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Social Responsibility Sense of Design Winner in IDEAs 2008

Posted by andy Labels:

Recently on July 2008, juries have decided and announced IDEAs design winners of the year. This International level event that sponsored by BusinessWeek magazines and Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) able to catch attention for many designer over the world. BusinessWeek was reporting that USA, several Europe country, Asia that represented by Japan, China, Korea and for the first time, new comer from Latin America, Brazil being a part of the competition.

This event is divided into 3 categorized participant, they are from corporations, design firms and schools. For corporations, Apple received the most gold awards through their 3 design models. In design firms categorized, Fuse Project and Rockwell Group awarded with 2 golds, and both of Samsung Design Membership (SADI) and Hanyang University Royal of Art won a single gold award. According to data of IDSA site, out of total 1517 entries, 35 were awarded Gold awards, 77 received Silver awards and 99 for Bronze awards. Also, for the first time, 389 finalists were named in addition to the winner for this year.

In other side, juries also announced favorite winners or the most winning entries whose not only have good value in esthetically and functional design, but also a strong sense of social responsibility. There's four designs have been chosen, they are :

Balance Sport Wheelchair

Award : Gold - Medical & Scientific - Concepts
Designed by Eric Larson, Ricky Biddle, Ben Shao, Austin Cliffe (US)

Sport wheelchair designed for physically challenged athletes with hands free breaking and turning system to facilitate when playing basketball.




The One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

Award : 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze - Computer Equipment
Client: One Laptop Per Child (US)
Designed by Fuseproject (US)

The non profit OLPC was designed to give contribution in education field. Bring learning, communication and communication to children in developing country.

Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election

Award : Gold - Packaging & Graphics
Client: AIGA (US)
Designed by Studio/lab (US)

A useful book for U.S. States election as the basis for national guidelines for ballot design and polling place signs.

Chulha low-smoke biomass stove

Award : Bronze - Ecodesign
Client: Royal Philips Electronics (Netherlands)
Designed by Philips Design (Netherlands)

A stove was designed as solution of air pollution case in rural India that causing respiratory diseases. This is a biomass fuel stove with low smoke, high efficiency and faster the cooking time

Valuable Designs - In my opinion :
After read about this article and concerned to several design picture and profile, I'm so salute for all participants whose able to create amazing objects. Their concepts aren't thought yet by somebody else. That all unique and surely original works. But, a judging criteria that so impress to me is "strong sense of social responsibility". Four kind of designs have decided as the winners because their creative innovation give good impact to major human life. Good job for all designers and good works for IDEAs committees.



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