Design Organization of the Year (DOTY)
For the year's most complete design organization, the one that does it all best.
Judged on
- Foundations
- Craft
- Teams
[The Design Codex Awards]
Honoring the teams and leaders behind great design.
Three distinctions for the work that makes design matter inside the companies you know. Judged by peers, revealed on stage at the Conclave.
Apply[The distinctions]
Three distinctions, one for each way design earns its place: the organization, the leader, the work.
Design Leadership Excellence
For a leader who sets standards that move the frontier of design leadership.
Judged on
- Influence
- Vision
- People
Design Impact Award
For the design work whose impact reached the whole business, not just the product.
Judged on
- Outcome
- Reach
- Evidence
[The road to Conclave]
- September 4Now
Candidacies open
Apply from inside The Society. A short case for your organization, your leadership, or your work.
- October 2
The jury reads
The jury reads every candidacy and scores it against the same criteria.
- November 6
Finalists called
Two finalists per distinction, told in private and invited to the Conclave.
- December 4
Revealed on stage
The laureates are named live, on stage at the Conclave in Paris.
Discover the Conclave
[The jury]
Judged by people who've done the work.
Every candidacy is read by a jury of Designshot and 4 design leaders across Europe. People who have built organizations, led teams, and shipped the work these awards look for. The bar is peer respect, not applause.
- Design leaders, not press or sponsors.
- Practitioners who've built what they judge.
- Scored on the work, not the name.
[The Design Codex]
The awards carry the name of the Design Codex, our living atlas of design organizations.
[Apply]
Candidacies live inside The Society.
The Design Codex Awards are part of The Society, our private community of design leaders. You apply from inside the experience: your Codex page, plus a short dossier, submitted in a few steps.
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