This openness is also to characterise the category of Collage in the Marianne Brandt contest. The submitted works have to be presented in material form. Works which can only be shown on screen or in overhead projection cannot be considered. If spatial elements are integrated, a maximum depth of 10 cm must not be exceeded. The format is limited to 70 x 100 cm.
Works have to be signed and separately marked as originals or part of a limited edition.
Each participant may submit up to three pictures. As a consequence of the dominant Bauhaus trend from 1923 onward to combine art and industry, designs tended predominantly toward production in series. Some of these designs were indeed produced in great numbers, e.g. by the lamp manufacturer Kandem of Leipzigi. Even today, firms such as Alessi or Tecnolumen carry products based on the designs of Marianne Brandt. Her preferred medium was metal design, yet furniture, ceramic vessels and weavings are also a part of her oeuvre.