2024 is a big year for international design awards, and for brands and businesses, the world becomes the stage to introduce cutting-edge products, design and innovation. This article lists all design awards you can apply for in the first quarter of 2024 – including registration dates and fees.
Red Dot Award
The Red Dot Award, which originated in Germany, is the largest and most influential design competition in the world. The Red Dot Award, the German “IF Award” and the American “IDEA Award” are the world’s major design awards. Adhering to the motto of “Pursuing Excellence in Design and Innovation”, the Red Dot Jury evaluates all submitted works and awards the Red Dot Award to the world’s outstanding entries in product design, concept design, brand and communication design.
Design Team of The Year 2023: Logitech
Event Times & Fees
- Early Bird Registration: September 4th – September 29th, 2023 (450€/item)
- Regular Registration: September 30-December 15, 2023 (650€/item)
- Final Registration: December 15, 2023 – January 12, 2024 (850€/item)
- Product Shipping: February 12-March 10, 2024
- Result Notification: 4th, 2024
- Awards Ceremony: June 24, 2024
Awards
- Red Dot Award Best of the Best (winning rights fee: 7500€/item)
- Red Dot Award (Award Rights Fee: 4900€/item)
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ISPO Global Design Awards
The ISPO Global Design Award (ISPO Award) is the only authoritative product selection for the global sports industry. It aims to help the industry find the most breakthrough sports products in product technology, design and performance categories every year.
ISPO Global Design Award 2023 Winners:
Event Time & Fees
- Q1 application date: Deadline on January 17, 2024
- Q2 application date: Deadline April 13, 2024
- Q3 application date: Deadline: September 7, 2024
- Q4 application date: Deadline: October 12, 2024
Jury
- Q1&Q2:May
- Q3:September
- Q4: November (final review fee is 100 euros/piece; results will be announced within 2-3 days after the review meeting)
Awards
- ISPO Global Design Awards·Best Product of the Year Award
- ISPO Global Design Gold Award
- ISPO Global Design Award
- Award-winning rights fee: 5,900 euros/item
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American IDEA Design Award
American IDEA Award, also known as the International Design Excellence Awards, is an industrial design competition sponsored by BusinessWeek and judged by IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America). Winning an IDEA is a career defining moment and puts your design on a global platform, gaining it industry recognition alongside some of the most lauded products of all time.
Some of the world’s most successful and popular products are IDEA winners. This fact further enriches IDEA’s history of only recognizing the very best submissions each year. For many designers, IDEA sets the standard for examples of exceptional design and is frequently used as a reference when developing new products.
2023 Winner: Sonos Home Theater Packaging
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Event Time & Fees
- Regular Registration: January 3-February 20, 2024 (655$/item)
- Additional Registration: February 21-March 11, 2024 (895$/item)
- Preliminary Evaluation Results Announcement: 2024.4 (final evaluation fee: 775$/item)
- Product shipping: (to be determined)
- Final evaluation results announced: (to be determined)
- Award Ceremony: (to be determined)
Awards
- IDEA Gold Award
- IDEA Silver Award
- IDEA Bronze Award
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German Red Dot Design Concept Award
The Red Dot Award is the largest and most influential design competition in the world. The Red Dot Award, together with the German “IF Award” and the American “IDEA Award”, are known as the world’s three major design awards. Adhering to the motto of “Pursuing Excellence in Design and Innovation”, the Red Dot Jury consists of three parts: product design, concept design and brand and communication design.
Event Time & Fees
- Early Bird Registration: December 1, 2023 – January 24, 2024 (S$300/item)
- Regular Registration: January 25-March 13, 2024 (S$450/item)
- Final Registration: March 14-April 23, 2024
- (S$600/item)
- Product Shipping: April 15-April 30, 2024
- Result Notification: June 2024
- Awards Ceremony: October 2024
Awards
- Red Dot Award Best of the Best (winning rights fee: S$6,000/item)
- Red Dot Award (Red Dot Award Rights Fee: S$4,000/item)
- Red Dot Star Award Red Dot: Luminary
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American MUSE Design Award
MUSE Design Awards was founded in New York, USA. Hosted by International Awards Associates (IAA), a long-established international awards association, it is one of the most influential international awards in the global creative field, aiming to discover and commend six significant categories, including architecture, interior and fashion. Outstanding figures in the design field are known for their strict review system and high-quality review standards, attracting world-renowned brands with designers participating every year. MUSE Design Awards aims to recognize artists annually who have made outstanding achievements in communication arts.
2023 Winner: Hive Bee
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Event Time & Fees
- Early Bird Registration: October 13-November 9, 2023 (229$/item)
- Regular Registration: November 10-December 7, 2023 (239$/item)
- Additional Registration: December 8, 2023 – January 11, 2024 (259$/item)
- Delayed Registration: January 12-February 29, 2024 (269$/item)
- Announcement of Award Results: April 2024
Awards
- MUSE Design Platinum Award
- MUSE Design Gold Award
- MUSE Design Silver Award
- Annual Design Award (1 per category)
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French Design Award
Established in 2015 by the International Association of Design Awards (IAA), the French Design Award is an international competition that celebrates and recognizes the pinnacle of creative talent in interior, architecture, product and packaging design. This prestigious award recognizes and celebrates architects, interior designers, and product and packaging designers who not only shaped environments but reimagined how design is perceived and inhabited and how it interacts with space. The French Design Award jury is composed of world-renowned design experts and professors representing world-class design standards. Winning the French Design Award is equivalent to being recognized by world-renowned design masters.Â
2023 Winner: Xingang Chen’s Label Design for the “Intoxicated Love for Great Wall” Semi-sweet Red Wine
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Event Time & Fees
- Early Bird Registration: September 12-October 17, 2023 (209$/item)
- Regular Registration: October 18-November 14, 2023 (219$/item)
- Additional Registration: November 15-December 12, 2023 (229$/item)
- Delayed Registration: December 13, 2023 – January 16, 2024 (239$/item)
- Announcement of Award Results: March 2024
Awards
- Platinum Award, Gold Award and Silver Award
- Annual Design Award (1 in each category of interior/architecture/product/packaging design)
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Pentawards
Pentawards is the world’s first and only competition focusing on various packaging designs and is known as the Oscars of the packaging design industry. Since its inception in 2007, the annual Pentawards competition has hired 12 globally renowned designers and packaging design directors from well-known companies to form a professional judging team to evaluate packaging design works worldwide.
2023 Winners:
- The Diamond – Best Of Show award went to Casa Marrazzo 1934, designed by Auge Design.
- The Diamond – Best Of Show award went to Casa Marrazzo 1934, designed by Auge Design.
- The Branding & Consumer Platinum award went to Bigface Coffee Packaging, designed by Zenpack.Â
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Event Time & Fees
- 48-hour launch rate: January 29-January 30, 2024 (295€/item)
- Super early bird: January 31st – February 2nd, 2024 (345€/item)
- Early bird registration: February 5-February 16, 2024 (395€/item)
- Regular registration: February 19-March 1, 2024 (455€/item)
- Final registration: March 4th – March 15th, 2024 (495€/item)
- Product shipping: May-June
- Results announced: July
Awards
- Diamond Award, Platinum Award, Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award (Award Rights Fee: 499€ each)
- Rising Star Student Award (Award Benefit Fee: 150€/item)
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New York Product Design Award
The New York Product Design Awards honours the efforts of talented product designers, design teams and manufacturers worldwide whose designs make everyday life better through practical and clever creations. Recognizing that excellence exists in all forms of the design industry, the New York Product Design Awards celebrates all aspects of excellence found in design work and among designers.Â
2023 Winners:
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Event Time & Fees
- Early Bird Phase: November 10-December 13, 2023 (USD 229/item)
- Regular phase: December 14, 2023 – January 24, 2024 (USD 239/item)
- Additional phase: January 25-February 21, 2024 (USD 259/item)
- Additional extension period: February 22-March 20, 2024 (USD 269/item)
- Result announcement: May
Award Establishment
- Product Design of the Year Award
- Product Designer of the Year Award
- Gold Award
- Silver Award
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