Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025

“In search of good design” – the Red Dot Design Award is one of the world’s largest design competitions. The Red Dot Label has become established internationally as one of the most sought-after marks of quality for good design. In order to appraise the diversity in this field in a professional manner, the Red Dot Design Award breaks down into three disciplines. Competitions for each of these disciplines are held once every year.

Conditions for Participation

1. The competition is open to firms and independent designers and architects – but not consumers and artists – who may apply with finished products that are being manufactured in series (the “products”). To be eligible for registrati- on, admission is dependent on the products having been launched on the market at the latest by 1 June of the year of the competition and not before 1 January of the year before the previous year. The competition strictly prohibits any renderings (virtual representations or drawings). Only the actual products are judged. A Participant may register any number of products. Participation is not open to product models that have already been judged and rejected in a previous Red Dot Award: Product Design competition.
   Entries to the categories “Interior architecture and interior design” and “Urban design” must already be completed and realised by the time they are submitted. Moreover, their realisation may not date back further than 1 January of the year before the previous year to the competition.
   On Young Professionals Application Day, designers who completed their design degree no more than five years prior have the possibility to apply for the draw of one of 50 free registrations for Red Dot Award: Product Design. To be eligible for registration, admission is dependent on the products having been launched on the market at the latest by 1 June of the year of the competition and not before 1 January of the year before the previous year. A partici- pation on the basis of concept notes and drafts is not possible. The result of the draw will be communicated to the applicants by email. More information on the conditions of participation and specific arrangements can be accessed online at https://www.red-dot.org/pd.

2. The Participant is allowed to register his/her product in multiple different product categories. However, every entry into an additional category will be considered as a separate submission, meaning that it requires a separate registra- tion and a separate, in other words, additional, product delivery. Furthermore, all conditions mentioned in the Terms & Conditions apply.

3. Only registrations submitted on time and in due form will be admitted to the competition. Images, texts as well as posters submitted by the Participant will not be returned.

4. A further condition for participation in the competition is that the entry fee is paid on time. The amount of the entry fee is specified in the price list in effect at the time of registration. The price list is available online and is to be consulted before concluding the registration. Additional charges may apply if any optional extra services were booked.

5. Furthermore, the Participant commits himself/herself to provide a product description in English of at least 500 and at maximum 1,200 characters (including spaces) for each registered product as well as printable illustration material (e.g., 300 dpi for DIN A4 format) for the purpose of optimal presentation before the jury. Renderings are not permit- ted; only photographs of the original products.

6. By participating in the Red Dot Award: Product Design, the Participant agrees to the inclusion of his or her compe- tition result in the rankings created by the Organiser and to the publishing of these rankings. The rankings are based on the results presented in the Red Dot Design Yearbooks that Red Dot Award AG publishes for the competitions. The Organiser is entitled to modify, at any time and at its discretion, the registration period for the registered awards, the classification of the categories and the calculation method. The registration period, categorisation and method of calculation will be published on the Internet by the Organiser together with the announcement of the rankings.

Registration fees

The registration fees vary depending on the registration date and include the preparation of the product for adjudication, the preparation of a jury dossier and the presentation during the jury session. Further fees will be charged for outsized products. If the submission wins an award, it is obligatory to purchase the Winner Package. Among other things, it includes use of the Winner Label as well as the presentation of the product in the yearbook, in the winners’ exhibition and online.

• Early Bird - 450 euros
• Regular - 600 euros
• Latecomer - 750 euros

Additional fees

• Outsized products, starting from 3m² - 700 euros per registration excl. VAT

Costs in the event of your product winning an award

Booking the Winner Package is obligatory for all winners that receive a distinction. Among other things, it includes use of the winner label as well as presentation of the product in the yearbook, the winners exhibition and online.

Winner Package for the Red Dot: Best of the Best distinction from 6,900 euros*

The Red Dot: Best of the Best is awarded for innovative design and is the highest award in the Red Dot Award: Product Design, which is granted only to the best products in a category.

The package includes the following services:

• Use of the Red Dot Winner Label for the entire life cycle of your product as well as additional industry-specific labels
• Handing over of the Red Dot Trophy
• Two A3-format premium-quality framed copies of the Red Dot certificate
• “Premium” presentation of the product on a double-page spread in the Red Dot Design Yearbook 2024/2025
• Two-page, exclusive designer profile in the Red Dot Design Yearbook 2024/2025 with a short interview and a large-scale photo
• Publication of the award-winning product with images and text in the online exhibition at www.red-dot.org
• Presentation of the award-winning product for one year in international exhibitions, including several weeks in the special exhibition “Milestones in Contemporary Design” in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen

* The Winner Package costs vary depending on the size of your product and the exhibition space required. The exhibition team may decide to present large products as a film or a poster as appropriate.

Winner Package for the Red Dot distinction from 4,500 euros*

The Red Dot is the distinction for high design quality. The international jury awards the sought-after quality symbol only to products that are excellently designed.

The package includes the following services:

• Use of the Red Dot Winner Label for the entire life cycle of your product as well as additional industry-specific labels
• Two A4-format copies of the Red Dot certificate
• Presentation of the award-winning product on at least one-third of a page in the Red Dot Design Yearbook 2024/2025 (the basic presentation can be extended to two-thirds of a page, a whole page or a double-page spread on request)
• Publication of the award-winning product with images and text in the online exhibition at www.red-dot.org 
• Presentation of the award-winning product for one year in international exhibitions, including several weeks in the special exhibition “Design on Stage” in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen

* The Winner Package costs vary depending on the size of your product and the exhibition space required. The exhibition team may decide to present large products as a film or a poster as appropriate.