The Fondation D’Entreprise Hermès has recently launched the 2016 competition — themed: Play — for its Prix Émile Hermès international design award. Professionals younger than 40 and Students in their final year of study, from any part of the world, are invited to enter individually or in teams of up to five people. In the first phase of the competition, all selected finalists will receive funding from the Foundation to produce a prototype of their design. In the second phase, three winners will be selected and awarded a total of 90,000 Euro, of which 50,000 Euro are reserved for the 1st prize, 25,000 Euro for the 2nd prize and 15,000 Euro for the 3rd prize.

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The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès starts accepting submissions for its 2014 Prix Émile Hermès International Design Award competition on 1st September 2013 and invites young professional designers to join. For its third annual competition — themed “Time to yourself” — the Fondation has chosen a theme reflecting our increasingly vital need for a moment of peace, some time out, a brief pause – a chance to escape the relentless activity, ideas and obligations of the super-highway of modern life. Three (3) finalists will receive a total of 90,000 Euro, from which 50,000 Euro are reserved for the 1st prize!

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The Prix Émile Hermès is going international. The award is designed to support innovation, and promote young talents whose forward-looking creations reflect evolving societies and lifestyles worldwide. Every three years, the Prix Émile Hermès invites young professional designers from all over the world (from final-year students to age 40) to design the objects of tomorrow, on a given theme. The Prix Émile Hermès was created in 2008 to foster creativity in young designers by offering them the chance to explore a specific theme as the starting-point for an original, vital contribution to the aspirations of today’s society.

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