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From January 30 to February 13, 2025, an exhibition of design collections by current Czech Design Award winners was hosted at Prague's Clam-Gallas Palace. The Czech Design Award Winner 2024 exhibition presented an award-winning selection from the current work of young designers and studios who showcased their creations to visitors of the Czech Design Week festival last September. Alongside the exhibition, the awards unveiled a new redesign, which includes the launch of applications for all creators who wish to nominate their work for the Czech Design Award this year.
At the Clam-Gallas Palace, the Czech Design Award Winner 2024 exhibition will present the work of young designers and studios that was awarded the Czech Design Award last year as part of the Czech Design Week festival.
Specifically, the exhibition will feature collections and works awarded in six categories, including, for instance, conceptual jewelry by Klára Valušková from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava, who was named Discovery of the Year. Also on display will be a collection from the studio besiidka, by Nikola Chromečková and David Hotárek, who received a Special Recognition from the Czech Design Award jury for their imaginative fusion of product and food design.
The six award winners from last year's Czech Design Week festival will be complemented by vases by Veronika Majerčíková, a student of the Experimental Design Studio at Bratislava's VŠVU, which straddle the line between applied art and object. Majerčíková received the Czech Design Award last October as part of the partner Bratislava Design Week.
The exhibition will take place at the Clam-Gallas Palace from January 30 to February 13 and loosely follows up on the accompanying New Generation exhibition, which filled the first floor of the palace last September during Czech Design Week with a selection of works by the youngest generation of Czech and Slovak designers and artists. The Clam-Gallas Palace is one of the capital's prominent landmarks and a gem of Prague's Baroque architecture, having also undergone extensive renovation two years ago.
Award Redesign and Application Launch
The Czech Design Award was established to support talented creators across all design sectors, as part of the Czech Design Week festival. Starting with this year's 12th edition of the awards, the festival organizers are launching open applications for all designers, students, as well as studios and brands who wish to nominate their work for the Czech Design Award. In previous years, award recipients were primarily selected from among the individual exhibitors at the festival.
Applications will be launched concurrently with the opening of the exhibition at the Clam-Gallas Palace, on January 30. They will be open until the end of May this year via the form on czechdesignaward.cz. The nominated works will then be presented as part of this year's Czech Design Week festival in September in Prague, and the winners of the current edition will also be announced during the festival. As in previous years, the winners will be decided by an expert jury composed of designers, design and art theorists, and representatives of cultural media.
Among other benefits, Czech Design Award winners receive an automatic invitation to exhibit their collections at the next edition of the Czech Design Week festival and are awarded a physical prize in the form of a designer vase. The award was designed by František Jungvirt and produced at the AJETO glassworks in Lindava.
As part of the redesign, the launch of applications is accompanied by an update to the overall visual identity of the Czech Design Award and its website. The author is graphic designer David Novák (Dacid), a graduate of Prague's UMPRUM and co-founder of the graphic education association SMYK. He was also behind the redesign of the entire Czech Design Week festival last year. Like the festival, the Czech Design Award also uses a new logotype, created by designer Viktor Mizera, who currently works at Displaay studio.
