About

The IMDAward is aimed at all apprentices at a design school in Switzerland who are training to become an Interactive Media Designer EFZ. Eligible to participate are apprentices who have been completing an apprenticeship as an Interactive Media Designer since August 1, 2019 and are in their 3rd or 4th year of apprenticeship at the time of registration. Graduates who completed their apprenticeship before August 1, 2023 (apprenticeship began in 2018) can participate up to one year after completing their training.

This year, students from the field of Interactive Media Design only, are eligible.

The online jury consists of three carefully selected experts within a category. A jury member can judge in several categories. Teachers working in the field of interactive media design cannot be part of the jury.

The jury defines design as the result of a development process that utilizes the potential along the entire value chain and thus generates significant added value.

All products, projects, research work, services and theses that have been created at school, in a teaching environment or in leisure time and convincingly present innovative solutions through a design-oriented development and design process are eligible.

The binding evaluation criteria for all categories include:

– Innovation content

– Added value, benefit and impact

– Quality of execution

– Quality of design

These criteria form the basis for a comprehensive evaluation of the submitted works, supplemented by subject-specific criteria for the respective categories.

The winner (gold, silver, bronze) will be announced during the opening event of the Swiss Interactive Media Design Days on March 13, 2024 and subsequently published online on March 14, 2024 (with no legal recourse).

All award winners (Gold, Silver, Bronze) receive a cash prize and a trophy.

Projects are accepted in the following categories:

– App

– Website

– Animation

– Video

– Narrative Visualisation

– Type on Screen

All products, projects, research work, services and theses that have been created at school, in a teaching environment or in leisure time and convincingly present innovative solutions through a design-oriented development and design process are eligible.