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| Red Dot Design Award | | With over 4,000 entries from 40 countries, the annual red dot design award ranks among the largest design competitions worldwide. The competition is divided into two sections - product design and communication design - which are staged and adjudicated separately. The coveted trophy in both is the red dot, the international seal of quality for outstanding design. The award winning products are displayed online and published in a yearbook. | www.red-dot.de - Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - details
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| Electrolux Design Lab | | Electrolux Design Lab is an annual design competition that is open for students from around the world to use their creativityto develop solutions that meet the needs of tomorrow's consumers. It's also an opportunity for students to exchange ideas and discover new possibilities with Electrolux designers. | www.electrolux.com/designlab/ - details
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| IF International Forum Design | | iF provides a broad range of design-related services. We are internationally known thanks to our iF design award, which has been staged since 1954. Today, this award is regarded as one of the most important design competitions worldwide, attracting over 1,800 entries from 30 different countries every year. | www.ifdesign.de - Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany - details
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| International Design Excellence Awards | | The International Design Excellence Awards are dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and the economy. Winning the IDEA is a distinction like no other that brands your design as the very best in the business, among your peers, among your clients, among consumers around the world. | www.idsa.org/idea-2011-gallery - details
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| Good Design Award: G-Mark | | The Good Design Award (G-Mark) is the successor to the Good Design Selection System, which was established by the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1957. Since 1998, the Award has been sponsored by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization, as Japan's only system for assessing and promoting overall design. The Good Design Award is presented for designs that clearly demonstrate merit in the following assessment categories: designs that meet or exceed a certain standard, superior designs, and future-oriented designs. | www.g-mark.org - details
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| Australian International Design Awards | | The Australian International Design Awards is recognised by the Commonwealth Government and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design [ICSID] as the peak promotional body for the Australian design industry. | www.designawards.com.au - Sydney, NSW, Australia - details
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| BraunPrize | | BraunPrize, internationally recognized design competition, open to young industrial designers who are still studying or who have graduated within the last two years. | www.braunprize.com - details
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| The Chicago Athenaeum's Good Design Award | | The Chicago Athenaeum's Good Design Award was established in 1950 by Edgar J. Kaufman, Jr., and is one of the world's oldest and most celebrated awards programs. The program recognizes designers and manufacturers for advancing new and innovative product concepts that push the envelope beyond what is considered standard product and consumer design. | www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/ - details
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| Annual Design Review | | Since 1954, the Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure. Throughout the years, this annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design, and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture. | www.idonline.com/adr - details
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| Kokuyo Design Award | | The Kokuyo Design Award competition was established in 2002, inviting innovative and ingenious ideas that will contribute to the creation of user-oriented products. We have since welcomed a significant number of participants, both from Japan and overseas. | www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/ - details
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| Next-Gen PC Design Competition | | As Microsoft Windows celebrates its 20th
anniversary, Microsoft, IDSA, and ICSID want to envision the future with you
in the form of a competition. The challenge is to envision the future of the
next-generation of Windows-based PC and share that vision with the community
in an open dialogue in The Next-Generation Windows OS PC Design Competition. | www.nextgendesigncomp.com - details
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| Catalyst | | The Design & Business Catalyst Award takes traditional design competitions a step further by recognizing excellence in market and financial performance as well as strategic and social impact. Created by IDSA and BusinessWeek magazine, the competition rewards management's foresight in using the power of design beyond the actual design process. Ravi Sawhney, IDSA, president and CEO, RKS Design, is the initiator of the Catalyst. | www.idsacatalyst.org - details
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| Medical Design Excellence Awards | | The Medical Design Excellence Awards is the premier awards program for the medical technology community. MDEA is open worldwide to companies and individuals involved in the design, engineering, manufacture, or distribution of finished medical devices or medical packaging products. | www.canontradeshows.com/expo/awards/ - Los Angeles, CA, USA - details
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| Materialica Design Award | | The international trade fair for materials applications, surface technology and processes, will present the Materialica Design Award from MunichExpo GmbH. This is now part of a co-operation with the Design Zentrum München (Munich Design Centre). | www.materialicadesign.de - details
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