Designers are known for their love of solving problems. With bright minds and lit up eyes, they are able to derive gaps and insights with ideas and concepts to follow through.

However, how do you manage stakeholders after presenting great ideas?

Social responsibility may be easy to say, but it’s harder to put it into practice. How can we be kinder to not only our neighbours, but to everyone in our society?

The award was conceived in 1988 and unveiled by then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at the first Singapore International Design Forum. It honours outstanding individuals and companies for creating innovative designs and applying a human-centric approach. This year, we’ve changed the game to acknowledge the evolution of a designer’s role.