After the awards ceremony at Expo Osaka, the winning projects arrive at the ADI Design Museum with an exhibition dedicated to the key themes of innovation, sustainability, and human-centered design
The International Compasso d’Oro Award 2025 confirms its role as a global observatory on the transformations of contemporary design. Promoted by ADI – Associazione per il Disegno Industriale in collaboration with the General Commissioner for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, the award embraces the theme of the Universal Exposition, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” highlighting how design can contribute to more sustainable, inclusive, and people-oriented models of living.
Awards Presented at Expo 2025 Osaka
On September 5, at the Italy Pavilion, the international jury presented 20 Compasso d’Oro Awards and 35 Honorable Mentions to projects from around the world. The selected proposals share a strong ability to interpret ongoing global changes and develop innovative solutions within the three main areas of the Expo: Saving Lives, Empowering Lives, Connecting Lives.
International Compasso d’Oro Award 2025: Milan Welcomes the Winners
After the exhibition in Japan, the International Compasso d’Oro Award 2025 arrives in Milan. On December 9, 2025, the ADI Design Museum presented the winning projects by inaugurating the Italian exhibition, which revisits the highlights of the Osaka ceremony. The exhibition, open until January 6, 2026, allows visitors to explore up close the solutions that aim to redefine the future of global design.
Emerging Trends in International Design 2025
The awarded projects outline several key trajectories for the design of tomorrow:
- Well-being and health, through care tools and accessible solutions.
- Sustainability, with recycled and bio-based materials, circular processes, and reduced resource impact.
- Inclusive technology, aimed at improving everyday life.
- Tradition and innovation, in dialogue to create new design languages.
- Design as a narrative medium, capable of generating sensory and emotional connections.
A Growing Heritage
The selected projects will become part of the permanent Compasso d’Oro Collection, housed at the ADI Design Museum. The museum preserves more than 2,500 works that illustrate the evolution of design from 1954 to today. It is a dynamic archive that continues to expand and narrate the development of the discipline, consolidating the museum’s role as an international point of reference.
