National Rail Design Competition

Entries to the UID Design Award & Competition can be both concept stage or realized area Indian Railways. Projects can be nominated which are in the area of Spaces(special needs access), Vending machine (ticketing/food vending), railway design (Locomotive), Interior berth design for boggie,Wayfinder/kiosk solutions.For concept stage entries, the brief is to design a new product, project or solution that implements as many of the following elements:
1. Design for a better future 2035.
2. Design Spaces and solutions that create a better future.
3. Designs that provide additional utility to consumers and customers and visual Aesthetics,
4. Design for people, design for society, design for value.
5. Make your designs original and different.
6. Design locomotives,solutions and services which satisfies people's needs, let your creations reflect your aesthetic taste.
7. Your entry should fit one of the design award categories.

Unlike other design competitions, you will notice that our design brief is very new in the area of geographic and demographic way.; You can use any material, you can use any technology, you can design for the future, as long as it adds positive value to the Railway Systems. We do not expect a single design to change the world, we need millions of little incremental designs, which when put together improves the quality of life. We especially wanted to make the brief open and unrestrictive in order not to limit your imagination, as well as to recognize new Ideas towards Rail Design;

The ultimate aim of the UID Rail Design Competition is to increase the quality of travel and travel experience in the Indian Railways system. We believe this mission is highly achievable if we improve all products, services, architectures and systems around us with respect to railways. To improve all products, services, architectures and systems we need to complete two major tasks. First, we must put a spotlight on the very young designers and upcoming designers/architects; to create an awareness for good design practices and principles so that it increases the demand for good designs. When the demand for good design increases, the companies and governments who provide the products, services, architectures and systems will be obliged to do better. Furthermore, we must recognize, celebrate and congratulate good design and their designers; we must award the very best designers, brands and architects; doing so will make the design profession more prestigious, and will create a different type of incentive for designers, architects and brands to come up with superior designs that improve the quality of life. We must create ways to highlight innovation, technology and design in order to achieve our aim of creating a better world.

Technical requirements and aspects of presentation are not included in the brief, as the brief is the scope of the competition. However, please check our entry instructions page in order to understand the technical requirements such as image dimensions, and also access further guidelines on text.

Create new age designs for Kiosk/vending machines, access for special abled people/design appropriate products for people who can complete their tasks independently.

Create Service/solution for railway information systems eg. entertainment system, real time train tracking/finding platforms. Services like finding porter,cab,food/catering,attendants etc.Creating design for mobile,Kiosk,AR,wayfinding etc.

Create a future of locomotives.Bogie design berth/toilets/commercial kitchen on rails.

Look at the future scenario and create a better tomorrow for rails keeping and creating the scenario for 2035.