Good Design Awards Overview Report
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Good Design Award 2011 - 1,112 award winners across the world
From 649 companies of all, 27 items from Tohoku and Ibaraki companies
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45 Special Award winners are released on November 9
Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP, located in Minato-ku, Tokyo), Japan's only comprehensive design promotion organization, has released the results of Good Design Award 2011 as of October 3.
As 55th year since its foundation, Good Design Award 2011 launched May 18. Through the 1st screening and 2nd screening for 3,162 applications, 1,112 entries are awarded.
Special award winners such as "Good Design Grand Award" , "Good Design Gold Award" or "Good Design Long Life Design Award" will be released on November 9, at the Good Design Awards Ceremony.
The results of Good Design Award 2011
1,112 entries from 649 companies are awarded
Through 3,162 applications
Please note that these awarded entries include 27 items from Tohoku and Ibaraki companies and 61 items from winners of Design Excellence Award Thailand in cooperation with Good Design Award.
For the breakdown such as by category, nationality, please find attached table.
Release of the information of award winners
As from October 3, the information of award winners 2011 will be released on the "Award results 2011" as well as "Good Design Finder" website. Individual product name, designers, outline of the product can be found. With regards to the entries the information is still closed as of October 3, the will be released later on.
Special encouragement to support the reconstruction
To support and encourage the reconstruction of disaster area by Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, the applications of the companies from 6 Tohoku prefecture (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima) plus Ibaraki prefecture are exempted from all relative cost for Good Design Award 2011.
-> The list of 27 awarded items
Cooperation with Design Excellence Award, Thailand
Since March 2008, Good Design Award has been in cooperation with Design Excellence Award of Thailand through the exchange of Judge and exhibition. The Design Excellence Award winners can go to the 2nd screening of Good Design Award directly. 61 items of them are awarded through this cooperation.
-> The list of Thai award winners via Design Excellence Award
Good Design Exhibition 2011 at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub
At Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo), "Good Design Exhibition 2011" which exhibits selected 73 items from among all Good Design Award winners with especially high evaluation from the judges will be held.
Title: "Good Design Exhibition 2011 - Reasonableness"
Term: October 3 - November 13, 2011
(11:00-19:00, only closed on October 12)
Place: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (Admission Free)
Organizer: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub
Administrator: Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Results of the Good Design Award Special Awards 2011
Good Design Grand Award | 1 |
Good Design Gold Award |
12 |
Good Design Sustainable Design Award | 5 |
Good Design Award of Small and Medium Enterprises | 8 |
Good Design Award of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry | 1 |
Good Design Long Life Design Award | 18 |
Good Design Frontier Design Award | Nothing suitable |
Good Design Award 2011 Winners
Winners by category
Unit 1
Personal belongings | 98 |
Health care, child care and nursing care |
Sports and hobby |
Unit 2
Sundries and household goods | 86 |
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Unit 3
Tableware and cooking tools | 77 |
Household electrical appliances |
Unit 4
Furniture and interior goods | 101 |
House fixtures |
Unit 5
Unit 6
Mobile phones, communication terminals and personal computers | 104 |
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Unit 7
Unit 8
Cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and relative equipment | 52 |
Carriages for carrier, industry, civil engineering and building, vessels and relative equipment |
Unit 9
Materials and parts | 77 |
Industrial/building gear and equipment |
Office, shop and display equipment |
Unit 10
Public facilities and equipment | 60 |
Educational goods and equipment |
Medical goods and equipment |
Unit 11
Atrchitecture and space for commerce and industry | 76 |
Architecture and space for public |
Public works, Regional development and city design |
Unit 12
Packaging design | 29 |
Sign design |
Media design |
Advertising design |
Public communication design |
Unit 13
Interface design | 28 |
Website design |
Software design |
Unit 14
Service design | 37 |
Branding design |
Business model design |
Design for solution in business |
Unit 15
Community design | 31 |
Design for social contribution activity |
Design for social infrastructure/platform |
Research/development utilizing design | 7 |
Education/talent cultivation utilizing design |
Entrepreneurship utilizing design |
Winners in cooperation with Design Excellence Award, Thailand
Winners in cooperation with Design Excellence Award, Thailand | 61 |
Japanese winners by prefecture
Hokkaido | 1 |
Aomori | 4 |
Iwate | 12 |
Miyagi | 9 |
Akita | 6 |
Yamagata | 3 |
Fukushima | 2 |
Ibaraki | 2 |
Tochigi | 4 |
Gunma | 4 |
Saitama | 14 |
Chiba | 12 |
Tokyo | 541 |
Kanagawa | 41 |
Niigata | 11 |
Toyama | 4 |
Ishikawa | 5 |
Fukui | 5 |
Yamanashi | 0 |
Nagano | 10 |
Gifu | 8 |
Shizuoka | 22 |
Aichi | 68 |
Mie | 0 |
Shiga | 3 |
Kyoto | 17 |
Osaka | 189 |
Hyogo | 20 |
Nara | 4 |
Wakayama | 1 |
Tottori | 3 |
Shimane | 3 |
Okayama | 3 |
Hiroshima | 12 |
Yamaguchi | 0 |
Tokushima | 5 |
Kagawa | 5 |
Ehime | 3 |
Kochi | 0 |
Fukuoka | 22 |
Saga | 1 |
Nagasaki | 4 |
Kumamoto | 5 |
Oita | 0 |
Miyazaki | 0 |
Kagoshima | 0 |
Okinawa | 4 |
Total | 1,092 |
Winners from overseas
Australia | 1 |
Brazil | 3 |
China | 1 |
Denmark | 1 |
France | 2 |
Germany | 7 |
Hong Kong | 1 |
Italy | 1 |
Korea | 39 |
Liechtenstein | 1 |
Slovenia | 1 |
Spain | 3 |
Sweden | 2 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Taiwan | 26 |
Thailand | 61 |
U.S.A. | 12 |
Total | 163 |
※With regards to the number of winners from overseas, the count is applied only for the companies whose headquarters are overseas, i.e. if the applicant is Japanese branch of foreign company, it is counted as Japanese company. The number of the winners includes the plural applicants for one awarded entry.