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Swiss Design Awards 2027

Bundesamt für Kultur (Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland) — Switzerland
Graphic Design / Product/Industrial Design / UX/UI Design competition visual

The Schweizer Designwettbewerb, publicly branded as the Swiss Design Awards, is Switzerland's federal design competition, open to Swiss citizens or Switzerland-resident designers working in graphic design, product design, fashion and textile design, photography, scenography and mediation, design research, or media and interaction design. The competition runs in two rounds: entrants first submit a dossier, and the commission's selected applicants are invited to a second round where they present their work as part of the public Swiss Design Awards exhibition, held annually in Basel during Art Basel each June. Seventeen prizes of CHF 25,000 each are awarded.

Submissions open
Oct 23, 2026
Deadline
Dec 3, 2026
Entry fee
No entry fee (per the 2026 terms); entry is a digital dossier via gate.bak.admin.ch
Award / prize
About 17 Swiss Design Awards of CHF 25,000 each; finalists invited to the second round receive CHF 1,500 towards the exhibition in Basel (2026 terms; 2027 terms not yet published)
Audience
Open
Submission format
Digital dossier via gate.bak.admin.ch (FOC E-ID required): one PDF, A4 landscape, max. 10 MB and 11 pages including the official title page, presenting completed projects and a biography

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