Danish Design Award
Encyclopedia
The Danish Design Award is an annual international design prize awarded by the Danish Design Centre
in Copenhagen
, Denmark
. The aim of the award is to acknowledge innovative products and outstanding graphic design solutions characterised by a high aesthetic and technical quality that helps stimulating the use of design in businesses. Award-winners are featured in an exhibition open to the public at the Danish Design Centre
.
Prize
Acknowledging the best in Danish design
with an annual award began in 1965. At that time the award was called the ID Prize. Danish design
had become an important concept, not just in Scandinavia but worldwide. Danish design
represented - and continues to represent - simple, pure and aesthetic design with a clear user focus.
1980 – Industrial Graphic Design Prize
In 1980 the ID Prize had a sister award, the IG Prize, which celebrated the best industrial graphic design.
2000 – The Danish Design Prize
In 2000, the ID Prize and the IG Prize merged to become the Danish Design Prize that we know today. With the brief pause in 2005 and 2006, the Danish Design Prize 2007 marked an anniversary for Danish design: the design prizes were awarded for the fortieth time.
2007 – The Designmatters Award
The latest addition to the design prize family and a new introduction in 2007 was the Designmatters Award. This award goes to a small or medium-sized company that has made a serious effort to incorporate design and achieved a positive effect on the bottom line. The first recipient of the Designmatters Award was the lighting company Lightyears.
Danish Design Centre
Danish Design Centre is a museum in Copenhagen. It is housed in a new building designed by Henning Larsen in the very centre of the city....
in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. The aim of the award is to acknowledge innovative products and outstanding graphic design solutions characterised by a high aesthetic and technical quality that helps stimulating the use of design in businesses. Award-winners are featured in an exhibition open to the public at the Danish Design Centre
Danish Design Centre
Danish Design Centre is a museum in Copenhagen. It is housed in a new building designed by Henning Larsen in the very centre of the city....
.
History
1965 - Industrial DesignIndustrial design
Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...
Prize
Acknowledging the best in Danish design
Danish design
Danish Design is a term often used to describe a style of functionalistic design and architecture that was developed in mid-20th century. Influenced by the German Bauhaus school, many Danish designers used the new industrial technologies, combined with ideas of simplicity and functionalism to...
with an annual award began in 1965. At that time the award was called the ID Prize. Danish design
Danish design
Danish Design is a term often used to describe a style of functionalistic design and architecture that was developed in mid-20th century. Influenced by the German Bauhaus school, many Danish designers used the new industrial technologies, combined with ideas of simplicity and functionalism to...
had become an important concept, not just in Scandinavia but worldwide. Danish design
Danish design
Danish Design is a term often used to describe a style of functionalistic design and architecture that was developed in mid-20th century. Influenced by the German Bauhaus school, many Danish designers used the new industrial technologies, combined with ideas of simplicity and functionalism to...
represented - and continues to represent - simple, pure and aesthetic design with a clear user focus.
1980 – Industrial Graphic Design Prize
In 1980 the ID Prize had a sister award, the IG Prize, which celebrated the best industrial graphic design.
2000 – The Danish Design Prize
In 2000, the ID Prize and the IG Prize merged to become the Danish Design Prize that we know today. With the brief pause in 2005 and 2006, the Danish Design Prize 2007 marked an anniversary for Danish design: the design prizes were awarded for the fortieth time.
2007 – The Designmatters Award
The latest addition to the design prize family and a new introduction in 2007 was the Designmatters Award. This award goes to a small or medium-sized company that has made a serious effort to incorporate design and achieved a positive effect on the bottom line. The first recipient of the Designmatters Award was the lighting company Lightyears.
Award Winners
- Pelikan Design
- Hansens Flødeis
- BC Lift
- Thomas Pedersen, Fredericia Furniture
- GN Resound
- Foss
- Hatch & Bloom
- Kursiv
- Cecilie ManzCecilie ManzCecilie Manz is a Danish industrial designer. She is considered one of the leading Danish furniture deisgners of her generation.Her work of includes furniture, jewellery, lamps and sculptures. Her Mikado table has been included in MOMA's design collection.-Biography:Cecilie Manz was born Denmark's...
- Kontrapunkt
- Christian Flindt, Paustian
- Scandinavian DesignLab
- Hald Engel
- e-TypesE-Typese-Types is a strategic design agency based in Copenhagen. It employs 30 designers, strategists and account managers. Since 2006 e-Types has been subject to academic research by scholars from Copenhagen Business School and Harvard Business School....
- CPH Design
- Torpe&Kolsch
- 3Part
- Grundfos