Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Designs 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Designs from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One paper will receive the award. The paper will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Joshua M. Pearce.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Designs from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in Designs in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

The winner will be announced on the journal website in April 2024.

Kind regards,
Designs Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Designs, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Designs Travel Award for 2019. The 2019 Designs Travel Award has been granted to Mr. Miel Sharf and Mr. Leo de Waal.

Mr. Miel Sharf is a Ph.D. student from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He will receive 300 CHF to help support travel to attend the IEEE CDC 2019 conference in Nice, France in December.

Mr. Miel Sharf current research interests can be trisected into basic questions related to passivity and energy-based nonlinear control, designing secure multi-agent systems, which are not susceptible to faults and malicious attacks, and designing data-driven algorithms which regulate networks without the need for an exact model for the network’s operation.

Mr. Leo de Waal is a D.Phil student within the Special Structures Group at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. He will receive 300 CHF to help support travel to attend the ASME 2019 IDETC/CIE Conference in California, USA in August.

Mr. Leo de Waal now focuses on geometry, specifically how geometry can be implemented to create superior energy absorption devices. Using origami techniques, he has proposed a novel tube which can be graded to provide a tunable stiffness throughout the crushing process. The ability to create a 3D structure from a 2D sheet alleviates many of the manufacturing difficulties associated with manufacturing functionally graded structures.

It was a difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the award and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi

Designs (ISSN 2411-9660) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, published quarterly by MDPI.

The competition for the 2020 Designs Travel Award will be open for applications this September. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/designs for more information closer to this date.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Designs, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Designs Travel Award for 2018.

The inaugural Travel Award has been granted to Mr. David Schmelzeisen, a PhD student from Institut für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He will receive 500 CHF to help support travel to attend the ISWC 2018 conference in Singapore this autumn.

Mr. David Schmelzeisen has studied Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. he started to focus on textiles and textile engineering and received the MSc degree in Textile Engineering, before he supported research in the field of smart textiles at Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University. Furthermore, he developed electronic sensor systems for the integration into textiles at ETH Zurich. During his PhD he started researching on textile welding and production technologies for smart textiles. His current research topic is 4D textiles.

It was a difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the award and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner for his accomplishments. We are proud to support the young scientist and wish him further success in his career.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi

Designs (ISSN 2411-9660) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal, published quarterly by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

The competition for 2019 Designs Travel Award will be open for applications this September. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/designs for more information closer to this date.