Good Design Awards 2009 Overview Report

Good Design Awards 2009 Results: 1,034 Awardees in Total
--15 candidates for the Good Design Grand Award, 6 for newly-established Good Design Frontier Design Award--

Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP; Tadashi Okamura, Chairman), the organization involved in the comprehensive promotion of design, announced the results of the 2009 Good Design Awards on October 1. Entries for this year opened on April 22 and received 2,952 applications from all over the world. As a result of first and second screening, 1,034 items received Good Design Awards. These include the Good Design Award Best 15 and other special awards.
Recipients of the Good Design Award Best 15 are selected as candidates for the Good Design Grand Award. A winner of this year's Good Design Grand Award will be selected from among those 15, at the Awards Ceremony to be held on November 6.

< Results of the Good Design Awards 2009 >

Total number of awardees: 1,034 (number of enterprises: 558)

Numbers of each domain:

A. Human body : 90
B. Living : 344
C. Work : 134
D. Society : 101
E. Network : 283
GDA based on collaboration with Design Excellence Award of Thailand : 51

< Results of Good Design Long Life Design Award 2009 >

Good Design the Long Life Design Award : 25

< Results of the Good Design Frontier Design Award 2009 >

Good Design Frontier Design Award : 6

< Results of the Good Design Award Special Awards 2009 >

Good Design Award Best 15* : 15
Good Design Sustainable Design Award : 3
Good Design Life Scape Design Award : 3
Good Design Award of Small and Medium Enterprises : 11
Good Design Award of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry : 2

* "Good Design Award Best 15" refers to the Good Design Grand Award candidates and Good Design Gold Award winners. When the Good Design Grand Award recipient determines on November 6, the remaining 14 nominees of the Best 15 will be designated as Good Design Gold Award winners.

About the Good Design Awards

Founded in 1957, the Good Design Awards (generally known as the "G Mark system") is Japan's only comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system. Having built a foundation to nurture Japan's industry and design, the Good Design Awards now accepts submissions from around the world and has earned a reputation for being a prestigious trademark for outstanding design and quality. Good Design Awards have been presented to 34,000 products to date.