Candidates for GOOD DESIGN GRAND AWARD

Battery related product
MaBeee

Novars Inc.

Tractor
YT3 Series

Yanmar Co., Ltd.

Apartment building
Hoshinotani Danchi

ODAKYU ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO.,LTD + bluestudio Co.,Ltd.

BOOK
TOKYO BOUSAI

DENTSU INC. + NOSIGNER Co.,Ltd. + DENTSU TEC INC. + TAKI CORPORATION + BRAINSHIP.INC + TransMedia Corp. + YUTA OKAMURA

Educational robotics and programming kit KOOV (TM)

Sony Global Education, Inc. + Sony Corporation

World Map Projection
AuthaGraph World Map

Narukawa Laboratory, Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance + AuthaGraph Co., Ltd.

Good Design Grand Award, deemed the design of the year 2016, will be chosen out of the candidates announced on Oct. 28. Good Design Award jury, winners of Good Design Award 2016 and visitors to "GOOD DESIGN GRAND AWARD ELECTION 2016" Exhibition will cast vote and the winning entry will be announced on Oct. 28.

6 candidates of Good Design Grand Award from all awards of Good Design Award 2016, in particular excellent design as [GOOD DESIGN BEST 100]. Selected by Good design award president Mr. Kazushi Nagai and vice president Ms. Fumie Shibata, and screening unit leaders, Focus & Issue Directer, based on new concern between person and object, and new mechanism in society.