2009 Good Design Awards: Step-by-Step Guide

Application period for the Good Design Award 2009 is April 28th to June10th. Please complete all the necessary registration and confirmation during the application period.

1) How to Apply for Good Design Awards

 
How to Apply for Good Design Awards

2) See First Screening Result

 
See First Screening Result

3) Prepare for Second Screening and Good Design EXPO

 
Prepare for Second Screening and Good Design EXPO

4) See Second Screening Result

 
Result of the Good Design Awards 2009 Second Screening will be notified through the website, on applicant's exclusive Entry Site on September 11th.

*Official announcement of the results will be made on October 1 through Good Design Awards website. Please refrain from publicizing the results until then.

 
Applicants may login to their Entry Site and find out the results.
 
"Passed 2nd screening"
Entries passed the 2nd screening

"Failed"
Entries did not pass the 2nd screening
 
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5) Prepare for Awards Announcement

Applicants who passed the 2nd screening are required to review/modify information of entries during the preparation period (September 11h to 17th). Information will be released on website, media and printed material such as Award Certificate and Yearbook.
Registered information can not be changed after September 17th. Please complete the modification during the period.

 
Confirm Releasing Information

Please review information of your entry, which will be introduced on Good Design Awards website, media, Awards Certificate and Yearbook. If necessary, please modify registered information by September 17th.

*You may modify registered information at any time during the confirmation period.

 
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6) Following Events of Awardees

 

1. Judges' Evaluation
Evaluation by judges on each award-winning entries will be posted on the Entry Site around late September.

2. Award Results Announcement
Official announcement of the final results (except for the Grand Award) will be made on October 1st 11:00 Japan time, at a press conference and through Good Design Awards website.

3. Yearbook Publication Fee
Yearbook publication fee will be invoiced on October 1st.
Payment deadline is November 30th. If the payment delays, please contact info-e@g-mark.org and let us know the estimate date of remittance.

4. Good Design Awards PR Campaign
Good Design Awards PR campaign period is conducted from October 1st till 31st. During one month campaign period, award recipients of 2009 can use G Mark logo for free. Awardees may use G Mark logo for promotional use on the website and any other relevant marketing materials.
Usage of the G Mark logo after the campaign period requires an application. Details are provided under "G Mark Usage Guide".

5. Awards Ceremony
The awards ceremony, at which time the Good Design Grand Prize is announced, is held on November 6. Awards Certificates are handed over at the ceremony. For oversea applicants, the certificates are sent by post. The ceremony is attended by awardees, judges, journalists, and Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.

6. Yearbook Published
"Good Design Awards Yearbook 2009-2010" is scheduled to be published in late January, 2010. The yearbook introduces all the awarded entries and the feature articles.

 
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Cautions at process on the Internet

1) Recommended browser software

For Windows user:

Internet Explorer 7 onwards
Firefox 3.0 onwards

For Macintosh user:

Safari 3.2 onwards
FireFox 3.0 onwards

* You cannot login to the Entry Site with Internet Explorer for Macintosh.
Please use the latest version of recommended browsers above.

2) Browser settings

The G-mark site uses technology such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) coded communication, Java Script, and Cookie, so that you can complete your entries securely and smoothly. Before accessing the site, be sure to check your communications environment and your browser settings.

  • About SSL

    The entry site uses SSL coded communication, which encodes communication between your computer and our database server and allows both parties to send and receive corporate and product information with a high degree of secrecy. Please use a browser compatible with SSL, such as Version 6.0 or higher of Internet Explorer, or version 6.0 or higher of Netscape Navigator. Note that in some cases, the firewall for your company's internal network may prevent communication by SSL. If that is the case, please consult your company's network administrator.

  • JavaScript and Cookie

    At the application pages, Java Script and Cookie is used. Please make sure to set up these "effective."

3) 45 minutes to Automatic Sign-out

In each page of Entry Site, if the state of clicking the button such as "Confirm" and "Register Confirmed Information", or omitting the page change of progressing to other pages continues for about 45 minutes, the page will automatically sign out of a server side compulsorily in order to prevent occupancy of the right to access. In this case, it becomes impossible to transmit the contents filled in by the point in time, and an error page is displayed. In order to prevent this, we recommend you to make and save the contents to fill in with word-processing software etc. beforehand, and copy and paste these contents into the each page.