If you haven’t seen it already, the results from this year’s Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) are online and we spent hours digging up our favorites from a hundred and thirty winners:
Name: UnBathroom, Gold, Student
Contact: Martin Smith, IDSA, Art Center College of Design, 626.396.2343, danielle.conte@artcenter.edu
Credit: William Hsu, Art Center College of Design
First up is the ingenious UnBathroom that took gold in the student category. Its a temporary toilet for use in emergency situations that is fully recyclable and biodegradable. Also, after the liners are used up, the base can be burned as fuel.
Name: Circular Printer: Gold, Design Explorations
Contact: Kang-il Chung, Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd, Korea +82.2.750.9472, ki.chung@samsung.com
Credit: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd, Korea and Seoul National University, Korea
Second, A circular portable mini concept printer that uses rotational, instead of linear, movement to reduce its size.
And finally -
Name: DEVO Underwear & Packaging: Gold, Design Explorations
Contact: Catherine O’Connor, fuseproject, 415.908.1492×20, catherine@fuseproject.com
Credit: fuseproject
Client: Devo, Inc
- The future of packaging -> Not only would you be able to tell if you’re picking up the right size with these packages since they’re shaped like their content but when you reach home, you could throw it in the wash, and the package will dissolve right off thanks to a material composed of dissolvable cornstarch and a small amount of detergent.
Also honorable mention should go to IDEO, Germany’s entry in the Design Explorations category where they focus on user experience instead of the product in their attempt to embed technology into everyday life. Results included ideas such as “bringing a light element to a door edge that allows the light to spill into the room as the door rotates and a radiator control knob that begins to illuminate in response to the radiator’s warmth make technology more accessible and less intrusive”.
Technology And History
Disposable toilets and circular printers are no match for King Arthur and giant bunnies.
Trackback by W6 — 7/20/2004 @ 10:25 am
Light / Print
Two delights via new blog-to-visit-very-often sensoryimpact.com An IDEA Award (Industrial Design Excellence Awards) winning design for a circular printer by Samsung. Brilliant!! Shove your vertical scanner aside in favor of this sexy portable printer w…
Trackback by slanted.org/backlog — 7/20/2004 @ 10:29 am
This Circular Printer is Great, MotherFuckers!
Comment by Krank — 7/20/2004 @ 11:53 am
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Comment by Anonymous — 7/20/2004 @ 7:09 pm
The Worlds Most Portable Circular Printer?
Recently the IDSA has awarded engineers at Samsung for creating the first ever circular printer. The unit, looks like a cupholder and is much more manageable to take with you or even install in a vehicle perhaps?
Trackback by [JLT INC] Rugged Computer News — 7/21/2004 @ 4:47 pm
Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2004 winners [2004 winners]
Get over and review the 130 winners of this year’s awards. Some of them superb. If you like design, beautiful objects and novelty, then this is a MUST VISIT. See also Sensory Impact’s 2004 favourites…
Trackback by Limbicnutrition Weblog — 7/23/2004 @ 10:15 am
Circular Concept Printer
A circular concept printer, that uses rotational, instead of linear, movement to reduce its size, was one of 130 winners of the 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Awards — via BoingBoing…
Trackback by Opinions of the Wolf — 8/31/2004 @ 9:23 pm
Distribution transformer radiators as unintended art
I have allways admired these distribution transformer radiators as a form of unintended art: They are intended to cool the enormous transformers at electricity sub-stations. The conductive elements of the transformer are bathed in oil. This oil is circ…
Trackback by Stodge — 4/13/2005 @ 9:44 am
Where are the flame-resistant tampons that everyone keeps talking about but ne’er a year passes without the real deal?
Comment by Funky Chicken — 5/8/2005 @ 8:14 pm
IDEA Awards
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Trackback by IDEA Awards — 6/9/2005 @ 1:54 am
[...] Denne cirkulære printer er i følge gizmodo.comnyeste idé fra Samsung. Den bruger roterende bevægelser i stedet for traditionelle lineære. Dog er det nu ikke sikkert at denne sjove kreation nogensinde når på gaden. Printeren har vundet en design IDEA designpris under kategorien: Design Explorations. Andre IDEA vindere kan ses hos sensoryimpact [...]
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[...] UnBathroom, a temporary toilet for emergencies. It’s fully recyclable and biodegradable. Plus, when the liner is used up, the base can be burned for fuel. Link (Via Sensory Impact) [...]
Pingback by Neatorama » Blog Archive » When You Gotta Go, the UnBathroom is There. — 9/1/2005 @ 1:23 pm
For whom it may concern
this is a very helpful website but we need things that we can relate more to our every day life or things that have a special shape.
Thank you
This is a nice website and informative
Comment by Rachel — 2/6/2006 @ 7:20 am