Pure Talents Contest Awards Ceremony

In the Pure Talents Contest, students and graduates who have recently completed their education, can apply with designs and prototypes that are not yet in production from all field of interior design. During imm cologne, three winners will be chosen from the twenty nominated entries. Traditionally, the announcement of the winners of the competition is eagerly anticipated on the first day of the Cologne interior fair at The Stage.

In terms of entrants to the Pure Talents Contest, the field has rarely been as international as it is this year, featuring 671 designers from 53 countries. Many entries were submitted by students and young graduates from every major university, including the RCA London, Design Academy Eindhoven, LASALLE Singapore, ECAL, Aalto University, Konstfack Stockholm, Pratt Institute NY, ArtCenter Pasadena and many others. Promising young German designers from universities such as Burg Giebichenstein, Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, Kassel College of Fine Arts (KHK), UdK Berlin or Folkwang Essen as well as from the arts and craft academies of Garmisch, Münster and Aachen, among others, were also represented.