Between the 6th and the 11th June was staged the prize-giving ceremonies of the FAD associations at the different disciplines of design along the FADfest: FAD Awards to Architecture and Interior Design and Habitàcola for students, Delta Awards to Product Design, ADI Medals for design students and ADI Culture Awards, Laus Awards to Graphic Design and Visual Communication.

FAD Awards to Architecture and Interior Design by ARQUIN-FAD

496 works were entered in this new edition between all the categories. The architect Moisés Gallego chaired the jury of this 58^th edition of the awards, which comprised the following members: Patricia Barbas, Eduardo de Miguel, Maite Prats, Rosa Remolà and Julia Schulz-Dornburg. In the preceding months, this judging panel travelled around the Iberian peninsula, touring the longlisted works. 

The jury announced the following awards:                  

-FAD Award to Architecture 2016:
Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas. 

Azores (Portugal)

-FAD Award to Interior Design 2016: Three subway stations on Line 9 of the Barcelona's underground (Spain)

-FAD Award to City and Landscape:

Mirador da Pedra da Rá. Riveira, A Coruña (Spain)

-FAD Award to Ephemeral Interventions:

Espècies d’Espais, Exhibition MACBA, Barcelona (Spain)

-International FAD Award 2016:

Córdoba Reurbano Mexico City (Mexico)

-Awards to Thought and Critique 2016:

Suspicion of Manure. Josep Maria Jujol and Casa Mañach

-Awards to Thought and Critique 2016:

Block Factory 

Francisco García Triviño, Jose Manuel López Ujaque, hipoTesis and article authors Katerina Psegiannaki, Fernando Nieto Fernández, hipoTesis Carlos Álvarez Clemente, Lucía Martín de Aguilera Mielgo, Franca Alexandra Sonntag, Ricardo Montoro Coso, Carolina Cabello Sánchez, Clara Dios Díez, Mateo Fernández Muro, Félix de la Fuente González, Pablo Villalonga Munar, Aurora Andrea González Garrán, Alberto Jonás Murias Suárez, Paula Pérez Rodríguez, Ana Belén López Plazas, Arantzazu Luzárraga Iturrioz, Álvaro Martín Fidalgo, Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar, Luís Navarro Jover, Antonio Jesús Palacios Ortíz, Gonzalo Pardo Díaz, article authors.             

-Award to trajectory: Juan José Lahuerta for his contribution to architectural thought and critique, which he has deployed in different facets as essayist, editor, professor, exhibition curator, etc.

ADI-FAD Awards to Industrial and product Design 

The ADI-FAD Industrial Design Association organises these prizes, which cover the principal recognitions to industrial and product design in Spain: the Delta Awards and the ADI Medals for students. Furthermore, for the first time in its history, the ADI Awards include a prize that pays homage to the culture of design and its contribution to society, the ADI Culture Award. For this edition the jury was presided by Jasper Morrison, British designer and the vocals Jeannette Altherr, industrial designer, co-founder of the Lievore Altherr Molina studio; Alexader von Vegesack, founder and president of CIRECA and prime mover of Domaine de Boisbuchet; Xavier Costa, CEO of Lékué; and Gracia Cardona, chair of ADI-FAD, co-founder and current director of the diarioDESIGN online publication. Toghether they decided to award 1 Gold Delta and 8 Silver Deltas to the following projects:

-Gold Delta Award 2016:

Closca Design designed by CuldeSac Closca Fuga

-Silver Delta Awards 2016: 

Bernardes Bench designed by Andreu Carulla Studio

Barcelona Shutter designed by Pau Sarquella i Diana Usón

Hotel Hanger designed by Borja García Studio

Io designed by Rubén Saldaña – Arkoslight’s Head of Design

KFN 29233 D BlackBoard designed by the Design Department of Miele

Mallorca's tiles designed by Estudi Carme Pinós

Santorini designed by Sputnik Estudio

Serif designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

-ADI Culture Award 2016

'Adhocracy Athens: From making things to making the commons' by Ethel Baraona, César Reyes, Pelin Tan

-ADI Culture Award to Trajectory

Sala Vinçon

-ADI Medal Awards 2016 for students
Gold

Plow 2.7 designed by Roc Miranda i Fuentes

Silver

Drain-Wi designed by Cristóbal Carabante Sánchez

Bronze

Glop designed by Berta Julià Sala

Laus Awards 2016 to Graphic Design, Digital, Advertising, Audiovisual and Student, by ADG-FAD
The winners of this year’s Laus Awards were announced at a ceremony in Barcelona’s Design Museum last Friday, with judges giving 1 Grand Laus and 8 Gold Trophies in the Graphic Design category. 1188 national and international entries were submitted in total across all categories (graphic design, digital, advertising, audiovisual and students). 

-Honorary Laus 2016:
Yves Zimmermann

-Laus Company Award:
La Fábrica

-Grand Laus – Graphic Design:
Javier Jaén for The New York Times Magazine

-Grand Laus – Digital:
Hologramas por la libertad

-Young Talent:
Nu.
 

-Laus Aporta – Fundació Banc Sabadell:

This prize recognises projects that stand out for their social, economic or cultural contribution

In the professional category:

Cenizas (Ashes) by the agency McCann Madrid to Campofrío

In the students category:

Think, the veggie ink by Eva Vesikansa from the school IDEP Barcelona

All of the winners and finalists are exhibited at the A Hall of the Disseny Hub Barcelona until the 30th October 2016.