Worldwide Home & Personal Product Innovation Awards

Many products around us have existed in broadly recognizable forms for generations. However, that does not mean they cannot be improved.

Sometimes innovation means questioning a small frustration that everyone else has accepted. Sometimes it comes from a new material, a clever mechanism, a more ergonomic shape, or a manufacturing breakthrough. And sometimes an inventor recognizes a need for a product that has never existed before.

The DaVinci Awards® is open to physical products created for domestic or personal use. Kitchen and household goods, furniture, cleaning solutions, storage products, bathroom accessories, grooming equipment, personal care products, and other everyday consumer goods can all find a home here.

Entries may be simple or technically sophisticated, mass-market or specialist. What connects them is purposeful product development: a clear reason for the design choices made and a meaningful improvement for the person using the product.

The DaVinci Awards recognizes outstanding feats of human ingenuity, and product innovation. Entries are welcomed from individuals, teams, startups, or established enterprises based anywhere in the world. Areas of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

Show judges which assumptions you challenged during development and how those decisions shaped the finished product. Your breakthrough might lie in its mechanism, geometry, material selection, manufacturing process, ergonomics, or an unusually effective combination of simple ideas. Explain the development journey clearly enough that the ingenuity remains apparent even when the final solution looks effortless.

Describe the moment or recurring frustration that created the need for your product. Existing alternatives might be cumbersome, wasteful, uncomfortable, short-lived, expensive, difficult to maintain, or simply ineffective. Then show how your design changes that experience. Comparisons with conventional products, prototype testing, durability results, consumer feedback, reduced material consumption, or measurable improvements in usability can all help substantiate the advantage you have created.

Think about the product's value over its entire lifetime rather than only at the point of purchase. Could it serve different households or user groups, evolve into a broader product family, or influence how similar goods are designed? Manufacturing efficiency, material availability, repair, replacement parts, reuse, and end-of-life considerations may all strengthen the case for lasting impact. An enduring innovation should remain useful long after its initial novelty has disappeared.

Winners may make full use of The DaVinci Awards® hallmark of excellence, linked to your level of accreditation, on all relevant materials.

All winners also receive a DaVinci Awards® trophy, and substantial press opportunities working in partnership with our editorial team. Find out more.