With the DDC AWARD 2025 WHAT IS GOOD, the design competition of the DDC Deutscher Design Club has been fundamentally reoriented: towards a design understanding that places attitude, effectiveness, and responsibility at its core. The publication DDC AWARD 2025 WHAT IS GOOD – Good Design and Courage for Transformation documents the competition, the symposium and networking event, as well as its background, criteria, and awarded works.

It gathers projects that demonstrate how design makes democracy visible, transforms cities, rethinks health, and understands sustainability not as an accessory but as a design task. Through articles, interviews, and statements, it offers a variety of different perspectives to comprehend design not only as a discipline but as a societal competence and transformative force.

• Editors: Deutscher Design Club e. V., Thomas Jäger, Simone Leitenberger, Michael Menge, Prof. Bettina Otto, Dara Sepehri, Wolf Wagner
• Authors: Karianne Fogelberg, Thomas Jäger, Rolf Krämer, Simone Leitenberger, Michael Menge, Prof. Bettina Otto, Dara Sepehri, Dr. Amyn Vogel, Susanne Wacker, Wolf Wagner
• Publisher form
• Design: Studio Franz GmbH, Valeriia Kapustina, Michael Menge
• German
• 200 pages
• over 400 illustrations
• Format: 280 mm W x 370 mm H
• Perfect binding, cover with blind embossing
• ISBN 978-3-943962-79-6
• Publication date May 2026