Groundbreaking design often begins with a prototype.
Prototyping is to design an original idea into a form that has the potential to lead to the next step.
The KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2025 seeks designs pointing the way to the future and serving as a catalyst.
Your design will inspire others and become a vector for the future.
We look forward to seeing your “prototype” not bound by existing thinking or limited to mockups or ideas.
Prototyping is to design an original idea into a form that has the potential to lead to the next step.
The KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2025 seeks designs pointing the way to the future and serving as a catalyst.
Your design will inspire others and become a vector for the future.
We look forward to seeing your “prototype” not bound by existing thinking or limited to mockups or ideas.
NEWS
NEWJuly. 26, 2024
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
Tsuyoshi Tane
Founder of Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects / Architect
Nao Tamura
Designer
Teruhiro Yanagihara
TERUHIRO YANAGIHARA STUDIO / Creative Director and Designer
Satoshi Yoshiizumi
Principal of TAKT PROJECT Inc. / Designer
