Applications for GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD 2025 are open until 1 p.m. on August 15!

Applications for GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD 2025 are open until 1 p.m. on August 15!

The GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD supports young talent who will pioneer the design of the future. The program began in fiscal 2022 for students and newly working adults who have just graduated or completed their programs of study. Entrants have a free choice of theme, and can use their past efforts, such as work made for assignments or independently while studying, to apply. In this article, we introduce the attractive features of the NEW HOPE AWARD, which broadens entrants’ hands-on learning and networks as designers.

2025.07.25

The potential of designers as “modern-day activists”: reflections on the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2024 by Naoki Ota, Yutaka Nakamura, and Aki Hayashi

The potential of designers as “modern-day activists”: reflections on the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2024 by Naoki Ota, Yutaka Nakamura, and Aki Hayashi

GOOD DESIGN AWARD Focused Issues will capture the design “wave” behind the award-winning works and set a theme every year, with the vision of being a “think tank for design.” In the 2024 fiscal year, the report “Focused Issues 2024: A Small Step, Design Leaps” was published as a proposal after a process of several screenings. Three Focused Issues researchers who followed the screening process and developed this proposal from an external standpoint of “not being” judges for the award summarized the Focused Issues for FY2024 and looked ahead to the future.

2025.5.30