Kokuyo Design Award 2025

Kokuyo Design Award 2025 now is over!

Kokuyo Design Award 2025: Kokuyo Design Award 2025, international product design competition organised by KOKUYO aiming to gather and commercialize designs from a wide range of users in the general public that are excellent from the perspective of those using them.

➜ Short description

The Kokuyo Design Award Kokuyo 2025 now is opened for entries accepting registration and submissions internationally!

The Kokuyo Design Award, organised by KOKUYO Group is an international product design competition that’s all about imagining and creating the future together. It gathers proposals from all around the world, and turns outstanding entries into commercial products.

The theme for 2025, “prototype.” invites participants to explore original ideas that have the potential to lead to significant advancements in product design.

Participants are encouraged to think beyond traditional boundaries and conceptualize products that could shape the future of work, learning, and living environments. The competition emphasizes the importance of prototypes not merely as unfinished products but as foundational ideas that can inspire and catalyze future developments.

Any stationery, furniture or tool used in working, learning and living scenes is eligible for entry. Submissions must be the original work of the entrant and must have not been made public (in Japan or overseas) before or concurrent to this contest. Multiple submissions are allowed.

Submissions will be evaluated based on these evaluation points:

➜ The idea’s clarity
➜ The idea highlights social issues
➜ The design’s potential to become a product

➜ Who may enter?

This competition is open worldwide to any corporations, organizations, individuals and group (up to two individuals for group entries).

➜ Prize:

The best entry will be awarded with a Grand Prix of 2,000,000 Japanese Yen. Three Merit awards of 500,000 Japanese Yen. The NEW GENERATION AWARD, aimed at student entries from elementary to graduate school, offers up to ten prizes of ¥30,000 (approximately $200) each.