Press release
Eight designers of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam were honoured with the Brandenburg 2025 Design Award
This is the first time that so many designers have been nominated for the Brandenburg Design Award. Twelve of them managed to convince the jury, which included eight members of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The awards ceremony took place on the 15th of December, 2025 at the Filmmuseum Potsdam.
With 150 submissions and 31 nominations, this year's Brandenburg Design Award once again showed how diverse design can be and what important topics creative professionals are dealing with. Projects in the fields of product design/industrial design, communication design, digital design, UX/UI and game design were honoured.
The majority of the twelve award-winning projects were (former) members of the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Four of the winners were supported by the 360° ZUKUNFT start-up service in the past. These are the winners from FHP:
- Maike Panz (Porzellanteekanne "tea please")
- Erik Wätke (Die Orangene Punkt Aktion der Südbahn MV)
- Designduo DAHLEDOHR (Lautsprecher "Doppelrohr")
- Florian Albrecht (Atelier Albrecht, Rauchurnen "zum Schluss")
- Benedict Dorndorf (Buchprojekt zum lesbischen Leben in der DDR "Der Sozialismus kennt keine Randgruppen")
- May-Britt Franzen (Bildbuch "Between Animals")
- Jona Pomerance (interaktives Flowchart "I want a better catastrophe")
- Lena Ringel (skulpturale Gefäße "FRAGMENTS")
The following FHP designers were also nominated:
- Betty Zepernick (Betty Beat Design "Kneipenchorfestival")
- Jannik Zernke ("Form(en) ohne Funktion")
- Monique Petermann ("Von unverputzten Fassaden und einem gebrochenen Schweigen")
- Magazin für zeitgenössische Fotografie "Haptik", bestehend aus mehreren Designer*innen und Fotograf*innen
- Birte Rauch / Samira Rehmert (Kurzfilm "Vater der Gurken")
- Felix Burau /Rou Sommermann / Hagar Guri (Topograph vO.O)
All the nominees' and winners' projects are on display at the Brandenburg Museum Potsdam's Kutschstall until the 21st of December, 2025. At this year's final 7Sachen Network Evening, you had the opportunity to meet some of the award winners, including Maike Panz (pictured in the photo) and Lena Ringel.
