Lexus announces 12 winners of the first lexus design award 2013
ALL PROJECTS TO BE DISPLAYED AT THE MUSEO DELLA PERMANENTE DURING MILAN DESIGN WEEK
The Jury has completed the selection of winners of the first Lexus Design Award, from the 1,243 received projects. Due to the high quality level of submitted entries, 12 works have been recognised in total, instead of ten as initially planned.
The winners are (in alphabetical order of project title):
| Title | Designer Name | Country |
| Bscooter | Goula / Figuera (Álvaro Fernández-Goula and Pablo Figuera) | Spain |
| Calm Kayak | Mani Zamani | Iran |
| FLY | Dear Cai (Dong Bo Chai and Zong Han Tsai) | Taiwan |
| INAHO | Tangent (Hideki Yoshimoto and Yoshinaka Ono) | Japan |
| KLAVA lamp | Rudy Davi | Italy |
| Making Porcelain With A ORIGAMI | Hitomi Igarashi | Japan |
| Natural Motion for Natural Music | Moonchul Kim | Korea |
| Slides Bridge | Zhufei (Zhu Fei and Zhu Tian Hui) | China |
| The drinking fountain | ATELIER OPA (Yuki Sugihara, Toshihiko Suzuki and Munetaka Ishikawa) | Japan |
| Tumbleweed Desert | Shlomi Mir | Israel |
| weaving a home | Abeer Seikaly | Canada/Jordan |
| World Clock | Masafumi Ishikawa | Japan
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Among the winners, two designers will receive the opportunity to create a prototype of their project, with the help of two renowned designers, product designer Sam Hecht and architect Junya Ishigami. These two mentors have personally selected the two designers they will work with, based on uniqueness, originality, relevance to the 'Motion' theme and the possibility of making a prototype. Sam Hecht selected "INAHO", from Hideki Yoshimoto and Yoshinaka Ono, while Junya Ishigami will be following up "Making Porcelain With A ORIGAMI" by Hitomi Igarashi. The designers will cooperate with their mentors through regular creative sessions. Their prototypes will be displayed together with the other ten winning entries in the Lexus space at the Milan Design Week from April 10 to 14, 2013.An award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April 9 at 19.00 at Museo della Permanente where each winner will receive from Lexus International the first-ever Lexus Design Award trophy.The Lexus Design Award is an international competition that targets next generation innovators around the world. It represents an opportunity for designers around the globe to gain exposure at the Milan Design Week, one of the world's leading design events. Through this initiative, Lexus hopes to nurture and support creators and enrich our world as a whole.
More details can be found on the Lexus Global website (http://www.lexus-global.com ).
Lexus Design Amazing — 2013 MilanAddress: Dates: Press preview: April 9, 15.00-17.00Public days: April 10 till 14, from 11.00 — 20.00Exhibited works: Hall 1: Lexus Design conceptHall 2: "- amazing flow-" installation by Toyo Ito and Akihisa HirataHall 3: Lexus Design Award — display of the 12 winning projectsWebsite:www.lexus-global.comAbout the Lexus Design Award
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Award ceremony |
On April,9 at 19.00 at Museo della Permanente (Brera Area) |
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Applications |
Closed since December 31, 2012 |
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Theme |
Motion |
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Eligibility |
The contest opened to all nationalities, either individual or group. |
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Judging criteria |
· Depth understanding of the competition theme and the interpretation of it· Uniqueness of perspective and originality of solutions |
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Judges |
· Jaime Hayon: Designer· Toyo Ito: Architect· Birgit Lohmann: Chief Editor, Designboom· Paola Antonelli: Curator· Aric Chen: Curator· Kiyotaka Ise: President of Lexus International |
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Mentors |
· Sam Hecht: Product Designer· Junya Ishigami: Architect |
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Prizes/benefits |
· 12 winners work on display at the Milan Design Week, Lexus exhibit halls· Two entries from the ten winners will receive up to five million yen (48,000€) each to cover prototype and production costs. The designers of the two entries will create prototypes of their award winning designs through sessions with two assigned mentors between February and March 2013. |
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Organizer |
Lexus International |
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In cooperation with |
designboom and DESIGN ASSOCIATION NPO |
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