Red Dot Award: Product Design
Red Dot GmbH Essen · open to applicants worldwide
International product design competition with dozens of categories; winners may use the Red Dot label and are honoured at an award ceremony in Essen.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your nomination packet for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: Red Dot winner label; award ceremony in Essen; free places for recent graduates via Young Professionals draw.
Who can apply: Manufacturers, designers and studios may enter products; free places for recent graduates via a Young Professionals draw.
Cost: €470–€935 per product depending on registration phase (excl. VAT); winner package extra.
Annual: early bird Sept–Oct, regular until Dec 11, 2026, latecomer until Jan 15, 2027. Next deadline: 2026-12-11.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there); a payment is part of applying.
What to prepare: photos, product description.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Register in just a few steps via the My Red Dot portal.”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers, founders, working professionals
- Manufacturers, designers and studios may enter products; free places for recent graduates via a Young Professionals draw.
What you will need
- Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
- One-pagerOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name. The deadline is 11 December 2026.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done. There is a fee to pay to the organiser; payment always stays with you.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your nomination packet for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Red Dot GmbH without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.