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ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale
Address: Via Bramante, 29
City: I-20154 Milano
Country: Italy
ADI is the Italian Association for Industrial Design. ADI is a non-profit making cultural association founded in 1956 to bring together designers, enterprises, researchers, teachers, critics and journalists working in the field of design, from training to consumption and recycling. Its aims are to promote and spread awareness about industrial design, in order to encourage its development as a cultural and socio-economic phenomenon, and to supply services to enterprise and designers.
ADI is an active member of the CNEL, the Italian consultative committee for the non-regulated professions, for the purpose of achieving full legal recognition of the profession of designer. ADI holds a Design Register, where designers can deposit their works as a means of protecting their intellectual property.
Working together with Confindustria, the Confederation of Italian Industry, ADI promoted the establishment of a Design Jury, whose purpose is to placate intellectual property conflicts in the field of industrial design.
At international level, ADI is a founder member of ICSID, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, and of BEDA, the Bureau of European Designers Associations. ADI is also a member of Icograda, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations.
ADI is organized in three departments (Designers, Enterprises and the General Department) and is active throughout the country via its five Territorial Delegations (ADI Adriatica, in Pesaro; ADI Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in Udine; ADIDOC, in Turin; ADI Nord Est, in Verona, and ADI Roma, in Rome). In addition, ADI keeps in tune with the burning topics of industrial design through two Thematic Delegations (Design and Disability and Computer Instruments for Design) and the ADI Giovani youth group, whose membership is open to members aged up to 35 and devoted to how young people find their way into the profession.
### The Compasso d’Oro ADI Award
Since 1962, ADI has owned and managed the Compasso d’Oro Award, the oldest and most prestigious of all the acknowledgements devised for Italian industrial design.
This award was founded in 1954 after the idea had been suggested by Giò Ponti. It was the first award of its kind in Europe and soon took on an international dimension and relevance, multiplying the occasions on which the exhibitions of award-winning objects were held in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan.
Since 1997, the objects that have won the award in the forty years of its history have found a new permanent home that organizes thematic and specialised exhibitions at regular intervals: the Historical Collection of the Compasso d’Oro can be visited at the Gallery of Design and Furnishings in piazza Garibaldi 5, in Cantù, twenty minutes from Milan.
Every three years the works published in ADI Design Index are the basis for the Compasso d’Oro Jury, that picks out about 200 of them for the Compasso d’Oro exhibition. Among all these works, the Jury chooses the Compasso d’Oro Awards, the Best of categories Prizes and the Junior Project Plate.
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