Awards/Rankings

RYZE Award Season 2025: Diversity, impact, top performance

Date
17/12/2025

Seven international competitions, numerous award-winning projects and a total of 41 awards: The 2025 award season once again demonstrates the strength of our work in reporting, digital experience, design and campaign communication.

 

This year, we were represented at Red Dot, iNova, ARC Awards, German Design Award, ICMA and the FOX Awards (Efficiency. Finance & Efficiency) - competitions that each have their own focus and require us to fulfil a wide range of evaluation criteria.

Red Dot Award

The Red Dot Award is one of the most internationally visible design competitions - a prize that recognises outstanding design quality and shapes design trends. It honours corporate and digital projects that impress with a clear visual approach and translate complex content into a precise, contemporary design.

 

Winner in the category "Brand & Communication Design":

iNova Award

The iNova Awards focus on the digital experience. The competition honours websites and platforms that combine technical quality, intuitive UX and compelling storytelling. It is about projects that show how modern corporate communication should work on the web.

 

Winner of a silver award in the "Redesign/Relaunch" category:

German Design Award

The German Design Award honours projects that see design not as decoration but as a strategic tool. It recognises work that sharpens the brand profile, creates orientation and delivers design quality at the highest level. An award that makes innovative strength visible.

 

Winner in the category "Excellent Communication Design - Official Documents":

LOUT Chartbreaker Ranking 2025

RYZE lands at number 1 in the LOUT Chartbreaker Ranking with its many awards this year
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To the ranking

ARC Awards

The ARC Awards are regarded as a benchmark in international reporting and as a stage on which the best annual and sustainability reports compete with each other. Everything that characterises good reporting is judged: the stringency of the storyline, the courage of the design, the clarity of the structure. These awards are a clear signal of journalistic and design excellence.

 

Gold winner:

 

Winner Honours:

ICMA (International Creative Media Award)

The ICMA puts corporate media & design centre stage: magazines, reports, campaigns and editorial projects are tested for creative substance, editorial strength and visual quality. The award recognises concepts that get to the heart of communication objectives - with a good idea, good design and good craftsmanship.

 

Silver winner:

 

Bronze Winner:

FOX EFFICIENCY. FINANCE Awards

The FOX EFFICIENCY. FINANCE Award focuses on reporting and financial communication and honours formats that convey complex content clearly, creatively and accurately. The jury recognises annual and sustainability reports that provide orientation, reliably guide stakeholders through figures and developments and deliver real added value through design and structure. It is about communication that makes financial topics understandable and has an impact.

 

Winner FOX EFFICIENCY. FINANCE 2025:

 

Winner FOX MASTER OF EFFICIENCY. FINANCE 2025:

 

Winner FOX FINANCE VISUAL. 2025:

FOX EFFICIENCY. Awards

The FOX EFFICIENCY. Awards recognise communication solutions that prove their impact. What counts here is not how loud a campaign is, but how precisely it reaches its target groups. The awards recognise brand appearances, moving image formats and digital measures that are strategically well managed, perform measurably and clearly demonstrate their effectiveness: Impact is created through focus.

 

Winner FOX EFFICIENCY. 2025:

 

Winner FOX MASTER OF EFFICIENCY. 2025:

 

Winner FOX EFFICIENCY VISUAL. 2025:

Grateful for 2025 - ready for 2026

With a total of 41 awards, 2025 was another successful award year for us. The breadth of the award-winning projects shows how strongly we are positioned across all disciplines - from reporting, design and digital experience to campaigns and moving images. We are particularly pleased with the outstanding success of the integrated reports from Covestro and the Otto Group, which came out on top in several competitions and impressively demonstrate what is possible when storytelling, design and technology work together seamlessly.

 

Successes like these do not happen on their own. We would like to thank our customers, who make bold decisions, provide space for creative concepts and, with their trust, enable us to take projects to the next level time and time again. An equally big thank you goes to our entire RYZE team - for ideas, precision, passion and the ambition to make every project a little better than the last.

 

2025 has set the bar high. This is exactly where we are building on: with new platforms, strong reporting, innovative digital experiences and campaigns that make an impact. We look forward to a 2026 full of exciting projects, new challenges and joint successes.

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