The candidates selected by the Commission are invited to a second round, where they present their work at the Swiss Design Awards public exhibition.
It is critically reputed and its relatively high money prize can exert a positive impact on designers' careers.
[4][6] The FCAA was initially under the control of the professional associations Schweizerischer Werkbund SWB and L'Oeuvre.
[7] From the 1960s, in the international context of social norm upheaval, the government began a process of reviewing cultural policy.
[9][10] In 1997, the government celebrated 100 years of Swiss Federal Design promotion with the publication Made in Switzerland.