Lexus announces the 12 winners of the 2014 lexus design award
ALL PROJECTS TO BE DISPLAYED AT CIRCOLO FILOLOGICO MILANESE DURING MILAN DESIGN WEEK
Lexus announces the selection of 12 winners for the second Lexus Design Award, an international design competition that was launched on August 1st, 2013.
1,157 submissions were received during the application period, which ended on October 15, 2013. From that group, 12 winners have been selected after careful consideration by six judges.
Among the winners, two will receive the unique opportunity to create a prototype of their project, with the help of two renowned designers: the game designer Robin Hunicke and architect Arthur Huang. These two designers have personally selected the two winners they will mentor, based on uniqueness, originality, relevance to the 'Curiosity' theme and the possibility of making a prototype.
Robin Hunicke selected "Iris", from the German Sebastian Scherer, while Arthur Huang will be following up "Macian" by James Fox from UK. The winners 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 9 to 13, 2014.
An award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April 8 evening at Circolo Filologico Milanese where each winner will receive from Lexus International the 2014 Lexus Design Award trophy.
The winners are (in alphabetical order of project title):
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DESIGNER
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COUNTRY
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"Crane" A book library that creates a game of balance. |
Magental (Ronen Bavly and Ornit Arron) |
Israel |
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"DICECOVER" A playful tool that invites people to learn more about our planet. |
Mansour Ourasanah |
USA |
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"E-Wheel" An integrated electric wheel bases on all in one idea. |
Phuoc Nguyen |
Vietnam |
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"Flynote" 150 years of musical evolution in just one product. |
alDith (Aldo De Carlo-Italy and Judith Ccasa Caceres-Peru) |
Italy |
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"Game of Space" The space of ambiguity of time-participating process. |
IAO-architecture ( Nan Lei and Xinyi Wang) |
China |
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"Iris" (mentored by Robin Hunicke) Hand-blown glass lamp with iridescent shimmering coating. |
Sebastian Scherer |
Germany |
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"JoyCarpet" An interactive carpet that helps baby's development. |
Meng-Ling Yang |
Taiwan |
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"Macian" (mentored by Arthur Huang) A kit designed to aid the experience and curiosity of den building. |
James Fox |
UK |
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"Ooho!" A water ball. Organic membrane packing for liquids. |
Skipping Rocks Lab (Rodrigo García González-Spain, Pierre Pasalier-France and Guillaume Couche-France) |
Spain / France |
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"PAUSE" A timepiece that redefines the perception of time telling |
Stuti and Rajeev (Stuti Mazumdar and Rajeev Dave) |
India |
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"PIXIMOT" An interactive display formed from rotating wooden cubes. |
MAMIKIM & Co. (Mami Kim and Joe Hardy) |
UK |
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"Sky Lighthouse" Lighting object with "colour of the sky'' appeared from natural phenomena. |
Yoshiki Matsuyama |
Japan |
The Lexus Design Award is an international competition that targets next generation innovators from around the world. It represents an opportunity for designers 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-int.com
Lexus Design Amazing Milan 2014 Exhibition
Address: Circolo Filologico Milanese, Via Clerici 10, 20121 Milan — Brera District
Dates: Press preview: April 8
Public days: April 9 till 13
Website: http://www.lexus-int.com/
About 2014 Lexus Design Award
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Judging criteria |
• Depth of understanding of the design concepts for the competition and a unique interpretation of those concepts. • Uniqueness of perspective and originality of solutions proposed under the theme. |
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Judges |
Paola Antonelli, Aric Chen, Tokuo Fukuichi, Toyo Ito, Birgit Lohmann, Alice Rawsthorn |
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Mentors |
Arthur Huang, Robin Hunicke |
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Prizes/benefits |
• Twelve entries will win awards. The creators of the awarded works will be invited to Milan Design Week 2014. • Two entries from the twelve winners will receive up to five million yen each (circa 38,000€) to cover prototype production costs. The designers of the two entries will create prototypes of their award winning designs between February and March 2014 through sessions with two assigned mentors. • The two prototypes and also panel displays of the other ten winning entries will be exhibited at Lexus Design Amazing 2014 in Milan (a Lexus exhibition space) during Milan Design Week from April 9 to 13, 2014 |
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Organizer |
Lexus International |
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In cooperation with |
designboom DESIGN ASSOCIATION NPO |
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Theme |
Curiosity |
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For more information |
About Lexus
With the vision of Progressive Luxury, Lexus has been pursuing and presenting values different from those of conventional luxury makes. Lexus has been striving not only to create a more luxurious experience through automobiles, but also, through such technological advancements as the Lexus Hybrid Drive, to contribute to efforts to solve numerous issues that have surfaced in the modern world.
Lexus believes that design for this competition goes beyond mastery of form and is a process in problem solving and an effort to propose solutions to shape a better society and future. Lexus therefore welcomes a wide variety of innovative ideas to overcome challenges.