and are eligible to participate if they graduated no more than two years ago at the time of registration. We will accept projects by individual designers and by teams of designers with no more than 4 team members.

Categories

To reflect the range of contributions, entries will be evaluated in four categories. There is no limit to the number of contributions each participant can submit. However, each contribution can only be submitted once and only in one category.
If the jury thinks that an entry would be better assigned to a different category, the jury can assign the entry to a new category. This usually means that the entry will have a better chance of being successful.

Here are the four categories of the iF concept award, including a few examples of which types of entries should be submitted to each category.

01. product design / industrial design openclose

Product design
Industrial design
Transportation design
Design of technological or health care devices
Furniture and interior design objects
Sports products
Lifestyle products
Ceramic products
Survival and Emergency Kits
Production methods, materials and their application

02. communication design / multimedia design openclose

Packaging design
Graphic design
Game design
Design for digital media
Cross media design
GUI - graphical user interface design
Advertising
Photography
Film and video
Animation
Illustration

03. fashion design openclose

Fashion design
Textile design
Costume design
Jewelry design
Fashion accessories
Fashion illustration

04. architecture / interior design

Public spaces and buildings
Private buildings and spaces
Office blocks
Interior spaces
Temporary architecture
Exhibition design (trade fair booths, museum displays etc.)
Communication media for public spaces
Visual orientation systems
Interactive installations

Dates

Registration deadline: 15 November 2010
Notification of shortlist: from 17 January 2011 onwards
Jury session: 28 January 2011
Notification of jury decision: from: 1 February 2011 onwards
iF concept award yearbook 2011: available from May 2011