Design award of the German Democratic Republic

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Medal "GOOD DESIGN", small version with medal clasp, front, GDR, 1980, Meissen porcelain
Medal "GOOD DESIGN", small version with medal clasp, back, GDR, 1980, Meissen porcelain
Medal "GOOD DESIGN", large version, front, GDR, 1980, Meissen porcelain
Medal "GOOD DESIGN", large version, reverse (damaged), GDR, 1980, Meissen porcelain

The Design Prize of the German Democratic Republic was a state award of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was decided in 1978 by the State Council of the GDR and donated in the form of a medal and was first awarded by the Office for Industrial Design (AiF) in 1979. The prerequisite for receiving the award were outstanding achievements that made a significant contribution to better satisfying the material and cultural needs of the population and to increasing economic productivity in the areas of the design of industrial products or complex environmental areas or the promotion and implementation of design tasks for the GDR were. The design prize could be awarded to both individuals and collectives of up to six people, with each of these members receiving a medal in the event of an award up to six collective members. The medal and certificates were awarded once or twice a year on May 1st (less often) and on Republic Day on October 7th by the head of the Office for Industrial Design. The premium for the price was 5,000 GDR marks for individuals and up to 20,000 GDR marks for collectives.

The prize was also given to foreign companies and designers, e. B. to Atari and Siemens .

The GDR Design Prize was awarded for promoting young designers.

The big medal

The large medal has a diameter of 80 mm and weighs 95 g. The year of the respective award is given on the front. The large medal was presented in a white case.

Appearance and way of wearing the small medal

The medal with a diameter of 32 mm shows the symbol for good design in the center of its obverse , which represents the two letters G and D , which have the shape of a bracketed circular disc. Above it is the inscription: GUTES DESIGN and below DER DDR . The reverse of the medal shows the state coat of arms of the GDR and the Meissen swords . The medal was worn on the upper left side of the chest on a rectangular, white-covered clasp, which is closed on both sides by a 1 mm wide blue vertical stripe on the outside. This in turn is followed by a 5 mm wide gray edge strip. The interim clasp was of the same quality, but also showed a 10 mm diameter miniature of the obverse of the medal in its center, which was also silver-plated.

Award winners (selection)

Design and manufacture

The signet was designed in 1978 by Dietrich Otte based on the object "Klammerte Scheiben" (bracketed panes) by Hermann Glöckner . Variants of the "GOOD DESIGN" medal were made from Meissen porcelain in the Meissen porcelain factory . The DESIGN FÖRDERPREIS was executed in brown Meißner Böttger and the medal “DESIGN PRICE” was embossed in silver.

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ SLUB Dresden: Form + Purpose. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
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  11. ↑ Heinz Hirdina: Design for the series . Ed .: AiF & Bauhaus Dessau. VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1988, p. 236 .