IPDA '20

Search for the best product design 

Welcome to the 2^nd edition of the International Product Design Awards.

A great product is one that can change our lifestyle and make our life simpler at the same time. It takes a particular set of skills to be creative yet sensitive, adds beauty to function, bring innovation to the daily, and for that we honour the best product designs in the industry. We’re inviting designers from every corner of the world to celebrate design and recognize design vocabulary that exceeds today and leaps further.

UNI International Product Design Awards has been created to recognize and celebrate outstanding product and industrial designs that represent the highest level of creative originality and design excellence.

We recognize the best that designers can offer to the world & honour the ones that truly impact our lives for the better. We are inviting product designers and industrial designers across the globe to participate, where their entries will be judged for design innovation, technical advancements, value, environmental responsibility, aesthetics, need and usage. 

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Categories

Participants can submit products entries related to any of these everyday groups of people/sector/social settings. Once can submit in more than one category but they have to register separately. 

1. Elderly 

2. Children 

3. Interior 

4. Lighting 

5. Urban 

6. Office

7. Outdoor 

8. Transportation 

9. Digital 

10. Wellness 

11. Toys 

12. Educational

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Judging Criteria 

Innovation 

- Concepts that are brave/radical/refreshing.

 - Narration behind the design process.

 - Innovative use of technology (materials, construction) 

Fabrication 

- Materiality and its sources.

 - Sustainability in terms of usage. 

- Assembling methodologies and storage. 

Functionality

 - Handling and usability of the product.

 - Safety and product feasibility.

 - Fulfillment of the need or function. 

- Practicality in terms of size and weight. 

Potential 

- Justification is an appealing product. 

- Potential of commercialization

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UNI Design Awards

UNI Product Design Awards has been created to recognize, honour and celebrate outstanding product and industrial designs that represent the highest level of creative originality and design excellence. We are inviting product designers and industrial designers across the globe to submit their entries which will be judged for design innovation, technical advancements, cost and value, environmental responsibility, aesthetics, need and usage.

We will acknowledge those outstanding designs and will promote them at a global scale through our online platform, media partners, social channels, and also in the form of an annual book presenting the best designs across the globe. With the benchmarks set by this previous year, we expect projects to have the potential to evoke questions, ideas and debates about the present and future of the architectural community.  

UNI Design Awards seeks to find and showcase the best research, built and unbuilt projects in architecture, design and related fields. The awards strive to encompass all architecture and design disciplines under a carefully curated umbrella for students, young architects/designers and professionals.

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UNI is a global network of architects and designers who are solving some of the most challenging problems around the globe. UNI brings together the world's largest pool of design challenges that are curated by the finest architecture academicians and professionals globally. With over 200,000+ registered members, UNI brings academia and professional spheres of architecture together through a unique knowledge-sharing web platform. Since 2017, UNI has hosted more than 200+ architecture competitions for various idea level to realization level briefs. In the past, UNI has helped 50+ organizations, universities, and government bodies to use our platform to generate architecture and design solutions through competitions.

UNI aims to create a seamless information exchange within the architecture industry with this one-of-a-kind community. It foresees a future where architects and consumers are getting real-world design deployed over the internet through sophisticated software and applications from anywhere in the world.

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