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// about

make me! contest

The international make me! competition is one of the most influential and innovative events in the field of product design in Europe and a key event of the Lodz Design Festival. The key purpose of the contest is to identify new trends, brave ideas and support those young people who are ready to compete and come up with interesting ideas. The finalists of previous editions emphasize the new opportunities opened to them: presence at additional exhibitions and mentions in publications. Consequently, they get better recognition and an easier start in the design community. The competition, which has been carried out since 2008, is addressed to designers, makers, students and graduates, especially from art and design disciplines. To all those that are impulsively triggered to design when noticing a need or problem. In make me! projects that experiment with material or seek new interpretations of existing functions are also awarded. Submitted works are evaluated in two stages by a specially-selected jury with diversified interests. Thanks to the presentation of projects at the exhibition open to the public and contacts with experts, make me! can be a springboard for further professional development.

Flickr photo album of the Festival 2019 3D walk around the exhibitions here

make me! contest

Promotion of make me! finalists and highlighted projects lasts all year! • presentation of each finalist of the competition on FB and IG Lodz Design Festival

(FB: 57 000 followers, IG: 10 717 followers; the figures from 15.01.2020) • Tuesdays with #makeme! sharing curiosities related to the finalists of the

competition; • additional presentations of the final projects and their authors (e.g. open

presentation 2019 during the week with design as part of Aktivist magazine in the center of Warsaw on Wiecha);

• articles about make me! among others: on portals related to design: MAGAZIF, DESIGNALIVE.PL, CULTURE.PL, INFOARCHITEKTA.PL, CONTEMPORARY LYNX, SZTUKA LABEL, CZTERY and publications in paper editions, among others: BIZNESmeble.pl, ARCHITEKTURA MURATOR or DOBRE

• www.makeme.lodzdesign.com • selected works will be presented during the post-competition exhibition as part

of the 14th International Design Festival - Design 2020

make me! - promotion

make me! - publications

make me! - publications

make me! - publications

make me! - publications

make me! - publications

make me! - publications

make me! - publications

// make me! 2008 - 2019

finalists 2008

make me! 2008

finalists 2009

make me! 2009

finalists 2010

make me! 2010

finalists 2011

make me! 2011

finalists 2012

make me! 2012

finalists 2013

make me! 2013

finalists 2014

make me! 2014

finalists 2015

make me! 2015

finalists 2016

make me! 2016

finalists 2017

make me! 2017

finalists 2018

make me! 2018

finalists 2019

make me! 2019

highlighted projects 2019

More about projects make me! 2019

award ceremony make me! 2019

The official opening of Lodz Design Festival took place on 17th May. The mayor of Lodz - Hanna Zdanowska, the President of Ceramika Paradyz - Adam , the director of LDF Piernikowski and a lot of guests and media representatives participated in the event. Traditionally, the winner of make me! competition for young artists was announced during this ceremony!

The winners of 50 000 PLN Awards funded by the Festival Patron Ceramika were Nils and Patrick Henry Nagel from German design studio Haus Otto,

which deals with the design of both products and space.

award ceremony make me! 2019

In 2019, 148 designers from around the world have sent applications to make me! contest. In addition to applications from Polish students, graduates and designers, we have received applications from such countries as: Egypt, France, Switzerland, Germany, Lithuania, South Korea, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, Canada, Austria, Israel , Turkey, Argentina, Moldova, Spain, the Czech Republic or Norway.

award ceremony make me! 2019

// jury 2020

jury 2020

SZYMON HANCZAR AGATA NOWOTNY

LUCA NICHETTO

BOAZ KATZ JERZY PORĘBSKI

jury 2020

AGNIESZKA JACOBSON-

CIELECKA

CZESŁAWA FREJLICH

MAURIZIO BURRATO

MARIUSZ WŁODARCZYK MICHAŁ PIERNIKOWSKI

// key dates

• Participants (including all members of informal project groups) must be between 20 and 35 years of age;

• Participation in the competition is paid (registration fee is PLN 150); • The condition of participation in the competition is to complete an online form for each

submitted project, available at www.makeme.lodzdesign.com in the "application form" tab, by 30th of June, 2020 (extended recruitment!);

www.makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/application-form/ • A necessary condition to participate in the second stage of the competition and the

exhibition after qualifying the Participant is the preparation and delivery of the project (prototype, product);

• The second stage of the jury deliberations will take place at the make me! exhibition, before the official opening of the festival, at which the winners of the AWARDS funded by Ceramika and the special Interprint award will be announced;

• The post-competition exhibition will take place as part of the 14th edition of the Design Festival

schedule and terms of participation

The conditions of participation in the make me! contest are set out in the Regulations, the full and current content of which is available on the website www.makeme.lodzdesign.com

Each of the final projects is awarded with the statuette of a project by Bartosz Mucha, the winner of make me! 2008. Bartosz uses his unique humor to create his designs, denying the usual patterns given to everyday objects, which is why the statuettes received an additional door lock function. Made entirely of beech wood, manufactured by Stanclik. Most of all I wanted the statuette not to be just a <dust-gatherer>. So after the awards ceremony it should have some practical and functional status in the prize- home. I remembered an anecdote which I had read or heard with regard to what happened to the famous Hollywood Oscar. Allegedly, in case of some artist it ended up as a doorstopper and it inspired me. So I designed the statuette in such a way as to make it clear that it could be used like that. I was also attracted by the perverse character of that idea, i.e. the degradation of the object.

make me! statuette

// organiser

competition organiser

The Design Festival is the oldest design festival in Poland, organized since 2007, dedicated to industrial design, graphic design, architecture and craftsmanship. The festival aspires to be the most opinion-forming design event in Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to the support of the City of Office and Ceramika - patron of the festival, each year the festival presents the most important trends and directions in global design. Every year, the festival is part of the make me! and the must have plebiscite awards the best projects and implementations of Polish and foreign designers. Design Festival is also a platform for meetings between creators, producers and distributors, it enables and encourages participation in projects focused on the business development of the Polish design industry. More info: www.lodzdesign.com Lodz Design Festival organiser:

Art Center is one of the largest International Art Centers in Poland. Established in 2005 in the historic post-factory complex in and since then over 260 cultural events have been carried out here. The center is made up of a group of professional, dynamic culture animators, promotion specialists and curators. The main festival center is Art_Inkubator spaces in at Tymienieckiego 3.

extended recruitment!:30.06.2020 more: makeme.lodzdesign.com

Prize pool: 65.000 PLN 🏆 (15.200 EUR) PARADYŻ AWARDS 60.000 PLN (14.200 EUR) funded by the Festival Patron – Ceramika Paradyż 1ST PRIZE 30.000 PLN (~7.000 EUR) 2ND PRIZE 20.000 PLN (~4.700 EUR) 3RD PRIZE 10.000 PLN (~2.300 EUR) and INTERPRINT SPECIAL PRIZE 5.000 PLN (~1.200 EUR)