Dutch Design Awards (DDA) honours the best Dutch designs across eight categories. It awards
design
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initiatives and
designer
A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans.
In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...
s in the Netherlands each year, in first place by relevance and impact, but also to the extent to which they relate to their own field.
The awards are handed out during the annual
Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week (also known as DDW) is the largest annual design event in Northern Europe. It presents work and concepts from more than 2,600 designers to more than 355,000 visitors from home and abroad. Hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the ev ...
in the Dutch city of
Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Dutch Design Foundation and the city of Eindhoven.
Overview
Dutch Design Awards have been handed out since 2003. In 2008, the name was changed from the
Dutch-language
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''Nederlandse Design Prijzen'' to the current name.
Twenty prizes are handed out during an annual awards show. In addition to the main prize, the Golden Eye, which honours the most successful Dutch designer or design studio, awards are handed out in a number of categories. Each category has its own selection committee, and the winners are selected by an international jury. One exception is the public award, the Audi Design Award; the winner of this prize is chosen from a shortlist by means of a public election held on the Web site of the Dutch Design Awards and in the
Bijenkorf
De Bijenkorf (; literally, "the beehive") is a chain of high-end department stores in the Netherlands, with its flagship store on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The chain is owned by Selfridges Group, which also owns Britain's Selfridges and Ireland's ...
department store in Eindhoven.
In 2009, the awards were presented on October 17 at Muziekcentrum Frits Philips in Eindhoven. The main prize, the Golden Eye, went to Studio Wieki Somers ( Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg) for their ''Merry-go-round Coat Rack'', a
carousel
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-like construction to hang coats, designed for the
cloakroom
A cloakroom, or sometimes coatroom, is a room for people to hang their coats, cloaks or other outerwear when they enter a building. Cloakrooms are typically found inside large buildings, such as gymnasiums, schools, churches or meeting halls.
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of
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...
. During the awards ceremony, the first edition of the Dutch Design Jaarboek was presented to Eindhoven mayor
Rob van Gijzel
Rob van Gijzel (born 29 June 1954 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch politician. He is a former MP and was mayor of Eindhoven between 8 April 2008 and 13 September 2016.
When Van Gijzel was a student, he became an active member of the Jonge Socialisten. ...
. The nominated designs were exhibited from October 17 to 25 at the Brainport Greenhouse, a large glass greenhouse on Stadhuisplein square in Eindhoven.
Categories
* Data & Interaction
*Communication
* Design Research
*Fashion
*Habitat
*Product
*Best Commissioning
*Young Designer
*Other awards:
** Public Award
** BNO Piet Zwart Prijs
See also
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Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week (also known as DDW) is the largest annual design event in Northern Europe. It presents work and concepts from more than 2,600 designers to more than 355,000 visitors from home and abroad. Hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the ev ...
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Dutch Design
Dutch Design is a term used to denote an informal artistic school of design in the Netherlands, particularly product design. More specifically, the term refers to the design esthetic common to designers in the Netherlands.
History
The Netherl ...
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Dutch Furniture Awards
The Dutch Furniture Awards is a former annual furniture design competition in the Netherlands, organized from 1985 to 1998.
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Rotterdam Design Award
The Rotterdam Design Award (Rotterdamse Designprijs) was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the Kunsthal, and afterwards in Museum Bo ...