Within the framework of its Spring 2021 Design Work Grants, Pro Helvetia has selected twenty projects for concept development, prototype development, production or project extension funding.

The awarded projects demonstrate a wide variety of fields: from product design, fashion, jewellery, industrial design, graphic design and robotics.

About the selected projects, the jury stated: «The unprecedent situation of the pandemic has brought many challenges but also many opportunities to the design world and the jury appreciates the way the young designers worked with so much conviction and will on their projects during this period. The jury was thrilled to see many exciting, new, colourful and creative applications. The challenge to select the most innovative projects from the unusually large number of highly professional applications was big.»

Concept development funding

• crisp industrial design, BioPen
• Fabien Roy, Robust Nest – portable newborn incubator
• Studio Eidola, Ocean Articulated
• Collective Swallow, Collection 08
• MYKO, Local Design, Local Fiber, Local Labor, Local Love
• Julia Seemann, Rebirth Project

Prototype development funding

• Studio Flitz, Curvetti Skateboard Trucks
• Meret Wacker, IMAGICLY
• Laura Beham, proto.TYPES
• Afrika Design Studio, Foodcoop Network
• CHEHAB Funktional accessories
• AATB, Supercontrol

Production funding

• dojo – the future of storytelling is a stick
• Mikafi, certified IoT coffee roasters for coffee selling businesses
• LARMA studio, first collection

Project extension funding

• Varia Instruments, The RDM40 – a high-end DJ mixer
• Bienvenue Studios
• Yan Jiang studio
• Joanne Guiraud
• Klaesi Holdener