The winners of the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition—a celebration of year’s most innovative and exciting product and product concept designs and one of the world’s most prestigious and recognizable design competitions—exhibit a focus on sustainability, functionality and, in some cases, breathtaking aesthetics. Additionally, a recent trend toward…

Japanese designer Yusuke Hara of [Designkit], a design firm in Tokyo, has recently been awarded the Grand Prize in the Interior Design Category at the 2009 World Space Creators Awards for his project “scramble perpective”.

Stride, a new furniture solution designed to satisfy every possible need of a facility’s interior landscape, has earned Allsteel a Best of NeoCon Silver Award. The win was the highest honor awarded this year in the Furniture Systems category. It was announced during the international trade fair, which…

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) recently honored the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller with its 2009 Design for Recycling Award, at ceremonies held during ISRI’s 2009 Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas, Nev. Accepting the award on behalf…

The American Institute of Architecture Students and the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) announce the top six winners of the fourth student design competition. Sponsored by the ICPF and administered by the AIAS, the program will challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of issues related…

After a brisk three months of hard work, the winners of the Toyota iQ competition were announced in a celebration of young designers’ work at the Royal College of Art. Joint winners were Yusuf Muhammad, with his keyboard mounted mini screen to help slow typers, and Dominic Hargreaves, who is…

MUJI AWARD 03, with its theme of “Found MUJI”, was open to applicants for two months from May 26 to July 31, 2008. Some 1,986 entries from 35 countries were received. The organizers recently announced the winning entries that made it through very rigid judging process. Masaaki Kanai, President…

The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization, the organization involved in the comprehensive promotion of design, recently announced the results of the 2008 Good Design Awards. Applications for this year opened on May 8, and 3,023 entries were received. As a result of initial and second screenings, 1,067 items received Good…

New York, October 14, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.  The seven illustrious honorees, representing the fields of advertising, design, architecture, filmmaking, illustration, academia and photography, will be inducted at a black-tie benefit gala dinner on…

A new exhibition opens this week in San Francisco that profiles the work of today’s finest design talent. The 2008 Spark Design Awards put more than 360 entries under the microscope last month, with the best being selected by a jury of prestigious names in global design. The winners are…