iF Product Design Award

The award, which spans multiple disciplines, has more than 5,500 entries from around 59 nations every year.

[3] launched in 1953 with a "Special Show for Well-Designed Industrial Goods" as part of the Hanover Fair industrial trade exhibition, originally to highlight German Design.

They now strive to serve as a mediating arm between design and industry internationally, believing that this capacity allows them to make contributions to design services and to increase public awareness on the importance of design.

Today the contest attracts entries from more than 50 countries, in 6 disciplines spanning 70 categories.

[4] (VDID), and International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) are just a few of the international community that enter the iF Product Design competition.