Professional Practice
2026 National Design Awards
Date: 4/10/2025 - 5/6/2025
Type: Competitions / Awards
Description:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is pleased to announce the 26th annual National Design Awards open call for nominations.
Do you know a designer whose innovation and impact is improving our world? Nominate by May 6, 2025.
The National Design Awards is a Cooper Hewitt initiative launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council. The Awards and its associated public programs seek to increase national awareness of the impact of design in our everyday life.
Categories include:
- Landscape Architecture
- Climate Action
- Design Visionary
- Digital Design
- Emerging Designer
Use the online form to nominate exceptional candidates who have made meaningful contributions to the world through design for the 2026 National Design Awards.