The First Screening for GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2025 has started! The results are announced on July 1

The First Screening for GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2025 has started! The results are announced on July 1

A four–month–long GOOD DESIGN AWARD screening began on June 4! In the first screening (paper screening), the First Screening Session of about 100 judges active in Japan and overseas was held on June 23, and entries selected for the second screening were decided.

2025.07.01

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