In 2008, our belief in the vital importance of support for creativity, and the conditions for creativity to emerge and flourish, led to the creation of a design award saluting new projects responding to society’s current and future needs, based on a rigorous analysis of the object’s inherent purpose and meaning.

The Prix Émile Hermès is an international design award reflecting the core commitments of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, to promote expert skills and creativity.

The Prize aims to discover and encourage emerging design talent, reflecting the parallel aims of the Foundation’s programmes in the visual and performing arts. 

Inevitably, this major international Prize reflects considerations central to development in all its forms: the manufacturing and industrial expertise required to produce the designs entered, and most importantly of all, their environmental impact, in the context of mankind’s continuing quest for better quality of life. 

Register and submit your project 
before november 17, 2013

Time to yourself

For the third annual competition, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has chosen a theme reflecting our increasingly vital need for a moment of peace, some time out, a brief pause – a chance to escape the relentless activity, ideas and obligations of the super-highway of modern life.

 > Discover the theme for the new competition

 > Read the participation rules

 > Register and submit your project