Beauty and Innovation, Recognized Worldwide

Social Products Award 2025
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This is the first award system in Japan to highlight excellent "social products" that contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, evaluating both social and product aspects.

IDEA 2023
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The IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) is hosted by the IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) and is one of the world's three major design awards. Targeting industrial design, it evaluates innovation, user value, and contribution to social responsibility, such as environmental consideration.

iF Design Award 2023
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This design award is organized by the Hannover Industrial Design Association in Germany, and is one of the most prestigious and authoritative international design awards, judging industrial products from all over the world. It is one of the world's three major design awards.

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

It is not related to Japan's Good Design Award and is a globally valuable 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. Only products that have won design awards around the world and are recognized as excellent designs, and have been recommended by The German Design Council, are eligible to be candidates for this prestigious award.

DFA Design for Asia Awards 2022
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Established by the Hong Kong Design Centre in 2003, this is an international design award that recognizes excellent design 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 recognizes 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 and spreading excellent Japanese products and services that embody the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality) to the world. It recognizes techniques born from a considerate spirit for users and innovative efforts to improve while inheriting tradition as "unique Japanese charms to be showcased to the world."

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 of design quality and perfection.

iF Design Award 2022
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This design award is organized by the Hannover Industrial Design Association in Germany, and is one of the most prestigious and authoritative international design awards, judging industrial products from all over 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, it is one of the most prestigious international design awards, receiving over 10,000 entries annually from companies, organizations, and designers in more than 60 countries worldwide. It is organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany.

London International Creative Competition 2021
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Aimed at being a medium to connect talented artists with international audiences, artists from all over the world participate. Distinguished figures from six fields (architecture, interior, art, graphic, photography, and product) serve as judges, and it has been held annually since 2006, based in London, where highly acclaimed international artists gather.

IDA Design Awards 2021
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Established in Los Angeles in 2007 to discover and recognize visionary design excellence across a wide range of fields, it is an international design award. Composed of five categories: architecture, interior, product, fashion, and graphic, it annually gathers a selection of outstanding works by talented designers from around the world.

NY Product Design Awards 2021
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This award, newly established in 2021 and hosted by the International Award Associate (USA), specializes in product design.

Aimed at recognizing outstanding product designers who enrich daily life, its inaugural year saw over 500 entries from around the world.

MUSE Design Awards 2021
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This is one of the international award programs hosted by the International Award Associate (USA), aiming 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 celebrate 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 hosted by the Korean design portal "DESIGNSORI." It is one of Asia's three major prestigious 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 and spreading excellent Japanese products and services that embody the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality) to the world. It recognizes techniques born from a considerate spirit for users and innovative efforts to improve while inheriting tradition as "unique Japanese charms to be showcased to the world."

Omotenashi Selection 2020
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This award was established with the aim of discovering and spreading excellent Japanese products and services that embody the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality) to the world. It recognizes techniques born from a considerate spirit for users and innovative efforts to improve while inheriting tradition as "unique Japanese charms to be showcased to the world."

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

Omotenashi Selection 2019
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This award was established with the aim of discovering and spreading excellent Japanese products and services that embody the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality) to the world. It recognizes techniques born from a considerate spirit for users and innovative efforts to improve while inheriting tradition as "unique Japanese charms to be showcased to the world."

iF DESIGN AWARD 2019
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One of the world's three major design awards, the iF DESIGN AWARD, is organized by iF International Forum Design GmbH and has been one of the most prestigious design awards in the world since 1953. The iF logo is widely recognized globally as a "mark of excellent design." Over 7,000 entries from 50 countries are reviewed annually.

A’ Design Award & Competition 2019
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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 of design quality and perfection.

DFA Design for Asia Awards 2019
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Established by the Hong Kong Design Centre in 2003, this is an international design award that recognizes excellent design 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.

European Product Design Award 2019
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This design competition was established to celebrate 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.

IDEA 2018
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The IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) is hosted by the IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) and is one of the world's three major design awards. Targeting industrial design, it evaluates innovation, user value, and contribution to social responsibility, such as environmental consideration.

Asia Design Prize 2018
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This is an international design competition hosted by the Korean design portal "DESIGNSORI." It is the first public service award in Asia that aims to solve social problems in Asia through design. Designs that address social issues such as abnormal weather, inequality, racial discrimination, and food crises are recognized.

Omotenashi Selection 2018
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This award was established with the aim of discovering and spreading excellent Japanese products and services that embody the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality) to the world. It recognizes techniques born from a considerate spirit for users and innovative efforts to improve while inheriting tradition as "unique Japanese charms to be showcased to the world."

Social Products Award 2018
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This is the first award system in Japan to highlight excellent "social products" that contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, evaluating both social and product aspects.

Omotenashi Selection 2017
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This award was established with the aim of discovering and spreading excellent Japanese products and services that embody the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality) to the world. It recognizes techniques born from a considerate spirit for users and innovative efforts to improve while inheriting tradition as "unique Japanese charms to be showcased to the world."

Omotenashi Selection 2017
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This award was established with the aim of discovering outstanding Japanese products and services brimming with "omotenashi" (hospitality) and promoting them to the world. It recognizes meticulously crafted techniques born from a spirit of care for the user, and creative ingenuity that builds upon tradition while continuously improving it, selecting these as "distinctly Japanese charms we want to share with the world."