World Design Rankings

Posted on Mon, 6 Jan 2025 by midcenturyjo

BREAKING NEWS! The World Design Rankings have been announced for 2024. Who do you think topped the list? Where did your country come? What are World Design Rankings? WDR ranks all the countries based on the number of designers granted an A’ Design Award. This year China beat the United States to the top spot among the 113 represented countries, followed by Japan, Italy, Hong Kong, Great Britain, Taiwan, Turkey, Germany and Portugal rounding out the top 10. (Australia made it in at 11 and Canada is at 19.) You can check out the complete list here and when you’re there you can even zoom into a country level, click on the country name in the rankings table and you will be able to see top designers from that country. The best designers in that country will be displayed first.

The ultimate aim of the World Design Rankings is to contribute to global design culture by advocating and highlighting good design. The rankings provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art and design potentials of countries worldwide by highlighting their creative strengths, design weaknesses and available opportunities. With the best of the best showcased in hundreds of design fields and categories the Design Classifications allow you to choose the top-ranking designers, artists and architects for your next project be it in architecture, interior design, furniture design, fashion design, graphics design, packaging design and more.

For several years Desire to Inspire has partnered with the A’ Design Award & Competition, the world’s largest annual juried design competition that honors the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies worldwide to provide them publicity, fame and recognition. Such an exciting competition. Such a prestigious award. If you think you have what it takes to enter you can do so here.

In the meantime here are some of my favourite winners from 2023-2024.