“We believe that design has a fundamental role in society: asking important questions about the present, designing solutions and building a better future through the ability to imagine scenarios which are different from those already dictated by conventional wisdom. This is an important responsibility which happily, design shows no sign of shirking,” concluded the jury’s report for the XXVIII edition – the seventieth – of the Compasso d’Oro ADI 2024. The jury was composed of Maria Cristina Didero, Luciano Galimberti, Francisco Gómez Paz, Renata Cristina Mazzantini, and Toshiyuki Kita.
Winners of XXVIII Compasso d’Oro ADI 2024 announced
The award has traced the history of Italian design as a world reference point, focusing on sustainability, innovation, and emotions.
Company: Zanotta; Design: Zaven; Product type: Furniture and accessories for the home
Company: Santa Monica; Design: Aldo Drudi; Product type: Brand identity and communication systems
Company: Tesar Automation; Design: Ilario De Vincenzo; Product type: Industrial machines and components
Company: Tesar Automation; Design: Ilario De Vincenzo; Product type: Industrial machines and components
Company: Fondazione Luigi Rovati; Design: Mario Cucinella Architects; Product type: Museums
Company: Ferrari; Design: Flavio Manzoni, Ferrari Design; Product type: Cars
Company: Sozzi Arredamenti; Design: Álvaro Siza; Product type: Furniture and accessories for the home
Company: Optimares; Design: Goood; Product type: Seating system for airplanes
Company: Davide Groppi; Design: Davide Groppi, Giorgio Rava; Product type: Lighting fixture
Company: Sanlorenzo; Design: Zuccon International Project (exterior design), Lissoni & Partners (interior design), Tilli Antonelli (supervisor); Product type: Boats
Company: Talenti; Design: Marco Acerbis; Product type: Furniture and accessories for the home
Company: Elica; Design: Fabrizio Crisà; Product type: Kitchen furniture and accessories
Company: Diadora Utility; Design: Cristian Ardissono; Product type: Products for work
Company: Viabizzuno; Design: Paolo Rizzatto, marionanni; Product type: Lighting fixture
Company: REA; Design: Flavio Augusto Gentile; Product type: Products for work
Company: Magis; Design: Stefan Diez; Product type: Furniture and accessories for the home
Company: Focchi; Design: Progetto CMR; Product type: Cladding
Company: Lym; Design: Studio Marco Zito; Product type: Lighting fixture
Company: Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola; Design: Daniele Martelli; Product type: Cladding
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- Lucia Brandoli
- 20 June 2024
This year again, in addition to the 20 award-winning products and 39 mentions, Compasso d'Oro Awards for Lifetime Achievement have been given to important personalities in the field of design, as well as 3 awards for “long sellers”, products that have been on the market for several decades. In this section, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Compasso, the figure of Gio Ponti, creator of the award and founder of Domus, was celebrated by awarding the 1953 D.154.2 armchair (now Molteni&C), the 1957 Superleggera chair for Cassina and the tiles now known as the Collezione Blu Ponti, which we know from his Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento. The Lifetime Achievement Awards were enriched by the International Award, where, alongside Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo, another name associated with Domus was honoured: Tadao Ando, our 2021 guest editor. For the Targa Giovani, reserved for projects by students from Italian design universities, 3 prizes and 9 certificates were awarded. ADI and the ADI Foundation also chose to commemorate some recently deceased figures who made significant contributions to the culture of design with a special plaque: Manlio Armellini, who passed away in 2020 and was one of the creators of the Salone del Mobile; and designers Gaetano Pesce and Italo Rota, both of whom died in April this year.
As emphasized by the jury, the common feature among the 311 submitted projects was the desire to seek innovations, applying advanced technologies capable of breaking even well-established typologies. Two other fundamental elements identified were sustainability and attention to workplace safety, which is achieving concrete awareness and maturity towards the many problems that still generate a sad record of fatal accidents. Once again, design presents itself as a transversal discipline, capable of converging knowledge and disciplines that are often very distant, without neglecting an important emotional component. The exhibition, consisting of all the awarded projects, along with other participants in the selection, can be visited until September 16, 2024.
All pictures: Courtesy Compasso d’Oro ADI
The quest for manufacturing simplicity, combined with a new idea of comfort of use reinforces the idea of sustainability and responsibility over time for an ever increasing general public.
Communication design as expressed in the context of land art underlines a different relationship in the enjoyment of sporting events that see the involvement of a large audience through new forms of media.
A reduction in human fatigue combined with safety in the workplace through a new self-driving electric vehicle with reduced dimensions, intended to improve the efficiency of spaces and procedures in the logistics sector.
The union between advanced mechanical technologies and artificial intelligence applied to the medical sector to overcome the concept of "able-bodied". Design as a bridging discipline between knowledge from vastly different areas, as seen from the perspective of civic responsibility.
Museographic and museological staging and set-up through a type of design that takes its inspiration from the relationship with the traditions of the world of sculpture, creating an emotionally engaging environment and underlining the relationship between user and cultural heritage.
A concentrated dose of technology combined with courageous typological innovation which goes beyond the conventional categories of the gran turismo: this is a clear element of tangible innovation in a sector that is well-established in the face of global competition.
The tradition of quality joinery applied to the oldest type of product in the history of furniture comes face to face with the application of restraint in terms of materials and components, resulting in a synthesis of elegant lightness.
A typological innovation that guarantees better use of space inside an aircraft offering the same level of comfort but with a significant weight saving aimed at reducing consumption.
The reduction of thicknesses and material used is combined with an idea of expressiveness capable of satisfying genuine requests for coming into contact with the transcendental nature of a public that is increasingly bombarded by trivializing messages.