iF Design

We support our award winners by involving them directly in the iF public relations work. The press releases concerning the iF competitions as well as images of the award-winning products are sent to over 1,000 international addresses.

An international expert jury commissioned by iF discusses and evaluates all submitted entries in a dedicated, critical and constructive way.

As part of our new service offering, the jury sessions for all our awards will take place on the same date. Some 100 design experts from all over the world will come together in October 2011 to select the winners of the 2012 iF design awards in a jury session that will last for several days.

From February 2012 onwards, there will be one awards ceremony for all iF deign awards; the iF design awards night. This glamorous and exciting event will kick off the new design year and will support the exchange between experts, designers and entrepreneurs, marketing specialists and architects, representatives of the press and other communicators.

With our new exhibition concept, we will guarantee even more public presence for our iF award winners: all award-winning entries from all our iF design awards will be presented together in one show at the Hanover trade fair. This exhibition will be run in parallel to CeBIT and up to two other trade fairs in spring. This will reach an audience of more than 100,000 visitors.


Additioally, Hamburg's new Harbor City will be a new and spectacular stage for this exhibition. All award-winning entries from the most recent iF design awards will also be presented here for up to nine months each year. Besides representatives from the design industries and the press, this exhibition will reach a broad general audiance since the Harbor City will be a major tourist attraction.

You will have the opportunity to present your work in parallel with design trade fairs and events worldwide by participating in our international iF design exhibitions. You can choose wether you want to present your iF award-winning products or wether you want to show diffrent works from your portfolio that are targeted at a particular market or audience.

In the iF yearbooks, which document the iF competitions, you will find current information on relevant design subjects. The iF yearbooks present current developments in design in the form of a snapshot and serve as a reliable source of information or as a comprehensive reference for people interested in design.

With adverts in the iF yearbooks - the publications documenting each single iF competition - you will reach a worldwide, design-interested audience. You can either place an advert in one of the iF yearbooks or you can buy one of our reasonably-priced advertising packs.

We support the award winners of the iF competitions in communicating their success by offering efficient advertising tools such as certificates, the iF award winner logo, a print template for iF stickers and the iF winners manual, a collection of text modules for press releases. Additionally, iF award winners can place an advert in one of the iF yearbooks.

With the iF ranking, we offer iF award winners an option to communicate their successful work. The iF ranking is based on the number of awards won in iF competitions: the more awards you have won as a participant in one of the iF competitions, the higher your iF ranking will be.

With 3.5 million page views per year, the iF website is one of the most popular design platforms on the Internet. Visitors from over 100 countries inform themselves about the iF competitions on the iF website. All award-winning entries are published in the iF online exhibition with no time limit, and with up to two images and a description.

The best of the best will even be included in the iF gold selection. Their outstanding designs will be honored with an iF gold award. The iF gold award trophy was designed by Herbert Schultes and will be presented during the iF design awards night.

You can use the design news to publish your own news and events. This platform offers you the opportunity to communicate with other people interested in design.

We have invited and impelented a great number of design events over the last few years, including the first 'universal design conference' in Hanover (2006) and the meeting of highly acclaimed German designers at Lake Starnberg in Bavaria.