Compasso d'Oro
Compasso d'Oro logo
Awarded forIndustrial design award
LocationADI Design Museum (Milan)
CountryItaly
Presented byAssociazione per il Disegno Industriale
First awarded1954
Websiteadidesignmuseum.org

Compasso d'Oro (Italian pronunciation: [komˈpasso ˈdɔːro]; Golden Compass) is the name of an industrial design award originated in Italy in 1954. The award was first sponsored by the La Rinascente, a Milanese department store. It has been organised and managed by the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI) since 1958. It is the first, and among the most recognized and respected awards in its field. The Compasso d'Oro aims to acknowledge and promote quality in the field of industrial design in Italy and internationally.[1]

La Rinascente Compasso d'Oro award for the product aesthetics, 3rd edition, Milan 1956. Exhibition of object in contest. Photo by Paolo Monti (Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC).
Compasso d'Oro award trophy (1967)

History

The Compasso d′Oro was established in 1954, and now it is the highest honour in the field of industrial design in Italy,[2] comparable to other prestigious international awards such as the Good Design award, iF Design Award, Red Dot Award, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, and the Good Design Award (Japan). It was the first award of its kind in Europe and soon took on an international dimension and relevance, multiplying the occasions on which the exhibitions of award-winning objects were held in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan.

The original idea for the award is credited to Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli. Many other leading architects and designers of the era including the Castiglioni brothers (Livio, Pier Giacomo, and Achille), Albe Steiner (whose logo design was inspired by Adalbert Goeringer's golden section compass), Enzo Mari and Marco Zanuso were involved in its inception.[1][3]

At present the management department of the Compasso d'Oro is Italy Industrial Designing Association, and it is also the members of the International Industrial Designing Committee and the European Designing Bureau.

Since its inception, approximately 350 designers have been honoured the Award,[1] covering a wide range of products such as racing bikes, portable sewing machines, desks, sofas, vases, clothes hangers, drawers, clocks, desk lamps, telephones, electric fans and coffee machines.

The ADI Design Museum in Milan houses the historical collection of the ADI Compasso d’Oro Foundation, as well as temporary exhibitions, public talks and initiatives. On 22 April 2004, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – through its Superintendency for Lombardy – declared the collection of "exceptional artistic and historical interest", thus making it part of the national cultural heritage.[4]

List of Compasso d'Oro Awards

YearJuryEntriesADI presidentWinners
1st1954Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Gio Ponti, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso570015
2nd1955Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, E. N. Rogers, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso130012
3rd1956Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Alberto Rosselli1450Alberto Rosselli (Birth of the ADI)9
4th1957Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Ignazio Gardella1200Giulio Castelli5
5th1959Bruno Alfieri, Vico Magistretti, Giulio Minoletti, Augusto Morello, Giovanni Romano1200Livio Castiglioni6
6th1960Ludovico Belgiojoso, Vico Magistretti, Augusto Magnaghi, Augusto Morello, Marco Zanuso800Franco Albini10
7th1962Giulio Castelli, Franco Momigliano, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Battista PininfarinaRoberto Olivetti9
8th1964Massimo Vignelli, Dante Giacosa, Vittorio Gregotti, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Gino ValleAldo Basetti6
9th1967Aldo Basetti, Felice Dessi, Gillo Dorfles, Tomás Maldonado, Edoardo VittoriaMarco Zanuso13
10th1970Francesco Mazzucca, Franco Albini, Jean Baudrillard, Achille Castiglioni, Federico Correa, Vittorio Gregotti, Roberto Guiducci, Albe SteinerAnna Castelli Ferrieri10
11th1979Andrea Branzi, Clino Trini Castelli, Massimo Morozzi, Angelo Cortesi, Gillo Dorfles, Augusto Morello, Arthur Pulos, Yuri Soloviev, Nanni Strada1167Enzo Mari39
12th1981François Barrè, Cesare De Seta, Martin Kelm, Ugo La Pietra, Pierluigi SpadoliniRodolfo Bonetto16
13th1984Cino Boeri, Douglas Kelley, Antti Nurmesniemi, Giotto Stoppino, Bruno ZeviGiotto Stoppino11
14th1987Angelo Cortesi, Rodolfo Bonetto, Marino Marini, Cara Mc Carty, Philippe StarckAngelo Cortesi16
15th1989Pierliugi Molinari, Fredrik Wildhagen, Hans Wichmann, Cesare Stevan, Tomás MaldonadoPierluigi Molinari12
16th1991Silvio Ceccato, Marcello Inghilesi, Victor Margolin, Pierluigi Molinari, Antti Nurmesniemi, Vito NotoAngelo Cortesi14
17th1994Dante Giacosa, Vittoriano Viganò, Giovanni Anceschi, Paola Antonelli, Uta Brandes, Jacob Gantenbein, Marja Heemskerk, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Marco Migliari, Gianemiglio Monti, Mario Trimarchi, Vito NotoAugusto Morello13
18th1998Achille Castiglioni, Giuseppe De Rita, Marianne Frandsen, Fritz Frenkler, Sadik Karamustafa, Tomás Maldonado, Marco ZanusoAugusto Morello15
19th2001Marie-Laure Jousset, Filippo Alison, François Burkhardt, Omar Calabrese, Francisco Jarauta, Maurizio Morgantini, Erik SpiekermannGiancarlo Iliprandi17
20th2004Tomas Maldonado, Fulya Erdemci, Robert Fitzpatrick, Yutaka Mino, Pietro Petraroia, Richard Sapper, Angela Schönberger, Tomàš VlčekCarlo Forcolini15
21st2008Mario Bellini, Moh-Jin Chew, Lieven Daenens, Carla Di Francesco, Carlo Forcolini, Norbert Linke, Emanuele Pirella, Richard R. Whitaker, Miguel Milá12
22nd2011Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis, Chantal Clavier Hamaide, Umberto Croppi, Guto Indio Da Costa, Pierre Keller, Cecilie Manz, Clive Roux, Shiling Zheng22
23rd2014Anders Byriel, Vivian Cheng, Giorgio De Ferrari, Stefan Diez, Defne Koz, Mario Gagnon, Paolo Lomazzi, Laura Traldi23[5]

Trivia

The award is given as a Compass, the one invented by Adalbert Goeringer in 1893 to measure the Golden Section.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The ADI Compasso d'Oro Award". ADI Design Museum. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  2. ↑ "The history of the Compasso d'Oro through 20 projects". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  3. ↑ "Dettaglio News - architetti". www.architetti.san.beniculturali.it. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Compasso d'Oro". ADI Associazione per il disegno industriale. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Kenji Ekuan, designer of the classic soy sauce dispenser, dead at age 85". Japan Times. February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ Alessi, Alberto (1998). The Dream Factory: Alessi since 1921. Könemann. p. 29. ISBN 3-8290-1377-9.

Further reading

  • Charlotte Fiell; Peter Fiell (2006). Industrial Design A-Z. London: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-5057-2.
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