Kokuyo Design Award 2026 (¥2,000,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: October 8, 2025

Applications are open for the Kokuyo Design Award 2026. The Kokuyo Design Award is a world competitors for product design that goals to co-create with proficient designers and assist their actions. 

Since its institution, glorious product designs have been chosen from entries that signify present social circumstances, and award-successful works have been changed into industrial merchandise by means of co-creation between KOKUYO builders and the award winners. By delivering designs to the world that breathe new life into the instruments we usually use in our every day lives and at work as dependable merchandise, KOKUYO goals to assist the longer term actions of designers and on the similar time, convey you a tomorrow you possibly can’t anticipate.

More than 24 years have handed for the reason that founding of the award, and greater than 20 merchandise have been created so far. It is continuous to evolve as a venture that conveys worth reflecting the instances, and never merely as one thing to be chosen and awarded.

Prizes

• Grand Prix (one from all entries) ¥2,000,000 (about $14,000)
• Merit Award (three from all entries) ¥500,000 (about $3,500) per winner
• NEW GENERATION AWARD (max ten winners) ¥30,000 (about $210) per winner

Eligibility

• Corporations, organizations, people, and teams are all welcome, no matter age, intercourse, skilled background, or nationality.
• Only designs which have by no means earlier than been proven publicly (in Japan or different international locations) are eligible for entry.
• Eligible entries embrace any stationery, furnishings or software utilized in working, studying and residing scenes.

Application

Registrations/Design submissions will likely be accepted starting July 25 to 12:00 (midday) JST on October 8, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Kokuyo Design Award.