The James Dyson Award 2023 now is open for entries! This is an international design award that celebrates, encourages, and inspires the next generation of design engineers.

Open to current and recent design engineering students, this competition is run by the James Dyson Foundation, an international charity dedicated to encouraging young people to realize their engineering potential.

The brief is ’Design Something That Solves a Problem. Organizer is looking for designers who think differently, to create products that work better. This year James Dyson will also look for entries that address a sustainability issue or have been designed, sourced, or manufactured sustainably.

If you don’t want to work alone, or if you studied something else but have a brilliant idea you want to share, you can still enter as part of a team.

You can enter as many projects as you want, and you can enter your design even if it’s at the latter stage of the design process or is already on the market. At all times, the intellectual property of the project will remain the entrants.

Projects will be judged on the strength of the entry, not just the invention itself. You’ll need to communicate the significance of your invention. But also how the product was developed and how you reached your final design. Demonstrating an iterative, trial-and-error approach will serve you well.

Sir James Dyson will select (at his discretion) the international JDA winner, the international JDA runners-up, and the sustainability winner.