iF DESIGN AWARD Announces New Sustainability Criteria, 2025 Final Deadline Approaching on November 6th | PR Newswire [Video]

• Sustainability criteria is one-fifth of overall jury score across 82 categories
• The Sustainability Working Group – a multidisciplinary group of international impact experts – helped develop questions for the sustainability criteria
• Lisa Gralnek appointed as iF Design Global Head of Sustainability and Impact

, /PRNewswire/ — iF Design, a respected member of the international design community since 1953, and host of the prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD, is announcing a significant update to its 2025 award. Sustainability will now represent one-fifth of the judging criteria across the Award’s nine design disciplines and 82 categories, evaluated equally alongside Idea, Form, Function and Differentiation. As part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to excellence and impact in design, the iF DESIGN AWARD has replaced the former Impact criteria, which included commercial considerations, with Sustainability, which focuses entirely on social and environmental factors. With this, iF Design is underlining its ongoing commitment to elevating this important conversation …