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The World Architecture Festival is an annual festival and awards ceremony dedicated to the architecture and development industry. Alongside the awards programme, attendees can find keynotes and seminars across two stages, architecture city tours, an exhibition of high-end manufacturers, fringe events, parties and more. There will be 48 speakers, 550 live finalist's presentations, 146 judges, […]
The annual Golden Pin Design Award 2019 Forum returns this December 5, staging talks from 4 international design luminaries at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei). The theme of this year’s forum is ‘Design & Sustainability’, following on from last year’s forum that was themed ‘Design & Social Responsibility’. Hosted by the […]
GIDA is an international design prize driven by globalization, specialization and market orientation. The prize is created to discover future design, inspire future life and empower future cities by exploring the Chinese concept of “harmony” and exchanging the global experience of good designs featuring intelligence and sustainable development. Website WDO Member: XIDI
The German Design Awards directly contributes to the overall commercial success. Prizes will only be awarded to projects that truly represent pioneering contributions to the German and international design landscape. The highly esteemed, international jury guarantees this. The German Design Awards identifies and presents unique design trends: a competition that advances the design-oriented scene. Website […]
The Service Design Award, founded by the Service Design Network in 2015, is the most prestigious award honoring service design excellence from around the world. This year we are celebrating our fifth anniversary and we are proud of our previous winners and finalists who helped us to stay true in our vision to make service […]
For the seventh time green products and concepts can be submitted to the international Green Product Award. This year, manufacturers, design studios & agencies are invited to submit their solutions withinour new theme"Future Village". The award submissions fill the sustainablehouse of the future, where eco-friendlyliving and working is made tangible -in the categories architecture, bathroom, […]
2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), one of the longest running and most prestigious design awards programs in existence. Each year, thousands of entries are submitted by design teams across the globe, making IDEA one of the largest and most widely anticipated annual awards programs in the world. Website […]
The 2020 Human City design Award is a competition of Design for sustainable cities, towards a harmonious relationship between human beings and the environment. Website
The DFA Design for Asia Awards is the flagship programme of the Hong Kong Design Centre, celebrating design excellence and acknowledging outstanding designs with Asian perspectives. Since its launch in 2003, the DFA Design for Asia Awards has been a stage upon which design talents and corporations can showcase their design projects internationally. Website WDO […]
The Sir Misha Black Awards Committee for Distinguished Services to Design Education, has joined the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, which administers a portfolio of awards and programmes that accelerate education in design, engineering and science to bolster industry. Nominations for the 2020 Sir Misha Black Award for Distinguished Services to Design Education […]
The Joseph Binder Award is an international competition with a focus on graphic design and illustration and was first launched in 1996 by designaustria, the interest organization and knowledge centre for design in Austria. It is named after one of the most outstanding graphic designers and illustrators active in Austria between the two World Wars, […]
Design shapes the world. Therefore it is necessary to bring gender awareness to the design process, to avoid both gender blindness and gender stereotypes. Every year, the iphiGenia Gender Design Award honors the world’s best gender sensitive designs. Submit by 30 April. Website
Good Design (GD) Selection, hosted by the Korean government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and organized by KIDP (Korea Institute of Design Promotion), has been held annually since 1985 based on the Industrial Design Promotion Act. The products and services selected thorough this program are given GD Marks in acknowledgement of their design excellence. […]
The 2020 Innovation by Design Awards honor the designers and businesses solving the problems of today and tomorrow. The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents. There are 29 categories, and the judges include renowned designers from a variety of disciplines, business […]
Good Design Award has been a sole comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system in Japan since 1957. Many companies and designers from both inside and outside of Japan participate in the activity to enhance the industry or the quality of life through the design. “G.Mark”, the symbol of the award has been recognized widely as […]
Dezeen Awards, now in its third year, identifies the world's best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing the most outstanding work. Organized by Dezeen, one of the most popular and influential architecture and design websites in the world, Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international […]
The Kids Design Award for the best product design - and thus also for the best aspiring young designer of the year 2020. Judged by independent experts from the design, industry and education sectors. The opportunity for all those, who would like to receive a distinction for their designs in the children's outfitting and furniture […]
Celebrating the best in design and architecture across 11 main design disciplines spanning 28 categories, Australia’s Good Design Awards is the nation’s highest design honour, recognising and rewarding design excellence since 1958. Now in its 62nd year, the Good Design Awards has a long and proud legacy of promoting the best in design to a […]
This year’s YouFab Global Awards focuses on how we can redesign and reframe humanity, physicality, and “real experience” given the context of a world where being contactless has become the default. It could be a proposal for a new technology or system, or a new behavioral pattern. The focus could be anything: a house, school, […]
The 2020 Good Design Awards will be announced over five days throughout the 2020 Good Design Week from 7 to 11 September and we’re inviting you to be a part of the celebrations. The Good Design Week will be filled with good news and inspiring content to recognise, reward and celebrate the innovative minds behind this year’s Good Design […]
