The internationally acclaimed awards honour projects that drive innovation, embrace responsibility and open up new perspectives through design. Initiated by the German Design Council, the German Design Awards stand for design excellence with purpose — interdisciplinary in thinking, globally connected, and strategically relevant.
The German Design Awards have been presented by the German Design Council since 2012 as an international accolade for outstanding design that makes an impact. Their roots go back to the Federal Award for Good Design, a long-standing benchmark for design quality in Germany. Today, the awards keep their eyes firmly on the future: by tackling themes like Circular Design or AI, drawing on the cross-industry, global network of the German Design Council, and building on more than 70 years of experience linking design with business.
