October 28, 2016
Japan Institute of Design Promotion

60-year-old Award continues to appreciate value and possibilities of design
World Map Projection [AuthaGraph World Map] wins Good Design Grand Award
19 “Good Design Gold Awards”, 19 “Good Design Special Awards” selected from 4 categories

World Map Projection [AuthaGraph World Map]

Tokyo, 28 October 2016 --- Japan Institute of Design Promotion (Chairman: Motomi Kawamoto) is proud toannounce the results of the Good Design Grand Award, Good Design Gold Awards, Good Design Special Awards
for the year 2016, which the institute serves as the main host.
The Good Design Grand Award, deemed the design of the year 2016, was chosen out of the six candidates
announced on September 29. The Good Design Award jury, winners of Good Design Award 2016, and visitors to"GOOD DESIGN GRAND AWARD ELECTION 2016" Exhibition, held at Marunouchi, Tokyo from September 29 toOctober 23, casted their votes to select the winning entry, World Map Projection [AuthaGraph World Map].
Winner: Good Design Grand Award 2016 (Prime Minister Award)
World Map Projection [AuthaGraph World Map]
Narukawa Laboratory, Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance (Kanagawa) + AuthaGraphCo., Ltd. (Tokyo)
This original mapping method projects the map of the world on a flat surface while maintaining correctly
proportions of the earth. AuthaGraph provides an advanced precise perspective of our planet, by representing
round surfaces and creating an multi-central aspect, known as G20. This world map was designed to portray theglobe more accurately to understand the complicated world of humans and represent it precisely.

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Please refer to the following website for details of the Good Design Gold Awards, Good Design Special
Awards.
Good Design Award Website: www.g-mark.org
Winners: Good Design Gold Award 2016 (Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award/19 items)★The candidates for Grand award-Tractor [YT3 Series] Yanmar Co., Ltd. (Japan) ★
-Apartment building [Hoshinotani Danchi] ODAKYU ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO.,LTD (Japan) + bluestudioCo.,Ltd.
(Japan) ★
-BOOK [TOKYO BOUSAI] DENTSU INC. (Japan) + NOSIGNER (Japan) + DENTSU TEC INC. (Japan) + TAKICORPORATION (Japan) + BRAINSHIP.INC (Japan) + TransMedia Corp. (Japan) + YUTA OKAMURA (Japan) ★
-Battery related product [MaBeee] Novars.Inc (Japan) ★
-Educational robotics and programming kit [KOOV (TM)] Sony Global Education, Inc. (Japan) + SonyCorporation (Japan) ★
-Musical Instrument [Seaboard RISE] ROLI Ltd. (U.K.) + MI Seven Japan, Inc. (Japan)-High-Resolution Audio Headphones [MDR-Z1R] Sony Corporation (Japan) + Sony Video & Sound Products
Inc. (Japan)-TV [SERIF TV] Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korea)-Interchangeable Lens Type Digital Camera [sd Quattro System] SIGMA CORPORATION (Japan)-toilet [AQUA CERAMIC] LIXIL Corporation (Japan)-BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) [Kesennuma/Ofunato BRT] East Japan Railway Company(Japan)-Wheelchair [morph] matsunaga manufactory co.,ltd (Japan)-Wheelchair [COGY] tess.inc (Japan)-Auto CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) [JPAP] METRAN Co.,Ltd (Japan) + ottimo design co.,ltd(Japan)-Isolator in the room [Mu-solator] Ideal Brain Co., Ltd (Japan)-nonprofit library [VVG CHAPTER] VVG INC. (Taiwan)-Urban Park [Tennoji Park Entrance Area"TEN-SHIBA"] KINTETSU REAL ESTATE Co.,LTD. (Japan)-Paper Partition System [Paper Partition System for Earthquake Kumamoto, Japan] Voluntary Architects'
Network (Japan) + Shigeru Ban Lab., Keio University SFC (Japan) + Tomoyuki Tanaka Lab., Kumamoto
University (Japan) + Volunteers of Architects in KUMAMOTO (Japan)-New jobs produced with people with disabilities [Good Job! project] Tanpopo-No-Ye Foundation (Japan)

Tractor [YT3 Series]

BOOK[TOKYOBOUSAI]

Apartment building [Hoshinotani Danchi]

Battery related product [MaBeee]

Educational robotics and programming kit [KOOV (TM)]

Winners: Good Design Special Awards 2016 (19 items)
Good Design Special Award [Design for the Future](Director-General of the Commerce and Information
Policy Bureau Award, 8 items)-Virtual Reality System ["PlayStation VR"] Sony Interactive Entertainment (Japan)-Segment-Handling Robot For Large Telescope [Segment-Handling Robot for Thirty Meter Telescope] MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION (Japan)-Lighting equipment [Lightface] Lightoda corporation (Japan) + Ad Seeds inc. (Japan) + Izumi Okayasu
Lighting Design Office (Japan) + NittohKogaku K.K. (Japan)-Balloon type multicopter [ballooncam] Panasonic Corporation (Japan)-Health Care Service [Seem -At-home Sperm Test App -] Recruit Lifestyle Co.,Ltd. (Japan) + Recruit
Communications Co., Ltd. (Japan)-kidsly [kidsly] Recruit Marketing Partners Co.,Ltd. (Japan)-A sensory device of sound [A new interface that allows sound to be felt from your hair "Ontenna"] FUJITSU
LIMITED (Japan)-discharge support [Discharge from hospital assisted navigation] Hospitality-ONE (Japan)

Good Design Special Award[Design of Production Development ] (Commissioner of the Small andMedium Enterprise Agency Award, 7 items)-Baseball, Softball Mitt [Perfect Protection] MitsuwaTiger (Japan)-Windows 10 Mobile SIM free Smartphone [NuAns NEO] Trinity, Inc. (Japan)-Outdoor Group-Talk Technology [BONX] BONX, INC. (Japan)-wood stove [AGNI-HUTTE] OKAMOTO CO.,LTD. (Japan)-Caster [dae caster] HAMMER CASTER Co. Ltd. (Japan)-shopping bag [Carry Cup] MIYAGEN CO.,LTD. (Japan)-Underground Fire Hydrant [SUS CAMEL (Stainless Underground Fire Hydrant Storage stopper type)]
Shimizu Kogyo Co.,Ltd (Japan)
Good Design Special Award [Design for Community Development] (Chairman of the Japan Chamber ofCommerce and Industry Award, 3 items)-a community commercial facility [Community Station Higashikoganei] JR Chuo Line Mall Co.,Ltd. (Japan) +REWRITE Co., Ltd. (Japan)-Trash bag [Trash bag of Jack-o'-lantern] DENTSU INC. (Japan)-Cafeteria Service for Tenants [TOKO KITCHEN] Toko Real Estate Agency (Japan)
Good Design Special Award [Disaster Recovery Design] (Japan Institute for Design Promotion Chairman
Award, 1 item)-Disaster Recovery Public Housing [Public Housing In Tamaura-Nishi B-1 Area] Urban Architecture PlanningPartnership (Japan)
Further details of the Good Design Award in this release can be found at the Good Design Award
website:www.g-mark.org<Data Download>
Visual data of the “Good Design Grand Award” candidates and “Good Design Best 100” items is available
for download at the following URL: https://www.jidp.or.jp/en/press/tools