The names of the products, including Dinamika Marble Edition, added to the ADI Design Index and thus chosen as candidates for the ADI Compasso d’Oro award, were announced during an evening event at the ADI Design Museum in Milan on 30 October 2024.
Only products admitted to the ADI Design Index 2023-2024 are eligible for the ADI Compasso d’Oro 2026 award, the prize’s 70th edition.
The ADI Compasso d’Oro, launched in 1954, is not only the oldest but also the most coveted global design award. It is presented every two years.
Originating from an idea by Gio Ponti, for many years it was based at the Rinascente department store.
Every year, the ADI selects the best Italian design put into production, such as the Dinamika Marble Edition ceramic surfaces, which are outstanding in their originality and innovation in function and type, their production processes, the materials used and the consistency of their formal design.
The Dinamika Marble Edition collection comprises a range of exquisite marble-effect ceramic slabs with a strictly natural aesthetic achieved through the perfect synchrony of patterning and structure. Thanks to the Dinamika technology every single detail is enhanced, exactly as in quarried marble.
ADI focuses in particular on products that reflect environmental stewardship, public and social value, a focus on usability, interaction and Design for All.
ADI, founded in 1956, brings together architects, businesses, academics, teachers, critics and journalists working in the various aspects of design: creation, consumption, recycling and education. A non-profit organisation, it promotes and helps to implement the most appropriate conditions for the design of goods and services through cultural debate, the lobbying of institutions and the supply of services.
The more than three hundred and fifty designs which have received the award and the almost two thousand selected for an Honourable Mention are all conserved in the Historic Collection of the ADI Compasso d'Oro Award, managed by the ADI Foundation.
Since the Fifties, many selection criteria for admission and even the product categories themselves have changed. Initially, almost all selected products were furnishings. Today, entrants may include digital interfaces, new sectors and new materials and technologies, 3D graphics, innovative, fluid lifestyles, cars, boats and working equipment.
In a recent interview, ADI chair Luciano Galimberti explained that, “seventy years on, the Compasso d’Oro still showcases the best of Italian design; awards are assigned not simply to the most widely used or most attractive items, but to those which best embody the idea of Italian design itself. The Compasso d’Oro is a tool for measuring these special qualities, which derive from the convergence of a set of exceptional factors: social, aesthetic, industrial and economic.” During the announcement of the selected products, he stated: “The ADI Design Index selection process attempts to clearly reflect the idea of quality supported by the ADI during the many events promoting Italian design and manufacturing at which it takes part and where it applies these criteria. Our aim is to transform the affirmation of this concept of quality into a competitive advantage.”
The ADI’s next major challenge will be in Japan. At the Osaka Expo in 2025, the ADI will be running the “Compasso d’Oro International Award”, a global version of the award to be presented to the most innovative projects within the context of the Expo’s overall themes.
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