Category

The Good Design Award makes all things applicable to screening in principle from the viewpoint that the design is required at all life fields and all industrial fields. Now, it consists of four following screening categories.

Product Design Category

Product Design Category screens all "industrially produced" goods from products used by individuals or in the home, through products used in business or such public arenas as medicine, education and social welfare.

Architecture and Environment Design Category

Architecture and Environment Design Category screens factories, laboratories and other industry- and energy-related facilities; shops, hotels, recreation facilities and other distribution- and service-related facilities; and train stations, parks, hospitals, art galleries and other social and cultural facilities.
Accepts domestic application only.

Communication Design Category

New Territory Design Category screens design of "communications" which exist in advertisement design, promotion events, public relation activities to actively communicate with consumers and information recipients. This category was established in 2001 to utilize this screening process to educate the society at large on the new role that design can play.
Accepts domestic application only.

New Territory Design Category

New Territory Design Category screens experiments in actively addressing global environmental problems, the issue of graying society and other issues dealing with the humanization of technology, more flexible production and the development of sales systems and regional culture, through the development of products and facilities (hardware development). This category was established in 1999 to utilize this screening process to educate the society at large on the new role that design can play.
Accepts domestic application only.