This award is sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion and is awarded once a year for items featuring excellent design. The award has its origins in the “Good Design Selection System” (known as the “G-Mark System”) instituted by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1957. Its current name was adopted in 1988 following a privatization. It is the only comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system in Japan. A wide range of genres, from industrial products to business models, event activities, and so on, are eligible for the award.
“G-mark” has played a role as an index of “good design” for more than half a century since its establishment.

This award is sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion and is awarded once a year for items featuring excellent design. The award has its origins in the “Good Design Selection System” (known as the “G-Mark System”) instituted by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1957. Its current name was adopted in 1988 following a privatization. It is the only comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system in Japan. A wide range of genres, from industrial products to business models, event activities, and so on, are eligible for the award.
“G-mark” has played a role as an index of “good design” for more than half a century since its establishment.

Established in 1998 by a public interest incorporated foundation called the Japan Industrial Design Association (JIDA), the JIDA Design Museum Selection targets the promotion and development of industrial design and selects excellent products that will give us guidelines when considering the future as well as the present and the past. With “For beautiful, abundant life” as its theme, superior design products are selected to be kept from the present day for future reference and are presented, displayed, and recorded at the “JIDA Design Museum Selection.”

The Kids Design Award is a commendation program for realizing as well as spreading the three Kids Design Missions. Not limited to products/ services for children such as infant products and toys, this award welcomes a wide range of high quality products or facilities, programs and research activities for children and adults, as long as there are considerations made for children. There are 9 Minister Awards including the Prime Minister’s Award.Awarded works will be permitted to use the “Kids Design Mark”.

Cooper Hewitt is the nation’s only museum dedicated to historic and contemporary design, with a collection of over 210,000 design objects spanning thirty centuries. Located in the landmark Andrew Carnegie mansion and boasting a beautiful public garden, Cooper Hewitt makes design come alive with unique temporary exhibitions and installations of the permanent collection.

Since over 60 years, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been recognized as an arbiter of quality for exceptional design. The iF label is renowned worldwide for outstanding design services, and the iF DESIGN AWARD is one of the most important design prizes in the world.Submissions are awarded in the following disciplines: Product, Packaging, Communication and Service Design, Architecture and Interior Architecture as well as Professional Concepts. They are selected by the 58-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the world.

A global design award that has been sponsored by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany since 1955. It consists of three fields: product design, communication design, and design concept. High-level metrics, such as innovativeness, functionality, quality, consideration of design for human use, durability, etc. are used in the evaluation.

A’ Design Awards were established to create awareness for good design practices and principles. The ultimate aim of the A’ Design Award & Competition is to build strong incentives for designers, companies and brands from all countries to come up with better products, services and systems that benefit mankind. A’ Design Award & Competition therefore highlights and pushes forward worldwide designers and brands to create products and projects that offer additional value, increased utility, new functionality, superior aesthetics, exceptional efficiency, improved sustainability and remarkable performance.

The DFA Design for Asia Awards is the flagship programme of Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), 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.
Entries will be accessed according to the overall excellence and factors such as creativity & human centric innovation, usability, aesthetic, sustainability, impact in Asia, as well as commercial & societal success in two rounds of judging.

The DIA (Design Intelligence Award) is an internationally recognized academic award in industrial design established in China in 2015. DIA advocates that “design is the carrier of culture, a reflection of national strength, the wisdom of life, and the source of innovation,” and we propose important issues of the present and the future.
Host: China Academy of Art

This award celebrates design products, created for the Greater China area, which consider aspects of manufacturing such as the area’s lifestyle, cultural characteristics, technology, and customs. It also celebrates products that are well balanced in all aspects of integrity, creativity, functionality, aesthetics, and communicability. The award was instituted 33 years ago under the initiative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C.. In 2014, it was relaunched as an international award sponsored by the Taiwan Design Center.
*The Greater China area refers to Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.

TOP STANDS FOR THE OUTSTANDING PACKAGE.
Topawards Asia is a monthly design award exclusive for packaging sold on the market within Asia. Designs are gathered from around the continent from a consumer perspective, and are judged by renown design professionals.We believe good packaging is like a magnet, a touchpoint for all sorts of people — the primary and instinctive communication tool that connect designers, makers, and consumers together on an everyday basis.
The direct medium that speaks out the message.
A love at first sight.
Through Topawards, we aim to be a platform to enhance the exchange of knowledge and to connect people through packaging design.

“Japan Typography Yearbook,” published by the Japan Typography Association, was first introduced as “Japan Lettering Yearbook” in 1969. The 24th edition was introduced to the world in 2009.
Initially, the book was published every two years but from 1991, it began annual publication and calls for works from around the world in 10 different categories, including type face, logo type/symbol mark, VI, graphic, editorial, and research/experiment. In careful consideration by the judges selected from the members, a single work is selected for the “Grand Prix” from all the entries, and the “Best Work Award” is given to a single work from each category.
This yearbook is highly rated around the world as a record of typography designs.