It all begins with someone's experience.
There are things you can understand—and social issues you can perceive—precisely because of who you are.
When you create a design by examining an idea born from your unique, lived experience from various angles and digging deeper,
it can spread through society by rippling outward and resonating with others.
What we seek to discover this year is the "future standard" born through that kind of spirit.
A design that emerges from the micro self toward the macro society.
We look forward to the ripple your unique stone might create.
There are things you can understand—and social issues you can perceive—precisely because of who you are.
When you create a design by examining an idea born from your unique, lived experience from various angles and digging deeper,
it can spread through society by rippling outward and resonating with others.
What we seek to discover this year is the "future standard" born through that kind of spirit.
A design that emerges from the micro self toward the macro society.
We look forward to the ripple your unique stone might create.
NEWS
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WHAT IS
THE KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD?
KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD is an international competition for product design
that aims to co-create with talented designers
and support their activities.
Since its establishment, excellent product designs have been selected
from entries that represent current social conditions,
and award-winning works have been turned into commercial products
through co-creation between KOKUYO developers and the award winners.
By delivering designs to the world that breathe new life
into the tools we regularly use in our daily lives and at work
as reliable products, KOKUYO aims to support the future activities of designers
and at the same time, bring you a tomorrow you can't wait for.
More than 24 years have passed since the founding of the award,
and more than 20 products have been created to date.
It is continuing to evolve as a project that conveys value reflecting the times,
and not simply as something to be selected and awarded.
JUDGES
Shogo Kishino
Representative of 6D-K /
Art Director and Graphic Designer
Nao Tamura
Designer
Kunihiko Morinaga
ANREALAGE / Designer
Teruhiro Yanagihara
Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio / Designer
Satoshi Yoshiizumi
Principal of TAKT PROJECT Inc. / Designer
