The Danish Design Award is an annual international design prize awarded by the member organization Design denmark and

Danish Design Center The Danish Design Center (DDC) is Denmark’s national center for design. Established in 1978, DDC is a non-profit foundation under the Danish Ministry of Business, Industry and Financial Affairs. The role of DDC is to promote the use of design in ...

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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. In 1965, the first Danish design award, the ID Prize, was launched. This was followed by the IG Prize in 1980, which merged, into the Danish Design Award in 2000. Now, the Danish Design Award is presented in a new version as a joint creation from the Danish Design Centre and the alliance of design professionals, Design denmark.

History

;1965 - Industrial Design Prize Acknowledging the best in

Danish design Danish design is 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 a ...

with an annual award began in 1965. At that time, the award was called the . 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 , for 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. 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 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

Source: * Pelikan Design (2008/09) *

Timothy Jacob Jensen Timothy Jacob Jensen (born 27 April 1962) is a Danish industrial designer. He was best known as CEO and Chief Designer of Jacob Jensen Design (Scandinavia’s oldest design studio) from 1990 to 2018. Jensen was also the founder of the Scandinavi ...

, Jacob Jensen Design * Hansens Flødeis (2008/09) * BC Lift (2008/09) * Thomas Pedersen, Fredericia Furniture * GN ReSound (2008/09) *

Foss Fos or FOSS may refer to: Companies * Foss A/S, a Danish analytical instrument company *Foss Brewery, a former brewery in Oslo, Norway * Foss Maritime, a tugboat and shipping company Historic houses *Foss House (New Brighton, Minnesota), United ...

* Hatch & Bloom * Kursiv *

Cecilie Manz Cecilie Manz (born 1972) is a Danish industrial designer. In November 2017, Manz was awarded designer of the year in the Design Awards by Bo bedre, Costume Living, Nordic Living and Boligmagasiet. In September 2014, she won the Danish Crown Prin ...

* Kontrapunkt AS strategic design and brand agency. * Christian Flindt,

Paustian Paustian is a German language surname. It stems from the male given name Sebastian. Notable people with the surname include: * Ole Paustian (born 1937), Danish rower * Peter Paustian, German rower *Ross Paustian Ross Paustian (born March 3, 195 ...

* Scandinavian DesignLab *

Mogens Holm-Rasmussen Mogens is a Danish masculine given name (specifically Danish shake-up of Magnus), and may refer to: * Mogens Ballin, Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven *Mogens Berg (born 1944), Danish former ...

* Hald Engel (2008/09) *

e-Types e-Types is a brand agency based in Copenhagen. It employs 50 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. History ...

* CPH Design * Torpe&Kolsch (2007) * 3Part * Grundfos * AIAIAI (2010/11)

References

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