| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| Canada | Award for Excellence in Book Design | Alcuin Society | Excellence in book design |
| Canada | Graphex | Society of Graphic Designers of Canada | Best examples of visual communication design |
| United States | Good Design Award | Museum of Modern Art | Good Design |
| United States | Miller Prize | Exhibit Columbus | Exploration of architecture, art, design, and community |
| United States | Cased | American Institute of Graphic Arts | Celebrating the best in contemporary design through case studies |
| United States | Type Design Awards | Type Directors Club | Excellence in typeface design |
| United States | American Prize for Design | Chicago Athenaeum | Distinguished designer in the fields of industrial design, visual communication and graphic design |
| United States | Andrea M. Bronfman Prize for the Arts | Charles Bronfman | Israeli decorative artist working in ceramics, glass, textiles or jewellery |
| United States | Apple Design Awards | Apple Inc. | Best and most innovative Macintosh and iOS software and hardware produced by independent developers |
| United States | Art Directors Club Hall of Fame | Art Directors Club of New York | Significant contributions to art direction and visual communications |
| United States | Chrysler Design Award | Chrysler | Achievements of individuals in innovative works of architecture and design which significantly influenced modern American culture |
| United States | Coin of the Year Award | Krause Publications | Numismatic design, artistic vision and craftsmanship |
| United States | Curry Stone Design Prize | Curry Stone Foundation | Innovative excellence in humanitarian design |
| United States | Design Icon Award | World Market Center Las Vegas | Interior or furniture designer who has made a significant contribution to the industry |
| United States | Edison Award | Edison Awards | Honoring excellence in innovation |
| United States | Frederic W. Goudy Award | Rochester Institute of Technology | Outstanding practitioner in the field of typography |
| United States | Good Design Award | Chicago Athenaeum | various categories |
| United States | Housewares Design Awards | HomeWorld Business | Recognize design innovation as one of the major drivers for housewares industry growth |
| United States | International Design Awards | Farmani Group | Visionaries and emerging talent in architecture, interior, product, graphic and fashion design |
| United States | International Design Excellence Awards | Industrial Designers Society of America | Fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy |
| United States | L Prize | United States Department of Energy | Spur lighting manufacturers to develop high-quality, high-efficiency solid-state lighting products to replace the common incandescent light bulb |
| United States | National Design Awards | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | Recognizing design in USA to educate and promote excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement |
| United States | Phil Kaufman Award | Electronic System Design Alliance | Recognize individuals for their impact on electronic design by their contributions to electronic design automation |
| United States | The Earth Awards | Earth Awards | Global search for creative solutions designed for the 21st century |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| Australia | Australian Good Design Awards | Industrial Design Council of Australia | National design awards for industrial design |
| Australia | Greenpeace Design Awards | Greenpeace Australia Pacific | Innovative and creative individuals whose work best reflects environmental concerns in a visually striking and iconic way |
| India | NCPEDP MphasiS Universal Design Awards | National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People / Mphasis | Individuals and organisations doing exemplary work towards the cause of accessibility and thus ensuring a life of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities |
| Japan | Good Design Award | Japan Institute of Design Promotion | Product that can bless and enrich society and people's lives through its design |
| Japan | Mainichi Design Prize | Mainichi Shimbun | Outstanding Japanese designers |
| Singapore | Singapore Jewellery Design Award | Singapore Jewellery association | Competition among art school students |
| South Korea | K-Design Award | DESIGNSORI | Product, communication, transportation, space and service design |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| Europe | Design Management Europe Award | Design Management Europe | Management and successful implementation of design in processes and strategies to achieve business goals |
| Europe | European Design Award | Ico-D | Outstanding work in the communication design field |
| Denmark | Danish Design Award | Danish Design Centre | All design disciplines, with focus on form, function and value creation |
| Denmark | Finn Juhl Prize | Wilhelm Hansen Foundation | Special effort in the field of furniture design–with special reference to chairs |
| Denmark | The Index Project | The Index Project | Improvement of life worldwide, both in developed and developing countries |
| Finland | Kaj Franck Prize | Design Forum Finland | Finnish design |
| Finland | Fennia Prize | Design Forum Finland, Fennia Group | Good design grows global competition |
| France | Observeur du Design | Agence pour la promotion de la création industrielle | Design as a key factor in business competitiveness as well as economic, social and cultural innovation |
| France | Peugeot Concours Design | Peugeot | Designs for a car |
| France | Prix Versailles | World Prix Versailles Organization | Creation of quality spaces in every inhabited area |
| Germany | German Design Award | Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy | Innovative products and projects, their manufacturers and designers in the German and international design sector |
| Germany | IF Product Design Award | International Forum Design | Multiple disciplines |
| Germany | Kind + Jugend Innovation Award | Kind + Jugend trade fair | Best overall baby product in the areas of design, safety, user-friendliness, degree of innovation, and quality of workmanship |
| Germany | Red Dot | Red Dot GmbH | Product design, brand and communication design as well as design concepts |
| Italy | Compasso d'Oro | Associazione per il Disegno Industriale | Acknowledge and promote quality in the field of industrial designs made in Italy |
| Netherlands | Benno Premsela Prize | Mondriaan Fonds | A person who has played a stimulating role in the field of visual arts, design or architecture |
| Netherlands | Dutch Design Awards | Dutch Design Award Foundation | Honor design initiatives and designers in the Netherlands |
| Netherlands | Dutch Furniture Awards | Dutch Furniture Awards | Dutch furniture design |
| Netherlands | Gerrit Noordzij Prize | Royal Academy of Art, The Hague | Extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography and type education |
| Netherlands | Rotterdam Design Award | Rotterdam Design Award | Conceptual vision and performance in the field of the designer |
| Nordic countries | Forum AID Award | Forum AID | Architecture, Interiors, Design and Best Student Work |
| Norway | National Norwegian Design Awards | Visuelt | Professionals working with visual communication in Norway |
| Scandinavia | Lunning Prize | Frederik Lunning | Eminent Scandinavian designers |
| Serbia | Belgrade Design Week | Belgrade Design Week festival | Architecture, design, fashion, publishing, and new media |
| Serbia | Mikser Festival | Maja Vidaković Lalić | Design, architecture, urban planning, new technologies etc. in Serbia |
| Spain | IED Design Awards | Istituto Europeo di Design | People and projects that stand out within the design world |
| Sweden | Excellent Swedish Design | Swedish Society of Crafts and Design | Professional design organizations and their producers |
| Sweden | Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize | Röhsska Museum | Active Nordic designer or craftsman |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| United Kingdom | Black Pencil | Design and Art Direction | Excellence in design and advertising |
| United Kingdom | British Inspiration Awards | British Inspiration Awards | Achievement in the creative industries of Britain |
| United Kingdom | Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts | Royal Society of Arts | A person who, in a manner other than as an industrial designer, has applied art and design in great effect as instruments of civic innovation |
| United Kingdom | Brunel Award | The Watford Group | Visual design in railway architecture, graphics, industrial design and art, etc. |
| United Kingdom | Craft and design gold medal | National Eisteddfod of Wales | Excellence in Craft and Design |
| United Kingdom | ISTD International Typographic Awards | International Society of Typographic Designers | Current standards in typographic design |
| United Kingdom | James Dyson Award | James Dyson Foundation | Challenges young people to design something that solves a problem |
| United Kingdom | Kent Design Awards | Kent County Council | Design excellence in Kent |
| United Kingdom | Loo of the Year Awards | Loo of the Year Awards | Best toilets in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands |
| United Kingdom | Millennium product | Design Council | British products and companies which show "imagination, ingenuity and inspiration" as well as "innovation, creativity and design" |
| United Kingdom | Phillips Gold Medal | Phillips Gold Medal | Person who has contributed the most to British postage stamp design in recent years |
| United Kingdom | Prince Philip Designers Prize | Chartered Society of Designers | Design career which has upheld the highest standards and broken new ground |
| United Kingdom | Pub Design Awards | Campaign for Real Ale | Exceptional pubs in the UK that have been newly built/converted or have recently undergone building/conservation work |
| United Kingdom | Royal Designers for Industry | Royal Society of Arts | Encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers |
| United Kingdom | The Sir Misha Black Awards | Design and Industries Association etc. | Individuals and institutions, to honour them in their role within design education |
| United Kingdom | Wood Awards | Worshipful Company of Carpenters | Working with wood in buildings and furniture |
