Thursday, 24 November 2016

Red Dot Design Award

  • The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.
  • There are prize categories for product design, design agencies and design concepts.
  • Winning products are presented in the Red Dot Design Museum on the premises of the historical Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen.
  • The Red Dot Design Award had more than 15,500 submissions from 70 countries in 2014.


Categories

Product Design and Design team
  • This is the oldest of the three awards.
  • Product Design had been known as Design Innovation until 2000. The competition is open to several fields of manufacturing, including furniture, home appliances, machines, cars and tools.
  • The prize winners include companies such as Siemens in 1995, Apple in 2001, BMW in 2007, the Bose Design Center in 2008, Porsche in 2012, Lenovo in 2013, Veryday in 2014, Bosch Home Appliances in 2015 and Ferrari in 2016.



Communication Design
  • Since 1993, Communication Design is awarded for achievements in the fields of corporate design, advertising, interactive media or sound design.
  • Since 2008, the "Red Dot:  Agency of the Year" award has been given to a design agency that has affected the whole branch due to their design achievements.




Design Concept
  • In 2005, Red Dot established the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore and also an award for design innovations and design concepts.
  • The “Red Dot Award:  Design Concept” centers on design concepts, ideas and visions.
  • The competition focuses on young, up-and-coming creative talents, designers and design companies around the world.
  • Flint is a winner of the Red Dot Design Award for Design Concept 2015.


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