TO: Members of the Press

August 28, 2017
Japan Institute of Design Promotion

2017 Good Design Award winners exhibition opens in October.
Enjoy the latest good designs at three events.
The Japan Institute of Design Promotion is planning to hold three events to introduce the latest winners ofthe 2017 Good Design Award, which the institute organizes, starting Oct. 4, the day that the winners will
be announced. Good Design Awards cover a wide range of common things, such as products,
architecture, software, and projects (efforts). Designs in a broad range of genres and of various types,
therefore, are presented with the award, and through these planned events, the institute will extensively
introduce the appealing aspects of the various designs from numerous perspectives.

Planned Events

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2017
This is the main event at which all the latest winners of the Good
Design Award are exhibited.
Dates: Nov. 1 (Wed)–5 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Midtown (Roppongi)

Everyone’s Choice Good Design Grand Award
Take part in the selection of the 2017 representative design.
Dates: Oct. 4 (Wed)–28 (Sat)
Venue: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi (Marunouchi)
GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2017
poster (Designer Norio Nakamura )My Choice 2017
Collection of the favorite designs of the 83 members of the judging
committeeDates: Oct. 4 (Wed)–27 (Fri)
Venue: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (Roppongi)
A summary of each event is provided on the following pages.

Winners of 2017 Good Design Awards are expected to be announced as given below. Details on theannouncement event for the media will be provided later.
• Oct. 4 (Wed) Good Design Award, Good Design Best 100, Good Design Grand Award
candidates, Good Design
Long Life Design Award• Nov. 1 (Wed) Good Design Grand Award, Good Design Gold Award, and Good Design Special
Award
Details of the 2017 Good Design Award winners exhibition are always available at the Good DesignAward website (www.g-mark.org)
Inquiries regarding this should be directed to the responsible staff (Tsukita, Arai, and Suzuki) at OZMA Inc.
Tel：03-4531-0214

E-mail：jdp@ozma.co.jp

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2017
Main event to see, touch, and experience the latest Good Design Awardwinners
At the GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2017, the main event that opens November 1, all winners of Good
Design Awards and the Long Life Design Award, which is given to designs beloved for many years, willbe exhibited. This is the main Good Design Award winners exhibition, where visitors can see, touch,and experience the latest Good Design Award winners, and the event includes public presentations bydesigners of the Good Design Best 100, the 100 top items; talks by judges; a special exhibition by thecompany that wins the largest number of Good Design Awards, and a limited-time store where winning
items can be purchased.
Dates:

Nov. 1 (Wed)–5 (Sun), 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. on the last day)

Venue:

Tokyo Midtown (9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

Entrance fee:

1,000 yen (tax included, valid for 5 days) (Certain areas of the venue are accessible
free of charge, and the event is free for college students and younger people.)

Organizer:

Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Sponsor:

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Small and Medium Enterprise Agency;
Tokyo Metropolitan Government; Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO); ASEAN-JAPAN Center, Nihon Keizai
Shimbun Inc.; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK (expected)

Special support: Tokyo Midtown

Planning and production: Asatsu-DK Inc.; Creative Direction: Junichi Tanaka (POPS)
Venue design: TORAFU ARCHITECTS Inc.
Graphic design: Norio Nakamura
Equipment support: Ishinomaki Laboratory
Last year’s venue

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2017 Main Events (plan)2017 Good Design Award winners exhibition
All winners of the latest award, which are expected to be announced October 4, will be introduced.
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* Large items, etc., will be shown using display panels.

Good Design Best 100 special exhibition and designer presentations
Of the various winners, 100 outstanding items will be exhibited under a single roof. There will also bepublic presentations by the lead designer of each of the 100 items during the event.
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Good Design Long Life Design Award winners exhibition
The latest winners of the Good Design Long Life Design Award, which are awarded to designs that havecontinued to win support from people over the years, will be exhibited.
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Superior Company exhibition
The company that wins the largest number of Good Design Awards this year will exhibit their items in aspecial booth. This allows the company to communicate its corporate message through design.
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GOOD DESIGN STORE TOKYO by NOHARA pop-up shop
The popular GOOD DESIGN STORE TOKYO by NOHARA, the only store in Japan to handle only Good
Design Award winners, will open a limited-time store at the venue, making it possible for visitors to quickly
purchase winning items.
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Designer talks at specially installed stage, workshops, etc.

Venue design
TORAFU ARCHITECTS Inc.
TORAFU ARCHITECTS was founded by Koichi Suzuno (on the right) and Shinya
Kamuro (on the left) in 2004. The company undertakes a wide range of activities,
including architectural design, interiors, exhibition venue composition, productdesign, space installation, and movie production, from an architectural perspective.
Their main products include “TEMPLATE IN CLASKA,” “NIKE 1LOVE,” “HOUSE IN
KOHOKU,” “airvase,” “Gulliver Table,” and “Big T.” The “Light Loom” (Canon MilanoSalone 2011) was awarded the Grand Prize of the Elita Design Award foroutstanding display during an exhibition. In 2015, "airvase" became part of thepermanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The book “TORAFU
ARCHITECTS Inside Out” was published in 2016 by TOTO Publishing.

Graphic Design
Norio Nakamura
Graphic Designer, Art Director
After graduating from Nihon University College of Art and working at Sony MusicEntertainment, Norio Nakamura went independent. His recent works include“Measuring” at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT and the Ginza Maison Hermes window display.
In 2017, he held the “Norio Nakamura Exhibition” (G8). He is the author of various
books—the picture book “Dottoko Zoo,“ “A Scientist and His Amazing Pool,” “FlyingRound the House” (all of these were published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc.),“Maywa Denki No Kokoku Desain” (co-authored with Nobumichi Tosa, published byNTT Publishing Co., Ltd. ), “Katte Ni Kokoku” (co-authored with Masahiko Sato,published by MAGAZINE HOUSE Co., Ltd. ). He was won numerous awards,
including New York ADC Award Silver Prize, Japan Media Arts Festival ExcellenceAward, Tokyo ADC Award, Tokyo TDC Award, and the 2014 Bologna Children's Book
Fair Award for “Dottoko Zoo.”

Everyone’s Choice 2017 Good Design Grand Award
You, too, can vote for the Grand Award this year! Visitors’ votes accepted.
This year’s Good Design Grand Award candidates, which will beannounced October 4, will be on display. The Good Design GrandAward is the top award and presented to one of the Good DesignAward winners each year. It is considered the design that represents
the times and will be passed on to future generations as arepresentative design.
At the planned exhibition, visitors can vote for the candidate productthey like, and everyone is able to participate in selecting this year’s
winner of Good Design Grand Award.
A single design is selected for the award taking into consideration
the total votes received from not only the Good Design Award judges
and Good Design Award winners but also visitors. The winner will beannounced November 1.
Last year’s venue

Dates: Oct. 4 (Wed)–28 (Sat), 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. (open every day)
Venue: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi (Shin Kokusai Building (1F), 3-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Entrance fee: freeOrganizer: Japan Institute of Design Promotion

My Choice 2017
Favorite winning designs selected by Good Design Award judges
Each of the 83 judges conducting the screening for this year’s Good
Design Award will select and introduce one design that they
particularly like or find interesting. Designs selected taking into
consideration the individual perspective of judges actively working
on the frontline of various fields, such as designers, architects,researchers, and journalists, are probably deeply individualistic andLast year’s venue

communicate a surprise and sense of discovery of “I see” and “thatperson did this design?”
Exhibition judges: Kazufumi Nagai (Good Design Judging
Committee Chair), Fumie Shibata（Vice-chair), etc.
Dates: Oct. 4 (Wed)–27 (Fri), 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. (open every day)
Venue: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (Midtown Tower (5F), 9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Entrance fee: free
Organizer: Tokyo Midtown Design HubVenue design: Hiromura Design Office