id design award 2009 International competition

Recap

id Design Award 2009

A competition like no other before, the id Design Award 2009 brought together expert judges, manufacturers and retailers from across a wide range of fields in a contest that boasted the highest cash prize ever. This journey to discover the brightest new stars on the design horizon began in October 2008 with the following three basic steppingstones that guided us every step of the way.

Creative Freedom: giving designers the room needed to express themselves and bring new ideas to light.
Open Competition: connecting today’s brightest creators with a host of manufacturers and others from across the design spectrum.
Conceptualization to commercialization: leveraging the power of the idsite network to put the idea in the designer’s head into the consumers’ hands.

On the Awards

Although this was our fist competition, we feel that we hit the ground running. We were flooded with more than 1000 entries from a wonderful mix of designers. The Awards created an amazing opportunity that brought some of our most creative minds together and new ideas to light.

While the entries all provided a unique and interesting interpretation on the theme, a careful review by our panel of judges found that only a couple of the entries adequately fulfilled the criteria of "creating a new lifestyle" and "focusing on minimizing our environmental footprint." Few of the design proposals offered any real solution to the problems we face as a society today and for that reason, we are only able to declare one winner who has been given the “Award for Excellence.”

While this decision may seem somewhat disappointing, we saw great potential in all of the entries and look forward to the next competition with high hopes. As an expression of our utmost admiration for all the creators who worked so hard on their designs, we decided to recognize their achievements with a special “Jury's encouragement award.”

Through id Design Award 2009

In leaving the themes broad, we managed to gather a unique variety of work from across many different categories. Home electronics and ecology were recurring themes that ran through many of the works, including those that won awards. We extend our sincere congratulations to the handful of award-winners whose stellar work stood out from a wide field of entries.

The id Design Award 2009 does not end here with the announcement of the winners. We now move on to the next stage of commercial production and marketing as we connect creators with manufacturers and retailers with an eye to putting innovative ideas form the designers’ minds into the hands of consumers.

The next awards competition is already in the works and we are busy hammering out the themes and criteria for what will no doubt be an even bigger and better contest approximately two years from now.

Lastly,we would like to send our upmost appreciation for all participants in the id Design award 2009.
We wish for your continuous support to our future activities.

IDEA INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.

Photo scenes of jury’s examination

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