Materials for Product Development, Design and Architecture

For the second time, Messe Frankfurt will be presenting the Design Plus prize at the Material Vision, trade fair and conference (22 to 23 November 2007 in Frankfurt am Main), the theme of which will be materials for product development, design and architecture.

With their partners, the German Design Council, the trade-fair company will be honouring products, which feature forward-looking materials, wither in their manufacture or production processes.

Participation in the Material Vision is explicitly not required for participation in the Design Plus competition.

Dr. Michael Peters, Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt said: "The aim of exhibitions, conferences and competitions like Design Plus is to provide an ever more interdisciplinary trade audience with access to new developments and content in the field of design.

The Design Plus Material Vision competition, which is open to international entries, is the materials innovation sector's only exclusively application-orientat ed competition.

This means that the prize is not awarded just to the material but to the product, which is manufactured using new materials and manufacturing techniques."