FROM CONTEST TO MARKET

Ever since it was established in 2002, the KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD has
continually turned award-winning works into commercial products.
It has given a commercial launch to a total of 20 winning works.
It’ll continue to deliver designs that create new insights about our daily lives.

Pencil of Memories

We gave wood a new shape by using materials set to be discarded after fulfilling their purpose as part of a building or a piece of furniture.

Notebook for Black and White Writing

The design proposes a gray notebook that you can write in in both black and white ink.

Paper Wrap Note

A notebook shaped like plastic wrap—pull some out and cut off a page in whatever size you like.

Manga Packing Tape

A tape that is printed with comic panels, speech bubbles, and speed lines, and you can draw in pictures and words to convey the feelings that you want to get across.

Word Block

Word cards with a binder ring that doubles as an elastic band, enabling the cards to be kept neatly stacked in a block.

True Measure

This ruler indicates the position of boundary lines created between two faces lined up a regular intervals, providing a more accurate measurement of length.

A string of beautiful days…

A calendar where numbers are sewn with a single thread. When you pull the thread the numbers gradually unravel and disappear.

Embossed Notebook

The designs on this notebook are expressed solely through embossing instead of printing. You can also feel the movement of the light falling on the pressed ruled lines.

Bubble Liner

This is a ruler with the scale expressed by bubbles. By incorporating organic bubbles into tools that we use in our everyday lives that are made up of artificial straight lines, we can acquire the beauty of nature in our daily lives.

Stoop

The inspiration that came from the Japanese cushion.
“Stoop” can be used indoors and outdoors by everyone, enabling them to sit down or gather together anywhere.

Wagomu

It is a rubber band made from silicon using the motif of the decorative Japanese twisted paper bowknot ties (Mizuhiki) that have the meaning of "may it happen many times".