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Japan Institute of Design Promotion
October 2, 2019

Good Design Award 2019 Winners Announced

The Japan Institute of Design Promotion (Chairman: Motomi Kawakami), the organizer of the Good DesignAward, announced the Award recipients for 2019 on Wednesday, October 2. The organization started accepting
entries for the Good Design Award 2019 on April 3 and, following the screening of 4,772 entries, a total of 1,420
award-winning works have been determined.
The winners that have been announced today include 100 works elected for Good Design Best 100 for
demonstrating excellence in originality, proposal power, aesthetics and level of completion that would help
raise the standards in today’s design and would be positioned as part of future model design. Followed byfurther screening, Good Design Grand Award and other special awards are to be selected from the Best 100.
Today, we have also announced 15 recipients of the Good Design Long Life Design Award, which is given toproducts and projects that have been supported by the people over a long time.
a selection from Good Design Best 100

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Good Design Award 2019 results
Awarded entries:1,420(+67 entries)
Awarded companies: 940(-5 companies)
Total entries: 4,772(-17 entries)

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Camping Office

Good Design Long Life Design Award 2019 results
Awarded entries:15
Awarded companies: 15
Total entries: 123
year-on-year basis

The above numbers include 318 works from outside Japan (37 works in cooperaWon with foreign design awards)
and 24 works with the special measure as the support for reconstrucWon from Great East Japan Earthquake
Disaster since 2011.
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Upon reviewing the award results of 2019, Chair and Vice Chair of the judging committee, Fumie Shibata andSeiichi Saito, have together released a statement:
Once again in this year's program, the key theme in evaluation was beauty. To create things that areaesthetically compelling, entrants in the program inevitably rely on sound design principles. For jury members, ithas been essential to consider the extent and quality of this effort. Rather than defining absolute notions ofbeauty before evaluation, however, we remain aware of the importance of full interpretations of beauty in linewith the times and society. Award results this year should be understood as being the outcome of serious
discussion by jury members with a variety of perspectives and professional insight, looking for beauty of all kinds.
We hope that this inherent potential of each award winner resonates with people and elicits their support as areliable, constructive force toward a more prosperous society in years to come.
Chair: Fumie Shibata
Product Designer
Representative Director,
Design Studio S

Vice Chair: Seiichi Saito
Creative Director / TechnicalDirector
CEO, Rhizomatiks Co., Ltd.

Good Design Grand Award and other special awards to be announced on October 31
Good Design Grand Award, Good Design Gold Award and Good Focus Award will be determined by making a selection
from Good Design Best 100 that will be announced today. The screening takes place on October 9 throughpresentations (public event) by the awarded designers and closed-door discussion among the judges. The recipient of
the Good Design Grand Award will be determined through voting on October 31 by the judges in the committee andthis year’s Good Design Award winners. The results of the special awards will be announced on October 31.
Exhibition of awarded works to start today
All the Good Design Award winning works announced today will be displayed at GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2019 at
Tokyo Midtown (in Roppongi) from Thursday October 31. In addition, some will be showcased at “My Favorite Design2019” held at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub starting Wednesday, October 3 to display the creations selected by thisyear’s panel of 92 judges.

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITIONAward ceremony

My Favorite Design

Reference / About Good Design Award
Established in 1957, Good Design Award is Japan’s leading commendation system.
Eligible for application are products, architecture, application and software, projects
and initiatives that utilize design and more. Through this system, many people comein contact with “good design” and appreciate their value. The recognition rate of theaward is 85%*, with its familiar symbol, G Mark.
*According to the Internet survey by Japan Institute of Design Promotion in 2017.

*schedules and names in this press release are subject to change.