30 products, which stand out because of their combination of innovative materials, successful design and intelligent functionality, will receive the Design Plus Award at the forthcoming Material Vision in Frankfurt am Main from 22 to 23 November.
The eminent jury were able to make their choice from a total of 175 submissions from 20 countries. The prize winners come from Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, the Netherlands, Sweden and Belgium. Messe Frankfurt's Design Plus Award will be conferred for the second time at Material Vision.
Responsibility for running the competition lay once again in the hands of the German De-sign Council. The prizes will be presented during Material Vision on 22 November at 5 p.m. in the Forum Messe Frankfurt.
All the winning products can be viewed in the Special Design Plus Area at Material Vision. The catalogue contains pictures and product information, as well as details of manufacturers and designers.
Dr. Michael Peters, Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt says," For the last twenty years, we have presented the Design Plus Award at various trade fairs and in that time it has become one of leading design competitions in Germany.
For both manufacturers and designers, the award is an excellent marketing instrument; for the consumer, the Design Plus mark gives them a point of reference in the bewildering array of products available."
Andrej Kupetz, General Manager and Technical Director of the German Design Council says, "A plethora of materials innovations are being developed in the research departments of industry, small to medium enterprises, in universities and in start-up businesses.
The Design Plus award gives all these players the chance to present their innovative products and practical applications to the trade fair public at Material Vision and also to show them to a wider public."
Design quality, choice of materials, functionality, and technical and ecological quality, as well as the overall concept were the criteria which the interdisciplinary jury of experts used to judge the entries.
The jurors were: - Frederik Flötotto, General Manager, elmarflötotto GmbH, Gütersloh - Bernd Hollin, Hollin+Radoske Architects, Frankfurt am Main - Michael Kindler, metz und kindler produktdesign, Darmstadt - Nicola Stattmann, Büro Nicola Stattmann, Frankfurt am Main - Lutz Dietzold, Marketing Director, German Design Council, Frankfurt am Main
Among the 30 prize-winning products is, for example, THE KETTLE (Heat Concepts, IDEO), a kettle in the form of a glass carafe which, thanks to the material it is made from, Ultrason, no longer needs a handle.
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