Entries Open for DAME Design Award

Entries for the METSTRADE DAME Design Award are now being accepted. The DAME Design Award provides a unique and universally recognized benchmark for the marine equipment industry. It does so by highlighting the merits of excellent design in all its many facets, from aesthetics, functionality, and innovation, through to integration, practicality of use, price-to-performance ratio, and presentation. With METSTRADE’s focus on sustainability, entrants must also explain how environmental impact reduction has been considered across the whole product design.

Entries will be judged across seven categories spanning the sectors represented at METSTRADE before an eventual winner is chosen. The assessment will be made by an experienced jury of eight, comprised of leading boat, interior, and industrial designers, as well as user experts. Renowned yacht designer, Andre Hoek, will chair the Jury.

All DAME nominated products benefit from a high-profile presence on a special showcase within the heart of the METSTRADE show floor, the world’s largest marine equipment event. A final selection of seven Category Winners and the eventual DAME Award Overall Winner is made from these nominations, with announcements made at the flagship Breakfast Briefing on the first day of the show. The DAME Jury also awards a series of Special Mentions and an Environmental Design Winner at its discretion if an exemplar product is identified.

The € 150.00 registration fee per product payable to enter the DAME Awards is donated to a charity nominated by the METSTRADE Exhibition Committee. The beneficiary of this year’s proceeds will be the World Sailing Trust, the official charity affiliated to World Sailing, the global governing body of the sport. It was established in 2018 and works on projects within two focus areas – People and Planet, promoting participation and access to sailing and safeguarding the world’s waters for future generations. Current projects include greater gender diversity in sailing, carbon fiber circularity, boat and component recycling, and the development of social responsibility and sustainability awareness among young sailors.