KYOTO

GLOBAL DESIGN AWARDS

 

Submissions for
the 2025 KGDA are Now Open

Kyoto Global Design Awards honors extraordinary designers from around the world. Our Jury members are diverse, independent and are responsible for selecting award-winning design projects, thus proving the quality and value of your work.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the participants who contributed to the success of the 2024 Kyoto Global Design Awards. We are thrilled to congratulate the exceptional winners from across the globe.

 

Kyoto Global Design Awards

RECENT OUTSTANDING DESIGNS

Previous winners of the Kyoto Global Design Awards. We promise to continue celebrating, encouraging, and inspiring the next generation of designers!

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TO SUPPORTING PIONEERS

The Kyoto Global Design Awards was established to recognize outstanding designers from around the world who have influenced the design trends of the year.


Our mission is to discover, support and reward outstanding designers from around the world, regardless of origin, fame or reputation. In addition, we aim to promote culture, design and aesthetics around the world so as to contribute to a better society.

 

GLOBAL IMPACT

As of 2023, hundreds of outstanding designers worldwide have benefited from recognition given by the Kyoto Global Design Awards.


We hope that our support will have a positive catalytic effect, allowing winners to influence the design community and even society as a whole. At the same time, we can improve the public's aesthetic sense and ability to recognize good designs. Through the Kyoto Global Design Awards, hundreds of designers have been recognized by companies which led to further opportunities for collaboration.

KYOTO GLOBAL DESIGN AWARDS CATEGORIES

Best Design of the Year in Various Fields

BEST 100 | Environment | Industrial | Visual | Trend | Theory | Real Estate | Restaurant/Hotel/Bar