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Good Design Award 2015
Tutorial Book for Judges
Contents
1 The System of Good Design Award
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2 Deﬁnition of Design in Good Design Award
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3 Mission of the Good Design Award and a Request for Judges
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4 Judging Policy
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4-1．Deﬁnition of Good Design
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4-2．Judging Viewpoints
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5 Award Types and Statuses
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6 Judging Method
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6-1．Judging Unit
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6-2．Structure of Judging Units
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7 Topical Issue（newly instituted）
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8 General Flow of Screening（schedule）
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9 Screening Details
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9-1．Basic rules
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9-2．Judge General Meeting
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9-3．First Screening
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9-4．First Screening Panel
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9-5．Judges Recommendation
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9-6．Second Screening Panel
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9-7．Screening Conﬁrmation Panel（only Unit Leaders participate in the panel）
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9-8．Best 100 Selection Panel（only Unit Leaders and Topical Issue Directors participate in the Panel）
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9-9．Composition of Evaluation Comments
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9-10．Special Awards Panel（only Unit Leaders and Topical Issue Directors participate in the Panel）
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9-11．Screening Comment Meeting（held in each Judging Unit）
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9-12．Awards Ceremony
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10 Other Special Mentions
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The System of Good Design Award
Good Design Award is a comprehensive design commendation system organized by Japan Institute of
Design Promotion (JDP) for the purpose of leading our lives, industry, and society at large to be better
through selecting Good Designs from various events and commending them. The system leads to the
creation of future society in cooperation with Applicants. The Good Design Award is a system not just to
select good designs but to lead the creation of future society in cooperation with Applicants through cycle
of the three points below:
Select quality standards in the
Select good
designs which
advance
society
current society and designs
pioneering the future society
through the Good Design Award
screening.
The share brings awareness for
new creation and the awareness
Share the
designs widely
in society
with G Mark
Awareness for
next creation
is generated
becomes the prompt for the
design in society with award recipients
and with the G Mark.
next quality standards.
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Convey and share the goodness of the
Deﬁnition of Design in Good Design Award
The word design is used with various meanings in the world and the interpretations of the word varies from
person to person. However, many of the interpretations could be integrated, as follows:
1．Design as a noun (the shape of a tangible or intangible object, appearance)
2．Design as a verb (actions to think and generate new tangible and intangible objects)
In the Good Design Award, the word design is regarded especially as 2, or a verb. Design is deﬁned as
endless and continuous creative thinking activities to make our lives better.
When regarding design as activity or action,
thought or philosophy is required and a newly generated
tangible or intangible object is seen as one solution. In the Good Design Award, comprehensive screening is
conducted with asking Is the solution appropriate for the purpose? as well as Does the solution lead a
chain of creation in the future society? , focusing on thought or philosophy which has been infused when
deriving the solution and the methodology which is used in the process of deriving the solution.
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Mission of the Good Design Award and a Request for Judges
So many designs surround us in the forms of tangible and intangible objects. The purpose of the Good
Design Award is not only to evaluate a design as a unity of shapes and colors but also to interpret will,
thought, methodology, and proposal for the future infused in the design and convey them in a simple
way, in order to provide awareness for the future creation.
The Good Design Award will plan various means to provide such awareness in screening and other settings.
We would like you to understand your role to provide Applicants and citizens with awareness for future
activities and participate in screening and various other projects.
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Judging Policy
4-1．Deﬁnition of Good Design
The Good Design Award has decided ﬁve items called Good Design Award Ideals which are necessary
requirements for good designs as judging policy. In the Good Design Award screening, the ﬁrst thing to be
questioned is if the applied objects have any outstanding nature in regard to the recitals.
Good Design Award Ideals
HUMANITY
… the creativity that guides the making of things
HONESTY
… the ability to clearly see the nature of modern society
INNOVATION
… the vision to open up the future
ESTHETICS
… the imagination to evoke a rich life and culture
ETHICS
… the thoughtfulness to shape society and the environment
4-2．Judging Viewpoints
The Good Design Award places primary importance upon selecting creative activities (actions to generate
new tangible and intangible objects) which contribute to the creation of a better society. That is, the
screening is conducted not only to question the quality of products, projects, and activities themselves, but
also to judge if the applied tangible and intangible objects are good for the future society (whether or not
the activities should be supported) from comprehensive and multiple near-future perspectives, taking into
consideration contribution to or impact on industry and society as well as importance. Also, please conduct
screening with the viewpoints below when making judgment:
Human perspective
○ Whether due considerations, including usability, understandability, and friendliness, etc.,
are given to users
○ Whether various considerations, including safety, security, environment, physically weak persons,
etc., are given to maintain the credibility
○ Whether the design gains sympathy of users
○ Whether the design has attractiveness and induces users creativity
Industrial perspective
○ Whether issues are skillfully solved by using new technology and materials or through creativity
○ Whether the item is reasonably designed or planned with appropriate technology, method,
and quality
○ Whether the item contributes to the creation of new industry or business
Social perspective
○ Whether the item contributes to the creation of new culture, such as a new method, lifestyle,
communication, etc.
○ Whether the item contributes to the realization of the sustainable society
○ Whether the item suggests new value, such as a new method, concept, style, etc. to society
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Award Types and Statuses
The Good Design Award has two main stages. One is a stage to focus on many steady eﬀorts with consistent,
solid, and step-by-step advances which constitute society and to present future quality standard through
the stage. This is the Good Design Award. The other is a stage to commend extremely and outstandingly
good designs and to suggest tomorrow s possibilities. These are Good Design Best 100 and Good
Design Special Awards, which are selected from among the Good Design Best 100.
Based on these stages, the Good Design Award consists of the awards below. Also, new special awards could
be installed through judging processes.
GOOD DESIGN AWARD
This is the most principal and an essential award of the Good Design Award.
Good designs which can be future standards are selected from all Subject Entries based
on the judging viewpoints, and commended.
GOOD DESIGN BEST 100
Advanced designs which are remarkably good and can be future viewpoints
are selected from among Good Design Award winning objects and commended.
GOOD DESIGN SPECIAL AWARDS
● GOOD DESIGN GRAND AWARD
The best design is selected from among all Good Design Award winning
objects by votes from Judges, award recipients, and others.
● GOOD DESIGN GOLD AWARD
This is a special award to commend high quality designs which have
solved issues of the era in more advanced ways.
● GOOD DDESIGN AWARD of Small and Medium Enterprises
This is a special award to commend ambitious initiatives by small and
medium enterprises.
● GOOD DESIGN AWARD of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
This is a special award to commend comprehensive eﬀorts for regional
revitalizations.
● GOOD DESIGN for the Future Award
This is a special award to commend pioneering designs which develop a
foundation of future society.
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Judging Method
6-1．Judging Unit
The Good Design Awards are basically judged through discussion. However, because of the wide-ranging
domains of Subject Entries, groups to judge the Subject Entries professionally (hereafter, Judging Units )
are formed according to genres, and each Judging Unit holds discussion and decides whether to pass the
Subject Entry. In addition, each Judging Unit places a Judging Unit Leader who coordinates the unit. The
Judging Unit Leader basically has authority to make ﬁnal decisions for various decision issues which have
arisen in each Judging Unit. When the decision issue is hard for the Judging Unit Leader to judge, the Chair
and Vice Chair make a ﬁnal decision.
Unit ○○
Divide
Subject Entries
審査ユニット
Unit Leader
Judge
Judge
Unit ○○
Unit Leader
Judge
Judge
Unit ○○
Unit Leader
Judge
Judge
審査
・・・
・・・
・・・
・・・
6-2．Structure of Judging Units
In 2015 , Judging Units are planned to be formed according to the classiﬁcation below. However, they could
be changed in consideration of the number of entries of each Judging Unit.
Layer
Unit No
Unit Name (draft)
Entries
１
Life Product 1
Personal accessories, Stationery, Educational materials and tools
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Life Product 2
Household goods, Home appliances
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Life Product 3
Kitchen utensils, Furniture, Lighting
４
Life Product 4
Sporting, outdoor, hobbies, Beauty/Health goods
５
Information equipment
Electrical communication appliances
６
Facilities
Fixtures for housing
７
Transportation
Transportation equipment and facilities
８
Professional equipment
Equipment and facilities for production and manufacturing
Space
９
Housing
Housing and living space
10
Facilities and interior
Interior design, Architecture and facilities for business/public
Media
11
Media
Publicity, advertisement and media contents, food
System
12
Systems for general use
Software, services, and systems/Interfaces
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Systems for business use
Software/Services/Systems for commercial use
Activity
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Activities
Social platforms, Education/Promotion/Support methods
Fusion
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Experimental※
Leading-edge design for individuals and public
Product
※The Experimental and pioneering designs unit will be a specially formed unit centering on the Chair and Vice Chair.
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Topical Issue（newly instituted）
Topical Issue is a new system introduced from 2015. Topical Issue means a theme considered important for
the future society. To conduct deep discussions on these themes, special teams are formed by Topical Issue
Directors who are in charge of such themes and the teams carry out discussions about possibilities in the
future society along with each theme, while observing Subject Entries. The discussion contents are referred
to in the screening for Special Awards and are written down as opinions in the exhibition of Good Design
Award winning objects, Good Design Exhibition (G-Exhibition) of this year.
Topical Issues in 2015
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Community / locality
2
Infrastructure / mobility
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Global environment / energy
4
Disaster prevention / disaster reduction / disaster reconstruction
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Medical care / welfare
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Safety / security
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Information / communication
8
Advanced technology
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Social capital * 1/ Open architecture* 2
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Education / inheritance* 3
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Business model / way of working
12
Culture of life / mode of life
※1 Social capital
This refers to the characteristics of the social structure such as trust,
norm, and network, which
improve the eﬃciency of society by strengthening people s cooperative behaviors. In the Good Design
Award, this refers to the mode of the community, the social structure and its activities.
※2 Open architecture
This refers to an activity to disclose basic design itself and to facilitate various developments. In the
Good Design Award, this refers to the entire activities of disclosing / sharing various resources and
undertaking development such as an activity by open sources and development by an open
community.
※3 Inheritance
In the Good Design Award, this refers to the entire activity to inherit implicit knowledge inherent in the
community such as tradition and common practice as well as to educate with knowledge and skills.
※ A new theme may be set through screening.
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General Flow of Screening（schedule）
Flow of the GDA
Judges
Target： All Judges
Unit Leaders and Topical Issue Directors
4/2 ∼ 6/3
Application
Period
6/10
Chair explains general policy. In addition, Judges conﬁrm
13:30-16:30
applied subjects (hereafter Subject Entries ), and discuss and
Judge General Meeting
6/10 ∼ 6/22
First Screening
6/11 ∼ 7/1
First
screening
period
6/26
14:00-17:00
First Screening Panel
7/2
Notice of
FirstScreening
results
6/10 ∼ 7/2
Judges Recommendation
8/4 ∼ 8/6
Second Screening Panel
(Japan)
8/5
7/10 ∼ 9/9
Second
screening
period
Interactive Hearing
8/28
11:00-17:00
conﬁrm each Judging Unit s judging policy.
Check Subject Entries you are in charge of on a website and
evaluate them. The results are used as information for the First
Screening Panel.
With referring to each Judge s evaluation, have a discussion in
each Judging Unit using application documents, and decide
whether to pass the Subject Entries.
Check a List of Subjects Eligible for Entry and select objects for
which Judges especially recommend participation this year as
Judges Recommendation.
With checking the actual objects of Subject Entries set in a
screening hall, have discussion in each unit and decide whether to
pass the Subject Entries.
Deepen understanding of Subject Entries through questions and
answers with Applicants who come to the screening hall (only
Applicants who wish to come).
Judging Unit Leaders mutually conﬁrm screening results decided in
each unit, and make the ﬁnal decision of passing or failing the
Subject Entries. At the same time, the Best 100 are selected through
9/10
Screening Conﬁrmation Panel
9/29
8/6 ∼ 9/4
Write appreciated points of award winning objects on the website
Evaluation Comments
in order to convey what is excellent. The contents will be released
Unoﬃcial notice
of winning
Announcement of
recipients/Best 100
Best 100 Selection Panel
on the website.
10/1
11:00-17:00
10/30
Announcement of
discussion.
Special Awards Panel
Select Special Awards by vote and discussion. Also, conduct
discussion about Topical Issues.
Special Awards
10/30 ∼ 11/4 Exhibition
（Best 100 designers presentations）
This is an event to present views obtained through judging to
10/30 ∼ 11/4
Applicants and provide awareness for Applicants future.
Screening Comment Meeting
11/4 Awards Ceremony
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Give Commendation Certiﬁcates to all award recipients who
have won Good Design Awards.
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Screening Details
9-1．Basic rules
The Good Design Award sets the rules written below to carry out fair and impartial screening. Please engage
in the screening while strictly observing the rules below:
１．Intervention by a Judge in the judgment of a Entry in which the Judge is involved is forbidden
The Chair, Vice Chair, and Judges shall not judge an object which is designed or consulted by
the Judge himself or herself. Any involvement in the screening of the object, including
provision of related information, is forbidden.
２．Conﬁdentiality of judging information
The Chair, Vice Chair, and Judges shall submit a conﬁdentiality-related written oath to the
Organizer before staring judgment. It is forbidden to betray to a third party any conﬁdential
information related to screened items which came to be known through screening, such as
secret about screened items or screening details.
9-2．Judge General Meeting
This is a meeting to conﬁrm general policy, concrete judging methods, judging policy, and other aspects of
this year before actually conducting judgment.
Task
１．Conﬁrmation of general policy of screening
The Chair gives guidance about general policy of this year s screening.
２．Check of the List of Entry, decision of judging policy and discussion of Judges Recommendation
Check the List of Subjects Eligible for Entry of your unit, have discussion centering on the unit leader, and decide
concrete judging methods (whether or not On-site Screening or hearing is conducted, etc.) and policy. In
addition, conduct discussion about objects to be chosen as Judges Recommendation.
３．Examination of objects to be moved to another unit
Check the List of Subjects Eligible for Entry and at this stage, decide policy to move Subject Entries to another
unit about Subject Entries which can be judged as a Subject Entry which should be moved to another Judging
Unit, after consulting the Judging Unit to accept the Subject Entry. However, because the applied category is
announcement from Applicants about points to be focused on, please esteem this will as much as possible.
About the movement between units, please conduct it according to the standards below:
Ａ．A Subject Entry whose contents or main point is apparently diﬀerent from a domain of the unit concerned.
Ｂ．A Subject Entry which is not expected to be highly valued but could be highly valued by another unit.
9-3．First Screening
Individual evaluation for eﬃcient management of First Screening Panel.
Task
１．Evaluate by circles and crosses (good or bad) and ﬁll in comments
Check the List of Subjects Eligible for Entry of your unit and its detailed information, then ﬁll in evaluation by
circles and crosses (good or bad) and comments to tell other Judges for screening while referring to judging
policy and viewpoints. They are used as information for judgment in the discussion at the First Screening Panel.
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9-4．First Screening Panel
Passing or failing of Subject Entries is judged through this panel for the purpose of selecting objects whose
actual objects should be judged in the second screening.
Task
１．Decide Subject Entries which pass the First Screening
Because actual objects are judged in the Second Screening Panel, a lot of burdens will be imposed on Applicants.
Please regard the ﬁrst screening as a task to reduce unnecessary burdens imposed on Applicants as much as
possible. Therefore, please judge in the ﬁrst screening with a viewpoint of whether or not to let the object pass
in principle.
２．Examine objects for which additional data is required in the Second Screening Panel, and objects
which require special screening.
Some Subject Entries are judged to require special actions, such as presentations, On-site Screening, and
checking additional data submitted in the form of videos etc. Please examine which object requires a special
action.
３．Examine objects to be chosen as Judges Recommendation
Please discuss what kind of objects should be recommended as Judges Recommendation (described later).
Judging
Methods
Detailed information about each Subject Entry is written on a piece of paper (hereafter, the paper is called
Application Sheet, and ﬁled in order of the number of votes obtained, on a table of each Judging Unit. Check
the Application Sheets, and discuss and decide whether to pass the Subject Entry centering on a Unit Leader,
based on the standards below. In case the Subject Entry needs to be moved to another unit, please deal with it in
the same process as the Judge General Meeting.
（ Standards to decide to fail a Subject Entry in First Screening ）
１．The Subject Entry is deviant from Good Design Award Ideal
Please fail a Subject Entry when it is deviant from the ﬁve ideals of the Good Design Award.
２．The Subject Entry could be in contravention of application rules
Please fail a Subject Entry when it is obviously supposed not to be able to meet the application condition that
users can purchase or use the object by the end of March 2016.
３．Subject Entries which can be seen to have obviously low value or quality.
Please fail a Subject Entry if it has obviously low value or quality when seen from each viewpoint written in 4-2.
Judging Viewpoints.
Special
Screening
In the Second Screening, alternative items such as panels are exhibited for objects which are diﬃcult to install
(architecture, large equipment, etc.). Also, details of some Subject Entries need to be explained, depending on
the nature of the Subject Entries. That is, some Subject Entries require special screening as below, depending on
their nature.
１．Screening for Undisclosed Subject Entries
The application rule of the Good Design Award is that tangible and intangible objects which can be purchased
or used by users by March 31 of the next year. Therefore, an object can be applied even if it is on the way of
development or cannot be disclosed as a product when the Second Screening Panel is conducted. In this case,
screening will be conducted in a room which has high conﬁdentiality and is diﬀerent from the ordinal screening
hall on a designated date and in a short time, in order to prevent information leakage to people other than
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Judges and assistants. In this case, interactive screening is also conducted at the same time.
２．On-site Screening
Some objects which are diﬃcult to install are judged that the actual object should be checked on site in the
discussion of each Judging Unit. In this case, each Judging Unit requests On-site Screening to Applicants, and
judges the object by checking the actual object on site in addition to the Second Screening Panel. The On-site
Screening is conducted within the Second Screening Period (from July 10 to September 9).
３．Other Special Screening
Other than the above, if any special action such as a request of additional information or presentation by an
Applicant is required depending on the nature of the Subject Entries or the contents of Application Sheets, the
way to conduct it is decided through consultation with oﬃce members.
9-5．Judges Recommendation
This is a system that Judges recommend application to objects which have not been applied to the Good
Design Award with their insights, in order to spread and promote the Good Design Award Activity in society.
Task
１．Tell objects to recommend to the oﬃce
Please tell the oﬃce of objects you would like to recommend for application (hereafter, the object is called
Recommended Object ) by July 2. The oﬃce investigates a person who is mainly responsible for the project of
the Recommended Objects (hereafter, the person is called Recommended Person ) indicated by a Judge, and
rapidly induces application.
Rules
Objects which can be recommended
Those which have not been applied to the Good Design Award, but can be recommended as good design by a
Judge with his or her insights. However, objects which are designed or consulted by a Judge cannot be
recommended by the Judge himself or herself (self-nomination).
Judges who can make recommendation
All Judges can make recommendation for all Judging Units.
Screening for Recommended Objects
Recommended Objects are regarded as having passed the ﬁrst screening and participate in screening from the
Second Screening Panel.
Recommended Objects are judged in the same way as regular Subject Entries in the Second Screening.
Reduction of fees for Recommended Objects
For the improvement of active participation by Recommended Objects, the fees below are reduced to half.
Fees to be reduced to half: second screening fee, exhibition fee in the exhibition of Award winning objects, fees
of publication in the year book of Award winning objects.
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9-6．Second Screening Panel
This is a panel to judge whether to pass the Subject Entries while checking the actual objects which have passed
the ﬁrst screening and have been installed in the screening hall (or alternative objects when diﬃcult to install).
Task
１．Decide Subject Entries which pass the Second Screening
Subject Entries which have passed the Second Screening go through the Screening Conﬁrmation Panel
(described later) and win the Good Design Award. Please judge whether to pass a Subject Entry based on the
actual object of the Subject Entry, an application sheet, and interactive screening (described later), while referring
to the Good Design Award Recitals and Screening Viewpoints.
２．Select Best 100 candidates
The Good Design Award announces 100 award winning objects which are highly valued as designs which
suggest the future to be the Good Design Best 100 at the same time as announcement of award recipients.
Gold Award and other special awards are selected from the Best 100. Based on the results of the Second
Screening Panel, please select approximately 10 objects which can be seen as candidates for special awards
while giving them priorities. In addition, please write about each candidate in relation to Which topical issue is
appropriate for the candidate? If there is no appropriate theme, please write down the name of a theme
separately.
３．Consider advice and comments for Applicants
Please consider advice and comments to be told to Applicants, regardless of passing or failing, through the
Second Screening Panel, in order to provide Applicants awareness. If there is any message, please tell it to an
oﬃce member. The oﬃce examines the detail of the advice and comments, and tells it to Applicants on the
website.
４．Examine evaluation comments and decide a person who composes it
To provide citizens awareness, the good point of the design about each object which has passed screening is
written in a way easy to understand and released as an evaluation comment from Judges. Please discuss
comment composition policy for each object centering on a Unit Leader and decide who is in charge of the
composition.
Judging
Methods
The actual objects of Subject Entries with various natures are installed in the Second Screening. Please discuss
judging methods in each Judging Unit, centering on a Judging Unit Leader, and carry out screening in
appropriate ways for the nature of the actual object. Also, please decide whether to pass the object through
discussion in screening.
In addition, basically an assistant is placed for each Judge in screening.
Judging methods to be assumed regularly are written below. Please set judging methods basically using the
methods as standards.
（Regular Judging Methods ）
１．Check Subject Entries and conduct individual vote (Day 1)
The oﬃce places application sheets in front of each actual object of Subject Entries. Each Judge checks the actual
objects or alternative objects of Subject Entries and their application sheets, and vote on those which are
admitted as excellent design.
２．Check details of Subject Entries which require Interactive Screening (Day 1)
Check the results of the individual vote in the whole Judging Unit. In application sheets of Subject Entries which
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hope to take Interactive Screening, contents which applicants want to be focused on and checked before
Interactive Screening are written in the section of comments for Judges. In so doing, please check what is
３．Interactive Hearing (Day 2)
In the Interactive Screening, Applicants stand by in front of Subject Entries at the designated time. Judges go
around them and deepen further understanding of Subject Entries through questions and answers with
Applicants. For the Interactive Screening, the rules below are set:
(1) Screening time is three minutes per Subject Entry.
(2) Only one person can explain about one Subject Entry.
In addition, time allotment is assumed to be as below in the Interactive Screening. However, when there are
things to focus on and check, time allotment can be changed freely.
(1) Explanation about points of a design by its Applicant (1 to 1.5 minutes)
(2) Questions and answers (1 to 1.5 minutes)
The Interactive Screening is not only judgment but also an occasion to provide awareness for Applicants. Please
feel free to convey awareness you have gotten through screening to Applicants in the form of advice or
comments.
４．Decide to pass or fail Subject Entries through discussion (Day 2 and Day 3)
Hold discussion based on the results of the individual vote and the Interactive Screening, centering on a Judging
Unit Leader, while referring to the Ideals and judging standards, and decide whether to pass Subject Entries.
５．Select Best 100 candidates (Day 2 and Day 3)
Based on the results from 1 to 4 above, hold discussion centering on Judging Unit Leaders and select
approximately 10 Subject Entries which can be seen as Special Award candidates while giving them priority.
６．Consider advice and comments for Applicants (Day 2 and Day 3)
When there are any advice or comments for the future for each Applicant, examine the contents and tell it to
the Judge s assistants.
７．Examine evaluation comments and decide a person who composes it (Day 2 and Day 3)
Discuss composition policy of comments for each Subject Entry, centering on Judging Unit Leaders, and decide
persons who are in charge of the composition.
9-7．Screening Conﬁrmation Panel (only Unit Leaders participate in the panel)
In this panel, Judging Unit Leaders mutually conﬁrm the results of the Second Screening and make a ﬁnal
decision on whether to pass the Subject Entries.
Task
１．Conﬁrm passed and failed Subject Entries decided in the Second Screening
In the Screening Conﬁrmation Panel, please review the results of passing and failing decided in each Judging
Unit and conﬁrm that there is no mistake. Also, please look through the results of other Judging Units and
conﬁrm that there is no objection. If there is any objection, please discuss it with a Judging Unit Leader of the
Unit concerned and decide whether to pass or fail the Subject Entry. In case decision cannot be made through
discussion, the Chair and Vice Chair make ﬁnal judgment.
9-8．Best 100 Selection Panel (only Unit Leaders and Topical Issue Directors participate in the Panel)
This is a panel to select the Good Design Best 100 based on the Best 100 candidates submitted by each
Judging Unit in the Second Screening.
Task
１．Select Good Design Best 100
Selecting Methods depend on the policy of Chair. However, the basic process of selection is that each Judging
Unit Leader explains about all candidates, then Judges vote them and select the Good Design Best 100 through
discussion about the results of the vote.
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9-9．Composition of Evaluation Comments
In this system, a good point of a design is written in a way easy to understand and released as an evaluation
comment from Judges, for the purpose of providing citizens awareness.
Task
１．Compose evaluation comments
Please log in to the screening website and ﬁll in evaluation comments with approximately 200 characters per
passed object. The evaluation comments written here will be used for press release and other publication of
Award winning companies. Therefore, please be careful about expressions when composing them.
9-10．Special Awards Panel (only Unit Leaders and Topical Issue Directors participate in the Panel)
This is a panel to select outstandingly good designs as Special Awards from selected objects for the Good
Design Best 100. In this panel, The Chair and Vice Chair play the role of chairpersons and special Awards are
selected through discussion with all the members.
Task
１．Select Special Awards including Good Design Gold Awards
The Good Design Gold Award and other theme awards are selected from the Good Design Best 100 by vote and
discussion.
２．Select Good Design Grand Award candidates
Good Design Grand Award candidates are selected from the Good Design Best 100 by vote and discussion.
３．Hold discussion about Topical Issues
Discussion is carried out about Topical Issues to discuss the contents of opinions to be organized. Based on the
contents discuss here, theme directors compose opinions and release them at Award winning objects exhibition
(G-exhibition).
9-11．Screening Comment Meeting (held in each Judging Unit)
This meeting is held at the Award winning objects exhibition (G-exhibition). In this meeting, what has been
felt or newly found through screening is conveyed to Applicants and citizens in order to provide new
awareness for Applicants and citizens. Also, this meeting has another aspect as an occasion of Information
Release for failed Applicants.
Task
１．Participate in the Screening Comment Meeting
Please give general comments mainly about general tendency of Subject Entries of my unit,
important
viewpoints in screening, or what was found through screening. About actual methods and contents of the
actual Comment Meeting, please have discussion with each Judging Unit Leader and decide it.
9-12．Awards Ceremony
This is a ceremony to give Commendation Certiﬁcates to all award recipients who have won Good Design
Awards.
Task
１．Participate in the Awards Ceremony
A lot of award recipients join the Awards Ceremony and they are willing to take photos or have talks with Judges.
Please accept these, and actively give them words of congratulation, and advice and comments, in order to
provide new awareness for them. We would appreciate your cooperation.
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10 Other Special Mentions
1．Things which cannot be judged in a Judging Unit
Various decision issues which arose in the process of screening are basically judged through discussion
centering on the Unit Leader of the unit concerned. When the decision issue is diﬃcult to judge here, the
Chair and Vice Chair make a ﬁnal judgment. In this case please follow their judgment.
２．Selection of Good Design Grand Award
The Good Design Grand Award is selected by vote of Judges, Award recipients, and others. The concrete
methods of selection will be announced later.
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