Kokuyo 2023 Design Award for Designers Worldwide

The KOKUYO design award is an international product design competition that’s all about bringing together proposals for projects the future needs and giving them form.

The KOKUYO Award is a special award commemorating the 20th anniversary of the KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD. It will be awarded to selected student entrants as a way to support their future work. KOKUYO’s Purpose is, “Bringing you a tomorrow you can’t wait for.” Following that concept, they will select up to 20 outstanding entries that, based on their presentation sheets, make us feel that their futures will be exciting.(without judging the models)

Through the process of thinking deeply about the tools people use in their everyday working, learning, and living scenes, the competition aims to give form to the possibilities of design and the power of products. Be sure to submit your design for the KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2023.

Theme:The theme for the KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2023 is “embrace.”This word carries meanings like “inclusion” and “hugging.” In that same vein, they are looking for product design proposals that make people feel cheerful and positive by accepting and acknowledging the differences between people and the challenges society is facing.

• About KOKUYO
• Kokuyo Design Award
• Aim and Benefits of Kokuyo Design Award
• Requirements for Kokuyo Design Award Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Kokuyo Design Award
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About KOKUYO

The KOKUYO Group philosophy is to enrich the world through our products. We are constantly looking for ways to make people more creative through careful observation of their lives and work.Stationery is an important tool for intellectual activities, and furniture is an essential factor in composing a space for such activities. By developing products that capture user needs and by offering suggestions on the use of such products, our goal is to develop a more creative society.... read more

Kokuyo Design Award

• Type Entrepreneurs
• OrganisationKOKUYO
• Country to study -
• School to study -
• Course to study Not specified
• State of Origin
• Gender Men and Women
• Application Deadline October 11, 2022

Aim and Benefits of Kokuyo Design Award

• Grand Prix (one winner): ¥2,000,000
• Merit Award (three winners): ¥500,000
• Yokoku Award (up to twenty winners): ¥30,000

The contest organizer will pay expenses incurred by participants for travel and lodging (up to two individuals for group entries).

Requirements for Kokuyo Design Award Qualification

• Any stationery, furniture or tool used in working, learning and living scenes
• The competition accepts entries from any corporation, individual, or group that fulfills all the following requirements, regardless of their age, sex, occupation, or nationality.
• Must be able to give a presentation at the final judging (March 18, 2023).
• Entry eligibility is limited to those designs never before shown publicly (in Japan, other countries).

Interview date, Process and Venue for Kokuyo Design Award

Judging Criteria

• The design includes a proposed solution to some social issue
• The design has components that make people feel positive
• The idea’s uniqueness
• The product design’s feasibility
• The design’s potential to become a product

Application Deadline

How to Apply

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