Good Design Award

GOOD DESIGN AWARD

LONG LIFE DESIGN AWARD

ASEAN DESIGN SELECTION

The ASEAN countries produce many products of excellent design that take advantage of regional materials and technologies as well as of the life and cultures that form their background. The Good Design Award ASEAN Selection is a project to introduce the typical designs of these countries to the Japanese consumers.

The year before last, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and ASEAN-Japan Centre (ASEAN Promotion Centre on Trade, Investment and Tourism) proposed use of the Good Design Award in implementing part of the Center's ongoing program to support exports to Japan. JDP studied the proposal in light of the various roles that the Good Design Award is supposed to fulfill, and decided to proceed by provisionally creating an ASEAN Design Selection category under the Good Design Award. This project was enthusiastically received by the governments and industries of the countries concerned. Even though this was the first year, we were very fortunate to receive some 170 applications. An overview of the entries is given below.

The Yearbook which carries all the annual award winners is published every year.
It introduces special award winners such as Good Design Grand award, Gold award winners etc. with interviews/contributed articles to/from jury and designers as well as Good Design Award, Long Life Design award and Frontier Design Award winners.
It is not only an official record regarding Good Design Award but also the memorials to hand down the achievement of Japanese design at the time.
In this way, it is a design almanac we are proud.

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION

GOOD DESIGN EXPO

Heralded as Japan's largest design showcase event, the Good Design EXPO hosts the exhibition of all of the design embodiments and products submitted for the second screening of the Good Design Awards. EXPO events include seminars, roundtables discussions, and presentations. Total attendance of the EXPO typically exceeds 40,000, with international attendance from Asia rising in recent years.

MY FAVORITE OF GOOD DESIGN AWARD (Japanese)

COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE G-MARK SYSTEM (50th Anniversary)

Issued date: May 17, 2007
Publishing office: Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Sales office: BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA CO., LTD.
Specifications: A4 size / 236 pages
ISBN: 978-4-568-50320-3
Price: 3,800yen + sales tax
General editor: Tomoko Moriyama
Edit: Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Editing cooperation: Mamoru Sugiyama (ARCHIVE CO., LTD), aleph-zero CO., LTD, Koichi Nakazawa (100 designs Photographer)
Design: Tsuyokatsu Kudo + Shigeaki Ito (DESIGN JIKKENSHITSU)

DESIGN JAPAN

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Edit: Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Specifications: 260 pages　257mmx257mm　English
Price: 28.52 USD + sales tax
ISBN: 978-1-933330-48-8
Sale: End of March 2007

SUPER COLLECTION'50s-'90s

The data listed here is from our catalogue of the exhibition "Super Collection - 40 Years of the G-Mark: Good Design Which Created the Times", which we presented celebrating the 40th anniversary of the G-Mark Selection System in 1996.