12th International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea 2016 invites designers to apply design works related to the theme of water. Water is an essential resource, connected with many activities and inextricably tied to the life of European man. Contestants are asked to an element/elements of life and work on water which is/are an original and distinctive feature of a place in one of the countries within the purview of the competition, possibly studying a local know-how or exceptional tradition of that place, and then, using this object of interest as inspiration, to conceive an original item of contemporary design.

The competition is open to all designers born in CEI member states (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine) and extended to designers born in Estonia, Germany, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania and Turkey as well. The best design works will be awarded and the selected will be shown in the competition’s final exhibition in Trieste in September 2016.

The competition deadline is 15th July 2016. The entry is free.
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