DESIGNBOOM announces WORLD DESIGN RANKINGS 2022
As one year ends and another beings, we announce the World Design Rankings (WDR) for 2022 alongside theA’ Design Award and Competition. The rankings list participating countries in order of the number of their designers that have acclaimed an A’ Design Award.
In a similar pattern to 2020 and 2021, china tops the 114-country-strong table again with the highest number of awards won. The nine highest ranking countries remain in the same sequence in 2022, but Portugal replace Australia in tenth position.
Each entry from around the globe is carefully, methodically and fairly evaluated by a renowned jury panel that considers talent, creativity and originality, as the key criteria. The awards are ranked as platinum, gold, silver, bronze and iron, and are distributed in over 100 different categories and sub-groupings, such as architecture, building and structure design; lighting products and projects design; and vehicle, mobility and transportation design.
Represent your country in the World Design Rankings by registering and submitting your project to the 2023 A’ Design Award and Competition!
World Design Rankings Heatmap of winning designers per country
The WDR – world design rankings illustrates the latest and state-of-the-art in the design and architectural industries to economists, journalists and other industry experts. The goal is to contribute and enrich the global design culture by advocating, rewarding and highlighting the best of creativity. A‘design business insights’ section provides a ranking of countries based on their success in diverse design fields and categories. The media, industry professionals and enthusiasts of the different fields can discover the designweaknesses,strengthsandopportunities of each country through 100 specific design sectors, such as interiors, lighting, furniture and architecture.
Find the full table with all 114 participating countries for the world design rankings 2022!
The latest table for the World Design Rankings 2022
highlight award winners from 2022
Thetop designers, artists and architects, regardless of the discipline, can be discovered on the partnering Design Rankings. The platform assigns an overall score and lists the designers based on the number of awards won globally. This is spread out across hundreds of creative fields including product design, graphics, packaging, architecture, interiors as well as fashion.
Enter the 2023 A’ Design Award and Competition by registering and submitting your work – here.
Sky Bar Roof Top Restaurant by Ketan Jawdekar, 2022
Image credit Sameer Chawda
name:Sky Bar
designers:Ketan Jawdekar, Rajvardhan Kamire, Atreyi Sawant
award:Silver
category:Interior Space and Exhibition Design
First Shiguangli Marketing Center by Shanhejinyuan, 2021
Image credit Zhang Qilin
name:First Shiguangli
award:Platinum
category:Interior Space and Exhibition Design
