The finalists in this year’s annual Rimowa Design Prize are definitely out to save the world. The seven prize-winning designer teams, chosen from different design schools all around Germany, wanted to comfort lonely old people, help the hearing-impaired speak, save the planet, make a mobile home for bees and, in one more whimsical case, have environmentally friendly furniture fly. The design competition was initiated by Cologne-based luxury luggage brand Rimowa in 2023 and aims to recognize the best young designers in Germany. There’s a prize pool of 55,000 euros and in the same way that Rimowa ’s parent company, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has run an annual fashion design competition, the German design contest is supposed to highlight new talent and inspire as well as raise the luggage brand’s profile.…