The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO) hosts an annual event to showcase well-designed products. At the Good Design Expo this year, over 2000 products under consideration for the Good Design Awards were shown to the public. And the Pink Tentacle were in attendance to snap photos of the eye-catching designs.

This hourglass-shaped freshness label for meat products measures the amount of ammonia in the container and will change colour to indicate the meat has gone bad.

These beautiful lamp shades from Sony stores energy from sunlight during the day and use it to power the lamp at night.

These cute flash drives can be used as magnetic stickers when not slotted into the USB slot of your computer.

See more designs at Pink Tentacle. We’ll keep you updated with the winners when 1) we learn enough Japanese to navigate the Good Design Awards site or 2) the English part of the site gets updated.