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Red Dot Design Award recognises international designers and agencies at the Red Dot Gala
On 3 November 2023, this year’s winners of the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design were celebrated. Guests from around 30 nations accepted the invitation to the festive Red Dot Gala. Special moments included the announcement of the Red Dot: Grand Prix winners and the revelation of the Agency of the Year. The awarding of the Red Dot: Junior Prize also remained a surprise to the very end.
Red Dot Gala at the Berlin Konzerthaus
“This evening, we have witnessed innovative brand and communication design. It’s fantastic to pay tribute to the achievements of the best agencies, designers and companies in our most recent competition, while in the company of our international guests. Personally, presenting the trophies to the winners on stage and celebrating this together brings me great joy,” reflected Professor Dr. Peter Zec, CEO and founder of Red Dot. He served as the evening’s host, along with the Red Dot jurors Kelley Cheng, Thilo von Debschitz and Alison Park Douglas, handing out the Red Dot trophies to the recipients of the highest awards.
Winners of the Red Dot: Grand Prix
The highest individual award of the competition was bestowed six times this year. Which projects were awarded the Red Dot: Grand Prix emained a secret until the evening of 3 November. Here are the winners:
Brand Identity Redesign “Forskningsrådet”
Client: Forskningsrådet, Oslo, Norway
Design: ANTI, Oslo, Norway
Brand Identity Redesign “U.S. Army”
Client: Army Marketing Enterprise Organization, Chicago, USA
Design: Team DDB comprised of Siegel+Gale and DDB Chicago, New York, USA
Book “Coverings”
Client: Atelier Walter Oczlon, St. Johann, Salzburg, Austria
Design: Atelier Walter Oczlon, St. Johann, Salzburg, Austria
Public Installation “Novartis Pavillon – Zero-Energy Media Façade”
Client: Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Design: iart – studio for media architectures, Münchenstein, Switzerland, and AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi, Milan, Italy
Exhibition and Event Design “A Statement of Form”
Client: Gaggenau Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich, Germany
Design: 1zu33 GmbH, Munich, Germany
User Interface for the Visually Impaired “Dot Pad – The first smart tactile graphics display”
Client: Dot Incorporation, Seoul, South Korea
Design: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY, Munich, Germany
Red Dot: Junior Prize for Marie-Luise Charlotte Weier
With its esteemed reputation and prize money of 10,000 euros, the Red Dot: Junior Prize is one of the most coveted awards in the world of design. This year, the German student Marie-Luise Charlotte Weier had the pleasure of receiving this exceptional honour.
Her project “PYRY” left a profound impression on the Red Dot jury. “We couldn’t believe our eyes when we first saw it,” described the juror Thilo von Debschitz, conveying the initial impact the project had on him and his fellow jurors. Marie-Luise Charlotte Weier had submitted a frozen book, a photographic journey to the Arctic Circle, to the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2023 competition.
“PYRY” captivated the jury in multiple ways: its aesthetically pleasing photographs and their message couldn’t have been more intensely staged or tactilely experienced. In terms of form, the unique aesthetics of the risography technique and the technical execution of the ice-covered pages were fascinating.
The trophy that crowned this award was presented by Red Dot Vice President Jana Zec to Marie-Luise Charlotte Weier.
CLEVER°FRANKE is the Red Dot: Agency of the Year 2023
The exhilarating highlight of the award ceremony was the presentation of the “Stylus” trophy by Daniel Leyser, Global CEO of MetaDesign and the previous year’s titleholder, to Thomas Clever and Gert Franke. The founders of the CLEVER°FRANKE agency celebrated their success with around 40 employees on the Konzerthaus stage.
“CLEVER°FRANKE was considered a pioneer in data visualisation when founded in 2008 and has since become an internationally sought-after specialist in translating complex data sets,” said Peter Zec, pleased with the choice. Thus, the Red Dot: Agency of the Year award also brings a design field into focus that has had a significant impact economically, while strongly influencing society as well. “There is now no doubt that information is the ‘raw material’ of our time. However, this raw material requires design so that we can harness it for the benefit of society,” Peter Zec affirmed.
Publication of all winners online
All the winners of the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2023 have been viewable online in the “Winners” section on www.red-dot.org since 3 November. Additionally, the creators of the winning projects, that is, the best designers and agencies of the year, are featured in individual profiles at https://www.red-dot.org/magazine/winners-profiles-bcd-2023.
