an international design contest
for young designers
at the Łódź Design Festival!

2021

This year's jury consisting of Maja Ganszyniec, Boaz Katz, Joanna Jo Jurga, Maurizio Burrato, Jerzy Porębski oraz Michał Piernikowski selected 26 final projects from the submitted applications. All final projects will be on display from May 14th at the unique contest exhibition as part of the 15th Łódź Design Festival.

make me! 2021 finalists

  1. Marlena Norowska - Obvara – ceramic urns (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/obwara-urny-ceramiczne
    The make me! Paradyż Award in the amount of PLN 10,000, funded by the festival partner Ceramika Paradyż.
  2. Christine Oehme - Werkelküche (Germany) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/werkelkueche
  3. Boey Wang - Immeasurable Range (Kingdom of the Netherlands) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/immeasurable-range
  4. Boey Wang - Haptics of Cooking (Kingdom of the Netherlands) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/haptics-of-cooking
  5. Audrone Drungilaite for EMKO - Linen Rug CHAOS (Lithuania) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/linen-rug-chaos
  6. Daria Wypiór - Show where your nose, ear, vulva (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/show-where-your-nose-ear-vulva
    The make me! Paradyż Award in the amount of PLN 30,000, funded by the festival partner Ceramika Paradyż.
  7. Jana Potiron - Do not disturb my coffee zen (Slovakia) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/do-not-disturb-my-coffee-zen
  8. Emilie Burfeind - Sneature – waste based footwear (Germany) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/sneature-waste-based-footwear
  9. Callum Ferguson - Plastibank (United Kingdom) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/plastibank
  10. Nicole Scheller - IP/PRIVACY (Germany) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/ipprivacy
  11. Julia Kędzierska - bread in common (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/bread-in-common
  12. Marta Rzepińska - Bubel (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/bubel
  13. Dominika Gacka and Julia Piekarska (REST textile studio) - Green Yarns Lab (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/green-yarns-lab
  14. Austeja Platukyte - ZERO WASTE | experimental packaging from algae-based material (Lithuania) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/zero-waste-experimental-packaging-from-algae-based-material
  15. Joanna Krokosz - Uni – versatile rain jacket (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/uni-uniwersalna-kurtka-przeciwdeszczowa
  16. Adrienn Veres - Infinity – recycled plastic chair (Hungary) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/infinity-recycled-plastic-chair
  17. Magdalena Bojko-Michalak - TOTEMS – an intergenerational game (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/totemy-gra-dla-wielu-pokolen
  18. Magda Dziewit - Huddle (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/huddle
  19. Szymon Zakrzewski - capitalist toys (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/kapitalistyczne-zabawki
  20. Bartosz Brylewski - How to re-invent the craft? (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/how-to-re-invent-the-craft
  21. Dennis Teichert - Wire (Germany) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/wire
  22. Mateusz Sipiora - Supersonic KickScooter (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/hulajnoga-supersonic
  23. Zofia Hernas - Malu – children’s ECG Holter (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/malu-childrens-ecg-holter
    The make me! Interprint Award in the amount of PLN 10,000, funded by its sponsor INTERPRINT Polska.
  24. Adrienn Király and Bálint Szalai (itthon. studio) - itthon. (Hungary) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/itthon
  25. Natalia Gajo and Zuzanna Walkiewicz - Opniaki – portable forest playground (Poland) https://makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/opniaki-portable-forest-playground The make me! Paradyż Award in the amount of PLN 20,000, funded by the festival partner Ceramika Paradyż.
  26. Barbara Olejarczyk (Krzyżówka) - Let’s play colours (Poland) makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/finalisci-2008-2/2021/zagrajmy-w-kolory


The prizes awarded will amount to EUR ~15.500! Thanks to the 15-year support of Ceramika Paradyż, also this year the best young designers will receive financial awards make me! Paradyż Awards with a total value of EUR ~13.200! A special Interprint Award of EUR ~2.200 will be provided by its Sponsor INTERPRINT Polska.

Winners will be announced May 14 at. 6 p.m during the award ceremony which will be broadcasted online free of charge and without registration here: lodzdesign.com/ldf2021-en-gb/live-en-gb, on our Youtube channel: youtube.com/user/lodzartcenter and on our Facebook page: facebook.com/Lodz.Design.