Concept

"GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2019" will present this year's all award winning designs that symbolize 2019. This year’s exhibition concept is “GOOD DESIGN MUSEUM”. At the beginning of the exhibition, you can review the history of GOOD DESIGN AWARD, which is over 60 years, then you can watch the whole award winning items over 1,400 winners at once.
Find your “GOOD DESIGN” this autumn at Tokyo Midtown.

About Award

Grand Award and its Finalists announced!

Out of 5 finalists, the Good Design Grand Award 2019 was awarded to "Diagnostic Kit [Rapid Diagnostic Kit for Tuberculosis]" at the "Grand Award Selection" held on October 31st. Detailed information on the winners and finalists can be found at the link below.

The public vote for the Good Design Grand Award has ended.

Voting Date
& Time
October 31st, 13:30-14:30 (Counting votes will start around 15:30)
Voting venue
from Visitors
Special Stage at Area A, Midtown Hall B

Special Awards to be
announced on Oct. 31

“GOOD DESIGN GRAND AWARD”, “GOOD DESIGN GOLD AWARD” and “GOOD FOCUS AWARD” will be announced at the special stage, Area A, Midtown Hall B on October 31st. At the Hall A, next to the special stage, you can see these Special Awards winners.

Screening Process

The selection process consists of two stages. In the first screening, the judges review the registered information online, then in the second screening they experience an actual product. After the screening, the “Good Design Award” has been selected. The second screening was conducted in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea. From all the Good Design Award winners, GOOD DESIGN BEST100 are selected, then from BEST100, Special Awards are selected, finally Grand Award is to be selected from Gold Awards.

Result of 2019

  • Total Entries
    4,772
  • Awarded Entries
    1,420
  • Awarded Companies
    940
  • Judges
    90
  • Participating
    Nations/Regions
    28

Judges

Fumie Shibata,
Chair
Seiichi Saito,
Vice chair

The 2019 Good Design Award Jury welcomed 90 judges including designers, architects, and specialists in each field, domestically and internationally. The screening was conducted in 18 units (categories) under the jury chair Ms. Fumie Shibata and the vice-chair Mr. Seiichi Saito.

MovieLook back 2019

You can see the trail of Good Design Award 2019 in the video. This year's “Good Design” was chosen by the active discussions and serious consideration of the judges.

You can see the trail of Good Design Award 2019 in the video. This year's “Good Design” was chosen by the active discussions and serious consideration of the judges.

About Exhibition

  • Latest GOOD DESIGN more than 1,400!
    GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2019’s theme is “GOOD DESIGN MUSEUM”. The latest Good Design Award winning designs will be exhibited at a glance.
  • LONG LIFE DESIGN EXHIBITION 2019
    Good Design Long Life Design Award is given to designs with the ability to continue to be standard, exceeding the values that change with the times. Introducing 15 winning designs that have been loved for many years and that will support our daily lives.
  • GOOD DESIGN STORE TOKYO by NOHARA
    The pop-up store of "Good Design Store Tokyo by Nohara" will appear again this year. The number of items sold has been increased more than before. Meet the newest designs which can be bought!
  • Superior company 2019
    This is a special exhibition booth by two companies that has won many awards this year. The award-winning designs will be introduced in each company's original space.
    Exhibitor: FUJIFILM Corporation、Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
  • “G mark” navigator
    The exhibitions in various locations in Tokyo Midtown Roppongi will be guided by the grid and G mark. Find your “good design”.
  • About exhibition creative team
    The graphic design is created by Mr. Yoshiaki Irobe who just won the 21st Kamekura Yusaku Award, and the venue design is created by Naruse and Inokuma Architectural Design Office, who is also a member of the Good Design Award Jury. Mr. Tatsuya Kuji curated the entrance exhibition.

Floor Guide

  • BEST100,Special Exhibition & Stage ミッドタウンホール
  • Good Design Store アトリウム
  • Long Life Design Exhibition 21_21 Gallery 3
  • BEST100 Exhibition キャノピー・スクエア
  • Awards Exhibition カンファレンス
  • Awards Exhibition デザインハブ

Find your favorite design with "GOOD DESIGN SEARCH". For more information about each design, check out this search engine.

Stage & Seminar Program

  • 13:30 ~ 16:30

    Award Ceremony & Grand Award Selection Live (Live streaming from Grand Hyatt Tokyo)

  • 13:30 ~ 14:30

    Good Design Grand Award Voting

  • Around 15:00

    Announcement of Good Design Grand Award

  • 18:30~19:00

    Press Conference of Special Awards Winners Announcement

  • 11:00〜12:00

    CLOSED

  • 12:00〜20:00

    LOUNGE

Outline

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2019

Dates
31 October – 4 November 2019, 11:00-20:00
Until 18:00 on the last day / admission until 30 minutes before closing
Venue
TOKYO MIDTOWN each places Akasaka 9-7-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Admission Free
Organized by Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Supported by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry / The Small and Medium Enterprise Agency / Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Japan Chamber of Commerce / JETRO / ASEAN Promotion Centre on Trade, Investment and Tourism / The Nikkei / Yomiuri Shimbun / NHK
Special Support by Tokyo Midtown
Supervised by Fumie Shibata (Chair, GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2019 Jury)
Seiichi Saito (Vice-Chair, GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2019 Jury)
Operated by ADK Marketing Solutions
Venue Design by NARUSE INOKUMA ARCHITECTS
Graphic Design by Yoshiaki Irobe (Irobe Institute of Design, Nippon Design Center)
Curated (Entrance Exhibition) by Tatsuya Kuji
Movie by Irobe Institute of Design, Nippon Design Center / Kenichi Hashimoto / Heima(Music Production)
Produced by Nomura Co., Ltd.
Cooperation (Stand) with Ishinomaki Kobo / KOKUYO Co.,Ltd.

1
Information & Archive
Information Desk, and the entrance exhibition of the history of the Good Design Award 60 years.
2
Special Awards & BEST100
Among the 1,420 award winners, highly evaluated “GOOD DESIGN BEST100” and Special Awards winners are exhibited here.
3
Good Design Lounge
Break area which also have past years' yearbooks can be browsed.
4
Stage
Various talk events will be held by inviting judges, award-winning designers.
5
Superior Company
Special exhibition booth introduces two companies which is one of the most awarded companies. Each booth is created by their original design.
Exhibitor: FUJIFILM, Mitsubishi Electric

6
Asian Design Exhibition
We are in alliance with 5 countries' design awards sharing our Good Design Award philosophy. Among them, from Asia with remarkable growth, Thailand, India and Indonesia design are to be exhibited.

7
Award Winner’s Gallery
This gallery introduces the whole award winning designs of this year.

The pop-up store of "Good Design Store Tokyo by Nohara" will appear again this year.The number of items sold has been increased more than before.
Meet the newest designs which can be bought!

Good Design Long Life Design Award is given to designs that remain standard throughout time. Up to now, we will introduce 15 designs that will support our daily lives.
Opening time: 10:00-19:00 door close: 18:30

From GOOD DESIGN BEST100, you can see the unique designs such as bar-coil coils for reinforced concrete, rice transplanters, and playground equipment, with solutions to problems and new proposals.

From daily necessities, home appliances, architecture to industrial and medical devices that cannot be seen normally, apps and web, services, social contribution activities, there are about 1,300 award-winning designs this year. In the seminar room, the seminars "Judge's Insight" will be held for each category.