James Dyson Award 2012:

The James Dyson Award is an international student design award running in 18 countries, also in Austria. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to encourage the next generation of design engineers to be creative, challenge and invent.

"Design something that solves a problem"

The James Dyson Award is open to product design, industrial design and engineering from university level students (or graduates within 4 years of graduation). The James Dyson Award will be given to a single participant or a team whose work will perfectly prove the ability to think differently and to design a problem solving product.

The James Dyson Award winner will receive the amount of 10.000 Pound Sterling or the according amount in his/hers local currency. The same amount will be awarded to the winner's university faculty. The James Dyson Award winners will be announced on November 8, 2012.

A panel of leading designers, engineers and design critics in each of the 18 participating countries shortlist the top ten entries and name the national winners. The Austrian jury consists of Lilli Hollein, curator, journalist and co-founder of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Michael Hausenblas, design editor at Der Standard, and Eberhard Schrempf, CEO of Creative Industries Styria.