Deadline for initial design submissions is Aug 31. Winning designers would be announced on Nov 11.
Launched in 2020, the annual Polestar Design Contest challenges aspiring designers, both professional and students, to create exciting visions for future Polestar concepts. The designs do not need to be a car. But they do need to be a Polestar.
Uniquely, the Polestar Design Contest features designers from Polestar coaching shortlisted participants one-on-one, a modelling team that provides digital modelling support to finalists, and hard model production of the winning designs.
This year, Polestar plans to produce the winning design as a full-size 1:1 scale model, expected to be showcased on the Polestar stand at Auto Shanghai in April 2023.
“For a design to be presented on the world stage in much the same way as one of Polestar’s own concept cars is a money-can’t-buy opportunity for any designer," said Polestar design chief Maximilian Missoni.
"We want to encourage, support, and celebrate innovative design, and the people who realise it. What better way to do that than to present a full-size model (unless their design is larger than a car, then it would be produced as a scale model) their creation centre stage at one of the largest automotive shows in the world?”
Following the previous two themes of ‘Pure’ and ‘Progressive’, the 2022 Contest brief is to design a Polestar that is the antithesis of the classic idiom of high-consumption performance routed in the 20th century. It must visually show a new form of "Performance" and tell the advanced technical story that enables this in a sustainable way.
Polestar Design Contest 2020 winner.
Since the start, the Polestar Design Contest has featured a variety of vehicles and cutting edge concepts, and draws entries from students and professional designers across the globe.
The designs have previously included a car which tackles local pollution with on-board and externally visible air filters, an electric-and-helium airship, prosthetic springboard blades for walking and a luxury yacht that exuded Polestar’s minimalistic design tonality.
