Report from the 2025 GOOD DESIGN AWARD Second Screening Panel + Best 100 Selection Committee: 3 days of interactions between diverse viewpoints and passions

Report from the 2025 GOOD DESIGN AWARD Second Screening Panel + Best 100 Selection Committee: 3 days of interactions between diverse viewpoints and passions

The Second Screening Panel for the 2025 GOOD DESIGN AWARD was held in an atmosphere full of enthusiasm. The thousands of entries were lined up in the vast hall, and the judges carefully screened them one by one, picking them up and trying them out for themselves. The selection process moved forward through repeated discussions based on an earnest gaze. At last, after a long screening, the subject entries that passed the second screening (considered as award finalists) were decided upon! Moreover, on the final day, a screening session for the GOOD DESIGN BEST 100 also took place.

2025.08.28

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