PRESS RELEASE
October 3, 2011

Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Good Design Award 2011 – 1,112 award winners across the world
From 649 companies of all, 27 items from Tohoku and Ibaraki companies
Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP, located in Minato-ku, Tokyo), Japanʼs only
comprehensive design promotion organization, has released the results of Good
Design Award 2011 as of October 3.
As 55th year since its foundation, Good Design Award 2011 launched May 18.
Through the 1st screening and 2nd screening for 649 applications, 1,112 entries areawarded.
Special award winners such as “Good Design Grand Award”, “Good Design GoldAward” or “Good Design Long Life Design Award” will be released on November 9, atthe Good Design Awards Ceremony.
The results of Good Design Award 2011
1,112 entries from 649 companies are awarded
Through 3,162 applications
Please note that these awarded entries include 27 items from Tohoku and Ibaraki companies and 61
items from winners of Design Excellence Award Thailand in cooperation with Good Design Award.
For the breakdown such as by category, nationality, please find attached table.

<Release of the information of award winners>
As from October 3, the information of award winners 2011 will be released on the“Award results 2011” as well as “Good Design Finder” website. Individual productname, designers, outline of the product can be found. With regards to the entries theinformation is still closed as of October 3, the will be released later on.
<Special encouragement to support the reconstruction>
To support and encourage the reconstruction of disaster area by Great Eastern Japan
Earthquake, the applications of the companies from 6 Tohoku prefecture (Aomori,Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima) plus Ibaraki prefecture are exemptedfrom all relative cost for Good Design Award 2011.
<Cooperation with Design Excellence Award, Thailand>
Since March 2008, Good Design Award has been in cooperation with Design
Excellence Award of Thailand through the exchange of Judge and exhibition. The
Design Excellence Award winners can go to the 2nd screening of Good Design Award
directly. 61 items of them are awarded through this cooperation.
Good Design Award website: http://www.g-mark.org/english/*Visual materials for press are available. Please contact below.
Press Contact: e-mail: info-e@g-mark.org(Japan Institute of Design Promotion)

<Release of the special award winners and key dates>
Good Design Special Award winners are selected from among all Good Design Awardwinners.
October 3 – Good Design Award winners are released
November 9 – Awards Ceremony and Good Design Special Award winners will bereleased
Special Awards: Good Design Grand Award, Good Design Gold Award, Good Design Sustainable
Design Award, Good Design Award of Small and Medium Enterprises,
Good Design Award of the Japan Chamber of Commerce, Good Design Long Life Design Award andGood Design Frontier Design Award

Mid of February, 2012 – Good Design Award 2011 Yearbook will be published<Good Design Award 2011 Award Ceremony>At the Awards Ceremony, trophies and award certificates will be presented to theaward winners and Special Award winners will be released. Judges including Mr.
Naoto Fukasawa, the chairman of Judging Committee will attend the ceremony. Press
conference will be held there.
All of the media are warmly invited to join.
Date: November 9 (Time is to be confirmed)
Place: Tokyo Midtown Hall (9-7-1, Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo)<Selection of Good Design Grand Award>
For 2011, Good Design Grand Award will be selected by vote of the Judging
Committee, Good Design Award winners and visitors to “Good Design Exhibition” as“Design of the Year” which represents 2011. After the vote is closed, the result will be
released at Awards Ceremony.
Voting period: October 28 – November 6
Place: International Design Liaison Center (Tokyo Midtown Design Hub)
<Good Design Exhibition 2011 at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub>At Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo), “Good Design Exhibition
2011” which exhibits selected 73 items from among all Good Design Award winners
with especially high evaluation from the judges will be held.
Title: “Good Design Exhibition 2011 – Reasonableness”
Term: October 3 – November 13, 2011 (11:00-19:00, only closed on October 12)
Place: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (Admission Free)
Organizer: Tokyo Midtown Design HubAdministrator: Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Good Design Award 2011 Winners
Winners by category

Japanese winners by prefecture

Personal belongings
Health care, child care and nursing care

1

Australia

1

98

Aomori

4

Brazil

3

Iwate

12

China

1

86

Miyagi9

Denmark

1

Sports and hobby
Sundries and household goods
Tableware and cooking tools
Household electrical appliances

Winners from overseas

Hokkaido

77

Furniture and interior goods

Akita

6France2

Yamagata

3

Germany

7

Fukushima

2Hong Kong

1

Ibaraki2

Italy

1Tochigi

4

Korea

39

101
House ﬁxtures
Housing

96

Mobile phones, communication terminals and personal computers

104

Gunma

4

Liechtenstein

1

Audio-visual equipment

92

Saitama14

Slovenia

1

Chiba

12

Spain

3Cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and relative equipment
52
Carriages for carrier, industry, civil engineering and building, vessels and relative equipment

Materials and parts
Industrial/building gear and equipment541

Sweden2

41

Switzerland

1

Niigata

11

Taiwan26

Oﬃce, shop and display equipment

Toyama4

Thailand61

Public facilities and equipment

Ishikawa

5

U.S.A.

12Total163

Educational goods and equipment

77

Tokyo
Kanagawa

60

Fukui

5Yamanashi

0Nagano10Gifu8

Shizuoka

22

Packaging design

Aichi

68

Sign design

Mie0Medical goods and equipment
Atrchitecture and space for commerce and industry
Architecture and space for public

76

Public works, Regional development and city design

Shiga

3

Advertising design

Kyoto

17

Public communication design

Osaka

189

Hyogo

20

Nara

4

Software design

Wakayama

1Service design

Tottori3

Shimane3

Media design

29Interface design
Website design

Branding design

28

37

Business model design

Okayama3

Design for solution in business

Hiroshima

12Yamaguchi

0Tokushima

5Kagawa

5Ehime3Kochi0Community design
Design for social contribution activity

31

Design for social infrastructure/platform
Research/development utilizing design
Education/talent cultivation utilizing design

7

Fukuoka

2261

Saga

1

1,112

Nagasaki

4※With regards to the number of winners from overseas, the count is applied only for theKumamoto

5

Oita

0

Entrepreneurship utilizing design
Winners in cooperation with Design Excellence Award, Thailand

Totalcompanies whose headquarters are overseas, i.e. if the applicant is Japanese branch offoreign company, it is counted as Japanese company. The number of the winners includes
the plural applicants for one awarded entry .

Miyazaki0

Kagoshima0

Okinawa4

Total1,092