Twenty-one US Designs Among the Top Nominees for INDEX: AWARD - The World’s Biggest Design Award
DENMARK, March 1, 2007 /INDEX: AWARD/ -- The top nominees for INDEX: AWARD have just been announced at a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. A total of 340 designs from all over the world were originally nominated for the award, and the international jury has now shortlisted 112 top nominees.
Representing all seven continents, the shortlist is truly global in scope, ranging from an Antarctic research station to a series of Italian door handles, with all of the entries sharing the objective of INDEX: Design to Improve Life.
Among the 20 US top nominees we find Lindenlab’s “Second Life” (designed by Philip Rosedale), along with MIT MediaLab and Nicolas Negroponte’s “100$ laptop”, which also was a finalist in 2005, but has since moved from concept to the stage of test machines.
All US top nominees for INDEX: AWARD
BODY
· Cybertech MAT Mechanical Advantage Tourniquet (Royce Rumsey, Ed Bannister &S.C. Chan of Cybertech Medical; and Steven Ewing and Ewing Design Team of Ewing Design Group).
· Insulet Omnipod Diabetes Management System (The Insulet Development Team and Continuum).
· Packaging and identity for Pangea Organics (Ian Groulx, Amy Leventhal, Marc Woollard, Soren DeOrlow, Joshua Onysko, Heather Lieder, Phil Stob).
· Type 1 Tools (Lisa Powell, Doug Powell).
· Whirlwind Wheelchair (Whirlwind Wheelchair International).
HOME
· METHOD home series (Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry & Karim Rashid).
· BASF HEAT Concepts (Nicolas Inchaurrondo, Stefan Post, BASF AG & Alexander Grots, Leif Huff, Miguel Cabra, Thomas Brisebras, Todd Pelman, Vicky Arndt, IDEO).
PLAY
· Escape from DIAB (YeonJung Kim), IHT (Archeworks).
· Second Life (Philip Rosedale).
· IHT (Archeworks).
WORK
· $100 Laptop (MIT MediaLab, Nicholas Negroponte).
· Hydro Wall (Virgina San Fratello).
· Neptunic C Suit (Jeremiah S. Sullivan).
COMMUNITY
· Congo River Malaria Healthcare System (Eric Burns, Alex Chou, Young Kim, Karen Han, Eren Hebert, Roel Punzalan).
· Global Footprint Network (Mathis Wackernagel & William Rees).
· Keep the Change (IDEO).
· PowerPLANTs and PowerSEEDS (PowerPLANTs: Nik Hafermaas (UeBERSEE INC.) with Jan Edler, Tim Edler, Christoph Wagner (realities:united); PowerSEEDs: Nik Hafermaas (UeBERSEE INC.)).
· Project Inkwell (IDEO, Martin Bone, Paul Bradley, Michael Chung, Gregory Germe).
· TESLA ROADSTER, Green Energy Strategy, Business Model & Web Site (Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors, Tesla CEO Martin Eberhard & Barney Hatt, principal stylist at Lotus Design Studios).
· The Life Cycle (George Yoo, Audrey Liu, Vivian Chou, Katherine Dill, Marco Widjojoatmodjo, Dwight Cushman, Rania Hoteit).
· Uniceffriend (Junggi SungMinkyung Kim).
Highlights include:
Nominated in the BODY category
“Cybertech MAT” (designed by Royce Rumsey, Ed Bannister and S.C. Chan (Cybertech Medical)) is a tourniquet that stops blood flow in less than 10 seconds and can be operated with one hand.
Loss of life and limb due to bleed-out has plagued victims of man-made violence and natural disasters. The MAT provides a unique, modern and safe-use improvement on the time-honored tourniquet to ensure fast, easy and effective saving of life and limb. The MAT is designed for universal application— in different medical emergency situations and at different user skill levels. Its intuitive design permits easy use in stressful situations with little to no training. The simple 1-hand application achieves life-saving occlusion in less than 10 seconds. Multiple, independent military medical tests have proven the MAT to be the fastest, most effective, easiest-to-use and user-preferred of all tourniquets and is the only one that meets all 12 criteria for 1-hand tourniquets. The MAT is standard equipment for law-enforcement, EMS, and the military throughout the world.
http://www.ewingdesigngroup.com and http://www.matourniquet.com
Nominated in the Home Category
“Method” Home Series (designed by Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry and Karim Rashid) is a safe, efficient and sustainable line of cleaning materials.
All “Method” products are naturally derived, biodegradable, and scented with essential oils such as French lavender, magnolia, and pink grapefruit. Besides the sustainability features, the packaging design by Karim Rashid and others offers aesthetic value to peoples’ homes in an area where aesthetics are scarce. It works and is needed: Inc. Magazine has added “Method” to the 25th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country.
http://www.methodhome.com
Nominated in the WORK category
“Neptunic C Suit” (designed by Jeremiah S. Sullivan) protects divers from shark bite.
On a daily basis, around the world, the Neptunic C Suit prevents injury to scientific divers and others who work with dangerous sharks in the open sea. The Sharksuit Technology utilized in the Neptunic C Suit has been instrumental in creating a safer environment to study and interact with marine predators. This has resulted in the emergence of a global shark diving industry, which educates thousands of people annually, through interaction, on the vital role sharks play in the health of the marine ecosystem. The resulting paradigm shift in thinking is responsible for growing numbers of marine conservation efforts to end destructive and disastrously exploitive practices like shark finning, and reckless overfishing.
http://www.neptunic.com
Nominated in the PLAY category
“Escape from DIAB” (designed by YeonJung Kim) is a video game promoting healthy eating and exercise.
The project is a production of Archimage in collaboration with the Children’s Nutritional Research Center of Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine. The EscapefromDiab.com site was created to introduce the project to kids, parents, and members of the media interested in healthy lifestyles for young people. It uses a gaming format to capture and retain children's attention and interest as necessary building blocks for behavioral change. Players interact with other characters, make decisions, and learn how their own actions affect the characters in the game as they try to escape a world of endless junk food and laziness. The tentative release date for the videogame is 2008.
http://www.escapefromdiab.com
Nominated in the COMMUNITY category
“Global Footprint Network” (designed by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees) is a powerful way to promote sustainability.
This design represents a powerful tool to promote sustainability - Ecological Footprint - while the business model design of Global Footprint Network supports use of this standard.
Ecological Footprint is a standard for measuring and comparing resource consumption and it promotes sustainability to improve the lives of all people on the planet.
The Ecological Footprint serves as a powerful lever for fostering sustainability by providing a common language and a clearly defined and scientifically valid way of measuring human demand on a planet with limited resources.
http://www.footprintnetwork.org
All submitted nominations and the 112 top nominees can be viewed at www.indexaward.dk.
INDEX: AWARD
INDEX: AWARD is the biggest design award in the world. Every second year, five awards are presented in the categories Body, Home, Work, Play and Community. Each award is worth €100 000.
The winning entries represent the finest Design to Improve Life as selected by the international INDEX: Jury on the basis of nominations made by 188 of the world’s leading professional design institutions.
Because of the INDEX: focus on Design to Improve Life, the nominated designs will be evaluated not only in terms of form like most traditional design, but also specifically in respect of the impact and context of the design.
The five awards will be presented at an official ceremony at Copenhagen City Hall on August 24, 2007.
For a full description of INDEX: Design Thinking, see www.indexaward.dk or please contact Head of Press Helena Lowskij at .
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