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On 20th June 2022, the Milan Square saw an illustrious crowd of significant innovators and pioneers of design as the ADI Design Museum presented the Compasso d’Oro award to 20 innovative and future-centric products. Encompassing a very wide banner of furniture, technological and utilitarian products, the award ceremony showcased the best in design in a design studded affair. The prestigious awards have been the guiding light to many different designers and producers that are relentlessly working towards creating products comprehensible and sustainable enhanced with the latest technology and innovation in the world of design.
“Design, and Italian design in particular, impacts on the solid reality of everyday life, a reality that cannot be limited to declarations of intent or reports,” says Luciano Galimberti, president of the ADI Design Museum.
The Compasso d’Oro awards originated in Italy in 1954 with the extraordinary ideologies of the famous Italian Architect, Gio Ponti. It has been one of the most important honours that can be bestowed upon the world of industrial design and talented designers. For their 28th edition, the awards were presented to nine Italian and three international designers who have been important stakeholders in the ever-evolving world of design. The award ceremony hosted by the museum, witnessed the presence of distinguished names including the likes of Giancarlo Giorgetti, the Italian Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Bruno Galli, Councillor for Autonomy and Culture, and Guido Guidesi, Councillor for Economic Development, Lombardy Region among others. Commissioned in a joint venture by the ADI Design Museum and the ADI Foundation, three more awards were presented for long-selling products considered to be design successes appertaining their market sales over a 10-year period. 25 honourable mentions were also presented to designers who held conscious creation and sustainability at the hearts of their individual creations. Some of the winning entries include the Ghost armchair by Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi for Fiam Italia (1987), the Minikitchen by Joe Colombo for Boffi (1968) and the Up series of sofas and armchairs by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia.
“Close attention has resulted in sensitivity to environmental and social issues becoming an almost constant component of each candidate product,” explains Umberto Cabini, president of the ADI Foundation, which is in charge of the Award's Historic Collection, currently housed in the ADI Design Museum. Pre-determined by ADI Design Index 2020 and 2021, 292 unique products were presented before a jury chaired by Annachiara Sacchi alongside Mario Cucinella, Stefano Micelli, Cloe Piccoli and Mirko Zardini. The selection process by the jury involved monitoring the uniqueness of the design and its keen contextual adherence to sustainability, development and responsibility. The jury wanted to emphasise on the plurality of ways in which design can possibly resolve the fundamental problems of the present while understanding the impact the production creates on the future. For the Compasso d’Oro career awards for Italy, the winners included Giovanni Anceschi, Francesco Binfaré, Giulio Cappellini, Antonio Citterio, Brunello Cucinelli, Michele De Lucchi, Rossana Orlandi, Rosy Vago and Giancarlo Zanatta.
The exhibition, held at the ADI Design Museum will host 221 of the entries from this edition of the awards and will be on display till 11th September 2022. The exhibition project is by Perla Gianni Falvo, Carlo Malerba, Marco Predari. The graphic design of the catalogue is by Wladimiro Bendandi / D+ studio.
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