iF material award 2009

The award is a competition for innovative materials, products and processes.

Description
The iF material award provides an excellent platform for important new developments from the world of materials through the public jury at the CeBIT exhibition "design driving innovation", the exhibition of all awarded entries at the exhibition "material TRENDS" presented at the Hannover Industrial Fair, the well visited online exhibition on the iF Website, the printed documentation of the award as well as the accompanying communication work by iF and the advertising materials provided to the winners.
The iF material award 2009 will furthermore lay a special focus on ecology and sustainability through a newly created evaluation criteria, to emphasize the importance of this topic.

Jury
The selection of prizewinners will be made by a panel of material and design experts.

Prize
All successful competition entries will be awarded an iF seal of design excellence. Prizewinners can use the award in their own PR and communications.

Entry Fee
Early Bird (December 19, 2008): 150 EUR
Regular (January 16, 2009): 200 EUR
Last Chance (January 30, 2009): 250 EUR

Entries
Materials category: sample of material
Products category: Description of material
Processes category: Description of the production process

Submission Address
Kühne + Nagel AG & Co. KG
iF material award 2008
Entry ID: 151-xxxxx
Karlsruher Straße 4
30880 Laatzen
Germany

Timetable
Jury-exhibition at CeBIT: March 3-8, 2009
Announcement of the results: until March 13, 2009
Exhibition "material TRENDS": April 20-24, 2009
Award ceremony: April 20, 2009

Organizer
iF International Forum Design

Official Website
http://www.ifdesign.de/awards_material_index_e