Compasso d'Oro 2026: 20 Winners by Category
On 22 May 2026, the 29th Compasso d’Oro jury — chaired by Jasper Morrison under ADI president Luciano Galimberti — handed Italy’s design Oscar to 20 projects at the ADI Design Museum in Milan. The compasso d’oro 2026 winners include Philippe Malouin’s Bilboquet table lamp for Flos and Snøhetta’s Array modular sofa for MDF Italia, while Patrizia Moroso of Moroso took the products career award alongside three more lifetime laurels — Alberto Meda and Paola Lenti for design, Aldo Colonetti for research. Thirty-eight honourable mentions and three long-selling products round out a roll call that this year reads less like a national survey and more like a refereed argument about what Italian industrial design currently rewards: mass-market objects with a clear authorial signature, infrastructure and mobility projects with measurable social weight, and historical research that pays its rent. ...