# Every Good Design Grand Award winner in Japan (2000–2025)

From Issey Miyake's A-POC, the Prius and Dyson's bladeless fan to a temple charity, a café staffed by avatar robots and Shigeru Ban's timber temporary housing: the winners of the Good Design Grand Award, the top prize of Japan's Good Design Award (a Prime Minister's award since 2007), since 2000. There was no winner in 2013.

- 34 votes · 26 items
- Feb 23, 2026 · 坂本 蓮
- https://even.best/en/l/5320/every-good-design-grand-award-winner-in-japan-2000-2025

## Top 26

1. **Sendai Mediatheque (2001)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2001. Winner: Toyo Ito & Associates and Sendai City.
2. **A-POC (clothing made from a single piece of cloth) (2000)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2000. Winner: Miyake Design Studio.
3. **Moerenuma Park (2002)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2002. Winner: Sapporo City.
4. **Toyota Prius (2003)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Good Design Grand Award 2003. Winner: Toyota.
5. **TV programme "Doremino Terebi" (2004)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2004. Winner: NHK.
6. **eneloop universe products rechargeable batteries (2007)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2007. Winner: Sanyo Electric.
7. **Air Multiplier (bladeless fan) (2010)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2010. Winner: Dyson.
8. **Internavi "passable roads map" after the 2011 earthquake (2011)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2011. Winner: Honda.
9. **TV programme "Nihongo de Asobo" (2004)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2004. Winner: NHK.
10. **Toyota iQ (2008)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2008. Winner: Toyota.
11. **TV programme "Design Ah!" (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2012. Winner: NHK.
12. **VS050 SII robot for medical and pharmaceutical use (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2014. Winner: Denso and Denso Wave.
13. **Venova casual wind instrument (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2017. Winner: Yamaha.
14. **WOTA BOX water recycling system (2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2020. Winner: WOTA.
15. **"52-ken no Engawa" day-care centre for the elderly (2023)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2023. Winner: All for One and Kentaro Yamazaki Design Workshop.
16. **Nanopass 33 insulin needle (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2005. Winner: Terumo.
17. **Mitsubishi i kei car (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2006. Winner: Mitsubishi Motors.
18. **Iwamizawa Station building (2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2009. Winner: JR Hokkaido and others.
19. **AuthaGraph world map (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2016. Winner: Narukawa Lab (Keio University) and AuthaGraph.
20. **Otera Oyatsu Club (temples sharing offerings with poor families) (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2018. Winner: Otera Oyatsu Club.
21. **Mahō no Dagashiya Chiroru-dō (sweet shop supporting local children) (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2022. Winner: Atelier e.f.t. and others.
22. **DLT timber temporary housing (2025)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Good Design Grand Award 2025. Winner: Shigeru Ban Architects and others.
23. **WHILL Model A personal mobility device (2015)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Good Design Grand Award 2015. Winner: WHILL.
24. **Rapid tuberculosis test kit (2019)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Good Design Grand Award 2019. Winner: Fujifilm.
25. **Avatar Robot Café DAWN ver.β and OriHime (2021)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Good Design Grand Award 2021. Winner: Ory Laboratory.
26. **RESILIENCE PLAYGROUND playground research project (2024)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Good Design Grand Award 2024. Winner: Jakuets.

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