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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, November 7, 2002. . . . The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design announces the winners of the Museum's annual GOOD DESIGN™ Awards for 2002 won by over 100 of the world's most prestigious industrial design firms and manufacturers in over 20 countries. The Award publicly acknowledges and elevates the best and finest new design and design innovation for products and graphics designed and manufactured between 2000 and 2002.
Founded in 1950, GOOD DESIGN is the world's oldest and most celebrated awards program that bestows international recognition upon designers and manufacturers for advancing new and innovative product concepts and originality and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered standard product and consumer design.
This year, The GOOD DESIGN Awards were judged in two parts by a jury specializing in graphic arts in Reykjavik, Iceland, and by a prestigious jury of design professionals in New York City, USA .
Designers and manufacturers from all over the world won this year's competition. The GOOD DESIGN Show—the annual exhibition of the Awards—is scheduled to open April 1, 2003 at The Chicago Athenaeum.
The Awards this year were for the following categories: electronics, sports equipment, children's products, furniture, office products, industrial equipment, medical equipment, fabric/textiles, automotive/transportation, urban furniture/architecture, tabletop, kitchen and bath, household appliances, household products, lighting, hardware/tools, personal products, and graphics and packaging—sure to influence the environments and the ways in which we live, work, and play around the world and in the new millennium.
For the 2002 edition of GOOD DESIGN, The Chicago Athenaeum received hundreds of applications from 40 countries contributing to the international importance of the historic GOOD DESIGN Award and exhibition. Over 180 products and 14 graphic designs were selected by two distinguished juries of recognized architects, designers, and authorities in the design world for recent designs worthy of the Museum’s GOOD DESIGN Award, attesting to the design energy, vitality, and current innovation in global design today.
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The GOOD DESIGN Jury (Part II) was held in New York City and was presided over by a panel of distinguished design professionals and academics: George Beylerian, President of Material Connexion; Jhane Barnes, President of Jhane Barnes, Inc.; Tony Whitfield, Professor of Design, Parsons School of Design; and Antonio Pavan, Executive Vice President of Alessi USA.
The Museum’s historic GOOD DESIGN program originated in Chicago in 1950 and was organized by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., former curator of the Museum of Modern Art. Originally the program introduced state-of-the-art, modern products into the office and the home marketplace throughout the post-World War II decade. The program featured products and installations by some of America’s pioneers of modern design including: Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Russel Wright, and Florence Knoll, George Nelson—the most prominent design minds in America in the 1950s who blazoned a new international direction in design.
Among the international awarded manufacturers for 2002 are: RADO Watch Company, Cuisinart, Tupperware, Electrolux Zanussi Spa, Polaroid Corporation, Gilette Oral-B, 3M, Michael Graves for Target, Britain's Royal Mail, Japan Airlines, IBM Corporation, OXO International, Hewlett-Packard Company, Dell Computer Corporation, Skil Bosch Power Tools, Apple Computer, Inc., Hunter Douglas, Inc., Steelcase, Inc., Nike, Buell Motorcycle Company, Brookstone, Inc., Motorola, Eastman Kodak Company, Sunbeam Corporation, and Whirlpool Corporation.
While U.S. designers and manufacturers continued to sweep up GOOD DESIGN Awards for electronics with 103 superb new designs for computers, audio equipment, tools, medical equipment, and housewares, German designers and manufacturers won 22 Awards for automobiles, housewares, electronics, furniture and textiles. Italian designers and manufacturers mostly from the appliance and furniture industries won a total of 11 Awards with designers from Great Britain and Austria winning 4 Awards each. Belgium and Switzerland won 3 Awards each, for appliances, lighting, watches, and housewares. Canada, Sweden, France, Thailand, and Spain won 2 Awards each. GOOD DESIGN Awards were also given to designers and industry leaders from Finland, Russia, Australia, Turkey, China, Slovenia, Japan, The Netherlands, and Korea for 2002. The best of the best worldwide.
The Jury for GOOD DESIGN based their decisions on aesthetic criteria stated in the original 1950 Program—criteria which measures innovation, form, materials, construction, concept, function and utility. Product appearance and aesthetic appeal is also considered. Both the 1950s and the competitions of the new millennium encourage manufacturers and designers to improve their design standards and quality. The Museum allows and encourages winning designers and manufacturers to use the GOOD DESIGN logo through a special license, the design by the late Chicago industrial designer, Mort Goldsholl in 1950, on product packaging, marketing, and promotions—just as it was used in during the 1950s.
“GOOD DESIGN,” states Ioannis Karalias, Museum Vice President, Director of Design, The Chicago Athenaeum, “is truly an incomparable design presentation, representing hundreds of manufacturers and clients working with hundreds of designers from so many countries. The exhibition works on many levels—to stimulate designers; encourage manufacturers and inform the public about the merits of GOOD DESIGN."
“What is most significant about the Museum's GOOD DESIGN Show,” states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, President and Director of The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, “is that it gives visitors to the Museum the single opportunity to see the latest, most important international designs for consumer products that are currently in the market or about to be launched and introduced. All products selected as GOOD DESIGN by the Museum and its jury are the quintessence of today’s design innovation.”
GOOD DESIGN is organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design—one of the Chicago area's most prestigious cultural institutions and the only museum of architecture and design in the United States.
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A complete list of Award winning GOOD DESIGN products is included on this Web site. For more information or photographs not listed on this site, contact Julie Reichert-Marton at 847/895-3950, or Fax 847/895-3951. The Chicago Athenaeum is now accepting applications for the GOOD DESIGN AWARDS competition. Look for the FAX IN application. |
