The Ecodesign Award goes into its fourth round! You can submit your products, services and concepts until April 27. The competition awards innovative and sustainable products and concepts with an outstanding design quality. The award is presented by the German Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency and conducted by IDZ. All details at:

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The UX Design Awards honor outstanding design and user orientation in products, digital solutions and services. The competition offers a valuable communication tool for companies and agencies. All nominated product solutions will be presented in a special exhibition at IFA, the global trade show for consumer and home electronics in Berlin. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony during the fair. Submissions to the competition are free of charge. The deadline for registration is June 12, 2015. More details at:

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How does design thinking work? For what can design thinking be used? The designer Julia Leihener imparts how this method can be applied in form of a working culture.

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Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof
Columbiadamm 10
Bauteil D2
12101 Berlin

The UX Design Awards honor outstanding design and user orientation in products, digital solutions and services. The competition offers a valuable communication tool for companies and agencies. All nominated product solutions will be presented in a special exhibition at IFA, the global trade show for consumer and home electronics in Berlin. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony during the fair. Submissions to the competition are free of charge. The deadline for registration is June 12, 2015. More details at:

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Held in German

The UX Design Awards honor outstanding design and user orientation in products, digital solutions and services. The competition offers a valuable communication tool for companies and agencies. All nominated product solutions will be presented in a special exhibition at IFA, the global trade show for consumer and home electronics in Berlin. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony during the fair. Submissions to the competition are free of charge. The deadline for registration is June 12, 2015. More details at:

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The Support Day offers creatives and founders a plattform to conecct with investors and to gain an insight into the diverse opportunities to receive financial support.

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From June 11 to 14, IDZ presents the exhibition of winners and nominees of Federal German Ecodesign Award at Orangelab. The exhibition also invites to a lecture on “Sustainable Material Innovations” by Fraunhofer-Institut UMSICHT on June 11 from 11am to 1pm as well as to the panel discussion: “Can Fashion be Sustainable?” with Heiko Wunder (wunderwerk), Thorsten Rolfes (C&A), Prof. Friederike von Wedel-Parlow (ESMOD), Brigitte Zietlow (UBA), moderated by Magdalena Schaffrin. Free entry.

The annual design festival will take place at Kraftwerk Berlin from June 11 to 14. For the first time, it is organised by about:design.

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The exhibition "Makers Library Network" showcases projects of designers and studios who are part of the worldwide Maker Library Network association. Each Maker Library is a combination of three elements: a workplace, a library and a gallery, inviting visitors to read, observe and participate in the process of making.


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For the fourth time, Create Berlin presents Nachtschicht - Berlin Design Night: On the evening of June 12, design studios, agencies and showrooms open their doors and host events. It's a rare chance to see behind the curtains of numerous creative spaces in Berlin.

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At the IDZ design excursion in June 2015, the Archimedes Exhibitions GmbH will provide an insight into its working spaces and processes. The company develops and implements interactive experience platforms and exhibits, as well as scenographies and exhibitions. On the basis of projects and objects, Archimedes Exhibitions GmbH will illustrate how brands and themes can be experienced haptically and spatially. During a guided tour through the manufacture, the participants will learn where and how the interdisciplinary team conceptualizes and implements its ideas.

Berlin Showroom, like the city itself, embodies a spirit of relentless growth and constant evolution. As with previous editions, our mission is to showcase inspiring and innovative men’s wear ideas that influence the season’s fashion discourse on an international scale. Berlin Showroom was initiated by Projekt Zukunft/Berlin’s Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research. It is largely financed by the programme ‘Opening up New Markets’ and the EFRE fund. The joint presentation is realised by IDZ Designpartner Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Arne Eberle press+sales and the Regional initiative Projekt Zukunft. For futher information visit:

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