MILAN — Robotics that improve bodily well-being by Japanese designer Masami Takahashi and tires made with recycled and bio-based supplies by Italy’s Pirelli, had been among the many surprising creations that topped the Compasso d’Oro 2025 awards on Friday.
The occasion came about on the Italy Pavilion of Expo 2025 Osaka; nevertheless, the official awards ceremony and exhibition will then be hosted in Milan at its typical location, the ADI Design Museum on Dec. 9. Compasso d’Oro is without doubt one of the world’s most prestigious design awards and was based by legendary maestro Gio Ponti in 1954. It’s also known as the “Oscars” of the design world.
The 2025 version of the Compasso d’Oro Worldwide Award was held below the patronage of the Italian Ministry of International Affairs and Worldwide Cooperation. Selling well-being and well being and a dedication to sustainability had been paramount in evaluating every challenge, ADI stated in a press release.
Martinelli Luce’s Avro lamp, designed for hybrid areas.
Benvenuto Saba
The roster of lifetime achievement awards this yr pinpointed the figures world wide pushing the envelope on the design trade as we all know it. Awardees spanned from Italy’s Martinelli Luce designers Studio Pure, for the Avro lamp, designed for hybrid areas; Caimi Lab for designing a cloth appropriate for furnishings and sound-absorbing parts, and China’s Yuue Design Studio, which designed an “empathetic” furnishings piece styled with a zoomorphic house, meant to foster a way of emotional closeness with customers.
“The phrase design lends itself to a number of interpretations.…From this angle, the central theme of Expo 2025 Osaka is especially related to the thought of design as a self-discipline that permeates our lives,” stated ADI president Luciano Galimberti.
Designer Philippe Starck and textiles maker Bonotto and its proprietor Giovanni Bonnotto had been additionally awarded on the ceremony that unfurled on the Osaka Expo Italian pavilion. Starck, they stated, was honored for reimagining the archetype of the armchair along with his HHH Her Highest Highness chair he designed for Kartell, which utilized industrial printing of recycled plastic. Bonotto was honored for making use of round economic system practices like progressive water saving strategies in its textile manufacturing whereas sustaining luxurious high quality.
Giovanni Bonotto in Osaka.
Courtesy of ADI
The successful tasks might be on show on the Italy Pavilion till the closing of Expo 2025 on Oct. 13.
Masami Takahashi (proper) receives her award.
