{"id":122256,"date":"2025-05-15T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zagrebdesignweek.com\/prijave\/?page_id=122256"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:53:55","slug":"zgdw-award-2026-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zagrebdesignweek.com\/prijave\/?page_id=122256","title":{"rendered":"ZGDW AWARD 2026 (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ZGDW AWARD is an international design prize presented annually by Zagreb Design Week. An international jury of five design experts selects the three best projects in each of six categories.<\/p>

The finalists will be showcased in an exhibition at the festival’s central venue, with the winners announced at the prize-giving ceremony on 15 September.<\/p>

Students and professionals, studios and independent designers \u2014 all compete on equal terms. Because there is only good design and bad design, regardless of who made it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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1. Graphic Design<\/strong>
Visual communication in the broadest sense, except digital communication design and interaction design for which there is category #2. Graphic Design category includes visual identity, posters, promotional and advertising projects, illustration, typography, books, newspapers, magazines, leaflets… and packaging based on graphic design (packaging design based on product design apply to category #3).<\/p>

2. Digital Communication Design and Interaction Design<\/strong>
This category is for digital design in general. Digital communications include a design for websites, applications, games, computer animation, etc.
Interaction design is the design of digital products and services whose main feature is HMI and UX \/ UI, i.e.: mobile apps, simple and sophisticated online services, electronic gadgets, VR\/AR, etc.<\/p>

3. Product Design<\/strong>
Product design in total, from prototypes to limited series to industrial design. This category includes furniture, lighting, home appliances, transportation design, stationery, toys, etc.<\/p>

4. Interior Design<\/strong>
This category covers interior and spatial design \u2014 from living, commercial, and public spaces, through spatial interventions and systems, to exhibition and fairs design.<\/p>

5. Textile and Fashion Design<\/strong>
The category includes textile design, clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery, fashion accessories, etc. You can submit single pieces or collection, no matter if they are made as a one-off or on an industrial scale.<\/p>

6. Social Innovation Design<\/strong>
This category includes various scenarios and concepts that use design as an innovation tool, and that makes a step toward broader social context using critical thinking on existing practices and solutions. From speculative to applied design, from raising the questions to revealing themes, from ideas to solutions for the future or alternative present.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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To apply, please prepare a short text about the authors and a short text about the project \u2014 each up to 1,500 characters including spaces \u2014 along with up to five images, each no larger than 5 MB. For student work, please include the name of the institution and the supervising tutor.<\/p>

Selected exhibitors will be presented during the second week of ZGDW, from 15 to 20 September, at the festival’s central venue.<\/p>

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