For the Press
October 3, 2018
Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Announcement of Winners of the Good Design Award
2018
Good Design Award, Good Design Best 100, Long Life Design Awardare announced
The Japan Institute of Design Promotion (Chairman: Motomi Kawakami), the organizer of theGood Design Award, announced the Award recipients for 2018 on Wednesday, October 3.
The organization started accepting entries for the Good Design Award 2018 on April 4 and,following the screening of 4,789 entries, a total of 1,353 award-winning works have been
determined.
The winners that have been announced today include 100 works selected for Good Design Best100 for demonstrating excellence in originality, proposal power, aesthetics and level of completionthat would help raise the standards in today’s design and would be positioned as part of future
model design. Followed by further screening, Good Design Grand Award and other special awards
are to be selected from the Best 100.
Today, we have also announced 19 recipients of the Good Design Long Life Design Award, which
is given to products and projects that have been supported by the people over a long time.
Good Design Award 2018 results (year-on-year basis)Awarded entries: 1,353 (-50 entries)
Awarded companies: 945 (- 13 companies)
Total entries: 4,789 (+ 294 entries)
The above numbers include 278 award-winning works (211 companies) from outside Japan as well as
30 awarded entries from the special category set up as part of the effort that started in fiscal year 2011
to provide disaster relief to those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake (these entries areexempted from all costs involved in entering the Good Design Award).

Upon reviewing the award results of 2018, Chair and Vice Chair of the judging committee, Fumie
Shibata and Seiichi Saito, have together released a statement: “In recent years, design has
significantly increased its presence in the world, resulting in a shift in its role to fill. As design
becomes more and more prevalent in everyday life, we believe this year’s Good Design Award
would be helpful in once again sharing with the society the power and possibilities of design.
Through an even more fluid screening process, we believe the award will not only demonstrate
what design can do for the society, but also help showcase design from a variety of fields to set thenew standard and guide the future for improving the quality of our lives.”
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 (newly established)
will be determined by making a selection from Good Design Best 100 that will be announced today.
The screening takes place on October 10 through presentations (public event) by the awarded
designers and closed-door discussion among the judges. The recipient of the Good Design GrandAward will be determined through voting on October 31 by the judges in the committee and thisyear’s Good Design Award winners. The results of the special awards will be announced onOctober 31.
Exhibition of awarded works to start today
All the Good Design Award winning works announced today will be displayed at GOOD DESIGNEXHIBITION 2018 at Tokyo Midtown (in Roppongi) from Wednesday, October 31. In addition,some will be showcased at “My Favorite Design 2018” held at GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi
starting Wednesday, October 3 to display the creations selected by this year’s panel of 86 judges.
• GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2018
All award-winning works will be displayed at Tokyo Midtown (in Roppongi). Special Exhibit “GoodDesign Best 100” and a pop-up shop carrying award-winning products will be open during theevent.
Schedule: Wednesday, October 31 through Sunday, November 4
Venue: Tokyo Midtown (9 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo)• My Favorite Design 2018
Favorite award-winning works chosen by 86 judges of this year’s Good Design Award will beexhibited.
Schedule: Wednesday, October 3 through Sunday, November 4
Venue: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi (Shin Kokusai Building 1F Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Open everyday during the eventFree admission<Other Information>
About the Good Design Award
Founded in 1957 as the Good Design Product Selection System, the Good Design Award is aplatform to evaluate and promote design that represents Japan.
What makes the Good Design Award special is that it recognizes design in a broad range of fields,from industrial goods and architecture to software, systems, services and projects. We believe thisis the result of the thinking that everything around us is being developed with the intention ofachieving goals and finding a solution, with the purpose and the creator’s passion as thefoundation. For the last 60 years, the Good Design Award has served to explore new possibilitiesof design in the society and broaden the domain in which design is utilized.

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