GOOD DESIGN Award - The Chicago Athenaeum in Illinois, USA

Der GOOD DESIGN Award wurde 1950 gegründet und ist damit der weltweit älteste Designpreis. Gleichzeitig ist er international hoch angesehen und damit einer der begehrtesten Preise für wegweisendes und innovatives Design jenseits der üblichen Produktgestaltungen. Er wird organisiert vom Chicago Athenaeum Museum für Architektur und Design.


Founded in 1950, GOOD DESIGN is the world´s oldest and most celebrated awards program that bestows international recognition upon designers and manufacturers for advancing new and innovative product concepts and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered standard product and consumer design.

The Jury for GOOD DESIGN base their decisions on aesthetic criteria stated in the original 1950 Program—criteria which measures innovation, form, materials, construction, concept, function and utility. Product appearance and aesthetic appeal is also considered. Both the 1950s and the Awards of the new millennium encourage manufacturers and designers to improve their design standards and quality. The Museum allows and encourages winning designers and manufacturers to use the GOOD DESIGN logo through a special license, the design by the late Chicago industrial designer, Mort Goldsholl in 1950, on product packaging, marketing, and promotions—just as it was used in during the 1950s.

GOOD DESIGN is organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design—one of the Chicago area´s most prestigious cultural institutions and the only museum of architecture and design in the United States in conjunction with Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd.


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