GOOD DESIGN AWARDS 2017, USA, Winner
THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM ANNOUNCES THE BEST CONSUMER DESIGN PRODUCTS AND GRAPHICS FOR 2017
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies are pleased to announce that THE ONLY CLOCK by Vadim Kibardin won the oldest and the most prestigious Global Awards Program for Design Excellence and Design Innovation GOOD DESIGN Award in HOUSEHOLD Category.
“This year’s historic 67th Good Design program," states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President, The Chicago Athenaeum, “recognizes the work of thousands of designers and manufacturers worldwide who have successfully undertaken the design challenge to produce the best and most outstanding design products across the globe to our large and expanding global consumers."
“Good Design represents the world’s critical mass of the design and manufacturing industry representing the best consumer design ranging from the ‘spoon to the city’.”
“Since 1950, Good Design has become an internationally acknowledged benchmark and symbol of outstanding design that serves as a beacon for design-interested audiences in our global economies.”
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (December 10, 2017) — GOOD DESIGN® is the world’s most prestigious, recognized, and oldest Design Awards program organized annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
GOOD DESIGN covers new consumer products, graphics, and packaging designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America.
The trademarked award program was founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects: Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray, Eames and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. The distinctive black dot-shaped logo was designed the same year by the late Chicago graphic designer, Mort Goldsholl in 1950.
Hundreds of thousands of leading winning manufacturers and companies print the Good Design logo for awarded products on their packaging, marketing information, advertising, websites, corporate information, posters, billboards, and branding to the widest international consumer audience.
Entries for design and innovation, sustainability, creativity, branding, ecologically responsible design, human factors, materials, technology, graphic arts, packaging, and universal design are submitted annually by various industrial design and graphic design firms working for the Fortune 500 companies.
For 2017, over 900 new products and graphic designs were selected from over 48 countries for new electronics, transportation, medical equipment, protective equipment, energy systems, robotics and bionics, building products/ materials, furniture, textiles, industrial, environments, hardware, bath and accessories, kitchen/appliances, floor and wallcovering, tabletop, household products, personal, office products, transportation, children’s products, sports and recreation, lighting, tools, and graphics, branding, and packaging from Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
All winning products and graphics for 2017 can be viewed at www.good-designawards.com or www.chi-athenaeum.org.
All products and graphics are also published in the Good Design Yearbook for 2016-2017 and is available through Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.