Every year Midea wins numerous brand and product design awards. There are more award programs now than ever before and some are easier to win than others. Established programs such as iF, Red Dot ,Good Design and IDEA have a 50-60 year history and are still held in the highest regard. Therefore we chose to only integrate the 2017 awards of these four most established award organizations.

For information about other awards, PIN-UP and other local awards please contact the product division or subsidiary for more information.

For award information of earlier years visit the design award websites.

Reddot, Good Design, iF DESIGN AWARD, IDEA

Award are important assets that stimulates consumer trust in brand, it boosts client confidence and drives internal business results. They are a recognition of the time and passion that has been invested in a project. Therefore use these awards as much as possible in external communications.

Red Dot award

The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. This Design centre was founded in 1954 and is one of the best-respected design competitions in the world. The sought-after award, the “Red Dot”, is the revered international seal of outstanding design quality. The organization runs two design museums, one in Germany and one in Singapore.

IF design award

The IF design award has been active in the design community, issuing awards that are recognized and respected all over the world since 1953. The iF logo has become an internationally acknowledged symbol of outstanding design, and serves as a beacon for design-interested audiences in the global economies.

GOOD DESIGN award

Founded by Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1957. Engaged in picking good design that aims to enrich our lives, industries, and society as a whole.

The Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)

Winning the IDEA is a distinction like no other that brands companies’ design as the very best in the business, among their peers, clients and consumers all over the world.

Reddot Terms and Conditions

General information on use

The label that you are allowed to use depends on the distinction you have won – Red Dot: Best of the Best, Red Dot or Honourable Mention. The winner label can only be used in the manner shown in the label files provided. The appearance of the label cannot be changed. The year mentioned on the label has to be the year in which the award was won.

Licence

The right to use the label for the award­ winning product is unlimited in terms of time and place, provided that it always relates to the product that was presented to the jury for assessment as part of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 20xx.
It is still permissible to use the winner label, if the color is changed. However, the label cannot be used for a further development of the product in terms of design, functionality, etc. The global use of the Red Dot winner label applies to the following means of communication and campaigns, which are included in the Winner Package.

iF Design Award Terms and Conditions

All iF winners have the right to use the winner’s logo for their iF awarded entries without time limit.

Only use the official iF DESIGN AWARD logo that bears the year in which you have won the award: The iF DESIGN AWARD logo in red or black.

Do not use the iF company logo, neither the square nor the one with the word mark ‘International Forum Design’.

Do not use logos without year indication.

In addition, you can also link to your company profile on our website, you can print the logo on your packaging design and use it on your exhibition stand when your are at a fair.

License

As an award winner, you are entitled to use the iF DESIGN AWARD logo together with your award-winning entry and to use the iF ranking logo in all your advertising and communications. You can use both logos for an unlimited period of time.

Included in fees for award winners. The license is valid for the entire product lifecycle without any additional annual or other consequential charges.

The license is granted automatically when winning an iF DESIGN AWARD.

GOOD DESIGN Terms and Conditions

Winners can use the G Mark logo for any media for a period of one year after an application is submitted and the annual usage fee is paid. Please note that there are certain rules that apply to the usage of G Mark logo.

You could check the below link to confirm the usage fee and other info about the usage,

 http://www.g-mark.org/promotions/prom5.html?locale=en

logo

The G-mark logo and the guidelines for logo-usage provided by GOOD DESIGN awards are to be found in the brand book. For all logo’s visit:

http://download.g-mark.org/en/gda/2017/

IDEA Terms and Conditions

You can use the IDEA logo for both your print and online communications by, for example, integrating it in advertisements and brochures, in online banners and in press releases.

There are no restrictions to the logo's use as long as you do not distort it in any way.

2018

2017