Real Danish Design Awards

Real Danish Design Awards is an annual design award and exhibition, intended for practitioners in the broader field of design, to exhibit and showcase their work to the general public. We welcome designers from all different fields. The exhibition's goal is not only to examine the contemporary and future states of design but also to support a scene for smaller and/or newly established designers and studios. Real Danish Design Awards, will be a platform that creates culture and debate about form, function, effects, affects and aesthetics. Design is a complex term and is today an essential part of contemporary culture. Today's design is represented by different subject areas and specialists working with design. The notion of design is used more and more like its original meaning of the Latin word "designare", to make a plan or ‘to sketch’, we see terms like design thinking, design services, design strategy & social design. Real Danish Design Awards does not believe that a new understanding of the notion of design will eliminate the old, but rather add meaning to the term. This is why the notion of design becomes even more complex. Real Danish Design Awards have seen the opportunity to supplement the design award scene by focusing more on the craftsmanship and the thorough work each designer does. Aesthetics and craftsmanship form the foundation of Real Danish Design Awards, without denying the importance of good sustainable and social initiatives. At Real Danish Design Awards, we believe in surfaces as much as the cores, we believe in the affect as much as the effect. We believe in design with artistic aspirations. And we believe in form-experiments as much as we believe in research projects and critical design. But most of all we believe that designers create a design and not the companies they work for. At Real Danish Design Awards, we create an exhibition platform where design is embodied, criticized and discussed.