# Rotterdam Design Award

The Rotterdam Design Award (Rotterdamse Designprijs) was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the Kunsthal, and afterwards in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The winners were selected by an international jury during this exhibition, and were announced at the end of the exhibition. The winners received an amount of € 20,000, which could be spent freely.

## History

The prize was organized annually from 1993 to 1997, after which it became a biennial prize. No edition took place in 2005.
In the first years the prize was awarded to individual products of designers, architects and other participants in the field of design. Since 2007 the conceptual vision and performance in the field of the designer became its major criterion.
The awarded was inaugurated by the Rotterdamse Kunststichting, where Christine de Baan was director of the Rotterdam Design Prize from 1993 tot 2000. In 2007 Thimo te Duits & Gerard Forde managed the award and wrote the catalog. Towards the end in 2011 the Rotterdam design prize was organized by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Premsela, Dutch Institute for Design and Fashion.

## Award winners 1993–2013

| Jaar | Winnaar juryprijs | Eervolle vermeldingen | Winnaar publieksprijs | Juryleden |
| 1993 | Roelof Mulder | Marijke Bruggink, Marlie Witteveen, Hans Kappetein Herman Hermsen Roelof Mulder Frans van Nieuwenborg ninaber/peters/krouwel | (geen) | Wim Crouwel, chairman Sebastien de Diesbach Denis Santachiara Deyan Sudjic |
| 1994 | Diek Zweegman BRS Premsela Vonk | Anthon Beeke Nel Linssen Bureau Mijksenaar Frans Oosterhof Maarten Struijs | Pieter van Gendt | Wim Crouwel (chairman) Peter Dormer Denis Santachiara Tucker Viemeister |
| 1995 | Jan Erik Baars, Caroline Brouwer Jan Paul van der Voet Philips Corporate Design | Huibert Groenendijk Ruud-Jan Kokke Karel Martens Lola Pagola Erik Terlouw | Max Kisman | Wim Crouwel (chairman) Alfredo Arribas Peter Dormer April Greiman |
| 1996 | Bob van Dijk/Studio Dumbar | Arian Brekveld Opera ontwerpers i.s.m. Le Cri Néerlandais Peter van der Veer, Thomas Paulen & Martijn Wegman Jan Velthuizen, Ronald Wall | Edouard Boehtlingk | John Thackara (chairman) Paola Antonelli Alfredo Arribas Rick Poynor |
| 1997 | Maatschappij voor Oude en Nieuwe Media | Jeroen Vinken for 'Twinn' vloerbekleding Jan Konings and Jurgen Bey for 'Straatmeubilair informatiepunt Barsingerhorn' Willem van Zoetendaal, Koos Breukel and Michael Matthews for 'Hyde' book Rens Holslag, Hans Rijpkema, Pieter Rookmaker, Leonard Verhoef and Jochen Vorderegger for 'ETCS MMI' interface for train drivers' Irma Boom for 'SHV-book' | Marcel Wanders forh 'Knotted Chair' | John Thackara (chairman) Helen Drutt English Ingo Maurer Rick Poynor |
| 1999 | NL Architects Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaase and Mark Linneman) for heat transfer station | Zwarts & Jansma Architecten en Hans Muller for KW 4–20 underpass at highway A4 near Leidschendam | Erik Jan Kwakkel, Peter van de Jagt Arnout Visser with 'Functional Tiles' | John Thackara (chairman) Karrie Jacobs Sarah Lerfel Peter Noever |
| 2001 | Jop van Bennekom and Erik Wong for the design the Forum magazine | ? | ? | Miuccia Prada Bruce Mau Olivier Zahm Gert Staal |
| 2003 | Hella Jongerius for fabric 'Repeat' | Archis (tijdschrift) | ? | Ineke Schwartz (chairman) Hans-Ulrich Obrist Ellen Lupton Konstantin Grcic |
| 2007 | Thonik | ? | ? | Bas Heijne (chairman) Fernando Brizio Didier Krzentowski Gareth Williams |
| 2009 | Studio Joost Grootens | ? | Gorilla | Peter van Ingen (voorzitter) ? |
| 2011 | Rietveld Landscape | ? | Vlaamsch Broodhuys | Fredric Baas (chairman) Susan Szenasy Sebastian Wrong Lars Müller |
| 2013 | Reframing Studio and Parnassia Groep for 'temstem’ app | | Edenspiekermann, ProRail, STBY NS Reizigers for Dynamic boarding data at the platform | Max Bruinsma (chairman) Caroline Baumann Edwin Heathcote Virginia Tassinari |