Good Design Award | Good Design Awards

The GOOD DESIGN AWARD is a social movement that enriches people's lives, industries, and society through design. Since its inception in 1957, it has gained widespread support along with its logo, the G Mark.

The Good Design Award targets various things that are closely related to people, such as products, buildings, software, systems, and services. Whether tangible or intangible, anything that people build for a certain ideal and purpose will be considered a design, and its quality will be evaluated and commended.

In an increasingly complex society, design has become an indispensable existence for solving problems and discovering new problems, and people's expectations for design are gradually rising. The Good Design Award helps people discover the various possibilities in design through evaluation and rich publicity and promotion methods, expands the fields where design can correspond and be used, and is committed to a rich society where everyone can enjoy a creative life.

Concept of the Good Design Award

The Good Design Award is not a system for evaluating the quality of design, but a mechanism for obtaining new "discoveries" through review, "sharing" them with the public together with G Mark, and then leading to the next "creation". The Good Design Award proposes five fundamental themes that people must often face as the "concept of the Good Design Award".

Humanity: Creativity for things and objects
Honesty: Insight into modern society
Innovation: Imagination for the future
Esthetics: Imagination for a rich life and culture
Ethics: Thinking about society and the environment

Award-winning logo [G Mark]

The "G Mark" is the logo for winners of the Good Design Award and a communication tool that connects society and design. It was designed by Yusaku Kamekura, a representative Japanese graphic designer, in 1957. The logo has a very high recognition rate in Japan.

Collaborative Design Award

As one of the four major design awards in the world, the Good Design Award continues to play an active role in the promotion of international design. The concept of the award and the review mechanism built over 60 years have been recognized by design-related professionals around the world. Using the knowledge and experience of operating its own awards, it assisted governments or organizations in Thailand, India, Singapore, Turkey and Indonesia in establishing design awards and established a recommendation system for mutual exemption from one review.

Good Design Award Application Process

Applications are accepted in early April each year, and the Good Design Award for that year is determined after the first and second reviews. Good Design Best100 Presentation and Special Award reviews determine nominations for Good Focus Awards, Good Design Gold Award, and Good Design Grand Award. After the award announcement in mid-October, the winning works are introduced to the public through various award promotion activities and exhibitions, and the winner of the Good Design Grand Award is determined at the award ceremony and grand prize selection meeting. The award yearbook is issued in March of the following year.