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Social Products Award 2025
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This is Japan's first award system that highlights excellent "social products" that contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, evaluating both their social and commercial value.

IDEA 2023
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The IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) are organized by the IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) and are one of the world's three major design awards. They focus on industrial design, with evaluation criteria including innovation, user value, and contributions to social responsibility such as environmental consideration.

iF Design Award 2023
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Organized by the iF Industrie Forum Design in Hanover, Germany, this is one of the most renowned and prestigious international design awards, judging industrial products from around the world. It is one of the world's three major design awards.

Good Design Award 2022
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Started in 1950 by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum, this is one of the oldest design awards in the world. Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York) founded this award with pioneers of modern design such as Charles & Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen.

It is not related to Japan's Good Design Award and is a globally highly valued award alongside the Red Dot Design Award and the iF Design Award.

German Design Awards 2023
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This is an international design award organized by the German Design Council, established in 1953. It is a prestigious award where only products that have won design awards in various countries around the world and are recognized as excellent designs are nominated by the German Design Council.

DFA Design for Asia Awards 2022
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Established in 2003 by the Hong Kong Design Centre, this is an international design award that recognizes excellent designs from an Asian perspective. It is judged and awarded based on four perspectives: overall design excellence, technical applicability, impact on Asia, and commercial and social success.

DNA Paris Design Awards 2022
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The DNA Paris Design Awards is a global design award that honors the best designers in architecture, interior design, landscape design, graphic design, and product design.

Omotenashi Selection 2022
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This award was established with the aim of discovering excellent products and services imbued with Japan's outstanding "omotenashi spirit" and promoting them to the world. It selects "Japan-unique charms that we want to share with the world," including meticulous craftsmanship born from a consideration for users, and creative ingenuity that improves upon traditions.

A’ Design Award & Competition 2022
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This is one of the world's largest design competitions, selecting the best designs, design concepts, products, and services. It is globally recognized as a barometer for the quality and completeness of design.

iF Design Award 2022
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Organized by the iF Industrie Forum Design in Hanover, Germany, this is one of the most renowned and prestigious international design awards, judging industrial products from around the world. It is one of the world's three major design awards.

Red Dot Award 2022
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As one of the world's three major design awards, this is one of the most prestigious international design awards, receiving over 10,000 entries annually from companies, organizations, and designers in over 60 countries worldwide. It is organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany.

London International Creative Competition 2021
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This competition aims to serve as a medium connecting talented artists with international audiences, with artists participating from all over the world. Distinguished individuals from six fields (architecture, interior, art, graphic, photography, and product) serve as judges, and it has been held annually since 2006, based in London, a hub for highly acclaimed international artists.

IDA Design Awards 2021
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Established in Los Angeles in 2007, this international design award seeks to discover and recognize visionary design excellence across a wide range of fields.

Comprising five categories—architecture, interior, product, fashion, and graphic design—it annually showcases a selection of outstanding works by talented designers from around the world.

NY Product Design Awards 2021
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This is an award specializing in product design, organized by the International Award Associate (USA), newly established in 2021.

Its purpose is to recognize excellent product designers who enrich daily life, and in its inaugural year, it received over 500 entries from around the world.

MUSE Design Awards 2021
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This is one of the international award programs organized by the International Award Associate (USA), which aims to create new standards of value in design. It is awarded to designers who possess overwhelming creativity and technical prowess, like a "Muse."

European Product Design Award 2021
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This design competition was established to honor the efforts of talented international product designers. The most beautiful, functional, and innovative products are selected from thousands of design projects submitted from around the world.

K-DESIGN AWARD 2021
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This is an international design competition organized by the Korean design portal "DESIGNSORI." It is one of the prestigious design awards recognized as one of Asia's three major design awards, alongside the "GOLDEN PIN DESIGN AWARD" and the "DFA Design for Asia Awards."

Omotenashi Selection 2021
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This award was established with the aim of discovering excellent products and services imbued with Japan's outstanding "omotenashi spirit" and promoting them to the world. It selects "Japan-unique charms that we want to share with the world," including meticulous craftsmanship born from a consideration for users, and creative ingenuity that improves upon traditions.

Omotenashi Selection 2020
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This award was established with the aim of discovering excellent products and services imbued with Japan's outstanding "omotenashi spirit" and promoting them to the world. It selects "Japan-unique charms that we want to share with the world," including meticulous craftsmanship born from a consideration for users, and creative ingenuity that improves upon traditions.

Campfire Crowdfunding Award 2020
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This award recognizes particularly outstanding endeavors among over ten thousand projects hosted on the crowdfunding platform Campfire.