Our friends at Wallpaper* yesterday announced the winners of their 2012 Design Awards. The international panel of judges, this year comprising Grayson Perry, Rafael Vinoly, Simon de Pury, Gerd Bulthaup, and Jean-Paul Goude, selected the top entries in eleven major design categories. Many more awards in highly…

One winning project and two runners-up have recently been announced at the 2011 edition of the James Dyson Awards, an international student design award running in 18 countries. The first prize went to the entry 'AirDrop Irrigation' from Australia. Two top awards went to the design concepts…

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum yesterday announced the winners and finalists of the 2011 National Design Awards. First launched at the White House in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards were established to promote excellence and innovation…

A long list of winners of the 2010 GOOD DESIGN Award was recently announced by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles…

Our friends at Wallpaper* today announced the winners of their 2011 Design Awards program. The annual award series honors exceptional design in eleven different disciplines, spanning from fashion design over architecture to industrial design. This year's panel of judges hosts big names like Pharrell Williams, Mario Bellini,…

Design Miami/, the global forum for design, nominated German designer Konstantin Grcic to be this year´s Desinger of the Year 2010.

Feminine hygiene products made from locally sourced banana leaf fiber in Rwanda; bicycle-powered agricultural machines in Guatemala; and “diagonal” inner city public housing in Chile are the three finalists for the 2010 Curry Stone Design Prize.  The winner will be announced Oct. 13, 2010 at Google’s headquarters in…

Design engineers from 18 countries have entered projects for this year’s James Dyson Award. A panel of judges has already shortlisted the finalists for each country, and the international shortlist will be announced soon. You can get involved by rating each of the finalist entries on the

The Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany honored the design team of Liechtenstein-based company Hilti with one of the highest honorary awards in the world of design: the “red dot: design team of the year 2010”. With this title, the red dot design award…

Just a few more days left to vote for your favorite design at the Athens Bench Mark competition! This international competition called for designers and creative teams to submit designs for new benches throughout Athens, Greece. The contest closed for new submissions on April 6 and is still open for…