Taiwan Wins 26 Awards in the 2011 JIDPO Good Design Award
2012/02/17 | By Quincy LiangThe Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JIDPO) recently announced the results of its 2011 Good Design Award (or G-Mark 2011) that happened in November. Taiwan won 26 G-Mark awards, less only than South Korea's 39 and Thailand's 61.
Japan's only comprehensive design promotion organization, JDP received 3,162 applications worldwide in 2011. After each applicant had been screened twice, 1,112 entries from 649 companies received the Good Design Award, or the “G-Mark.” Out of all these award winners, one entry received the Grand Award, twelve entries received the Gold Award, five entries received the Sustainable Design Award, eight entries received the Small and Medium Enterprises Award, one entry received the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award, and eighteen entries received the Long Life Design Award.
Good Design Award 2011 Winners from overseas | |
Australia | 1 |
Brazil | 3 |
China | 1 |
Denmark | 1 |
France | 2 |
Germany | 7 |
Hong Kong | 1 |
Italy | 1 |
Korea | 39 |
Liechtenstein | 1 |
Slovenia | 1 |
Spain | 3 |
Sweden | 2 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Taiwan | 26 |
Thailand | 61 |
U.S.A. | 12 |
Total | 163 |
Source: JDP, Nov. 2011 | |
The following award winners of the 2011 Good Design Award include the sole recipient of the Grand Prize Award and the twelve recipients of the Gold Award:
During the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan, transportation was improved through the car navigational system of the Traffic Record Map service (Internavi is the name of this information service of Honda's car navigational system).
Company: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Designer: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
With data collected from cars using its car navigational system, Honda released actual traffic and congestion data for the areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, that improved traffic flow in those parts of eastern Japan.
In 2003 Honda launched "Internavi," a two-way navigational system that collects data from the trips of customers to determine the best route to a destination. When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami occurred, the navigational data started to help in the rescue efforts as soon as the following day, with volunteer groups, rescue teams, and others bound for the affected areas using this publicly available data. And Honda ensured the consistency of the data, releasing updates from the previous 24 hours every morning at ten, which helped those en route. After the earthquake and tsunami, other automobile manufacturers joined in this mutual effort by providing their own data. Who could have predicted that this two-way car navigational system would be employed during the disaster? In building on this experience, we hope that the same level of assistance can be offered to people around the world in disaster areas. This entry received much praise from judges who were impressed both with the company's years of efforts in its development and with its contributions to the rescue efforts following the earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.
Company : Panasonic Corporation
Designer : Panasonic Corporation
This LED bulb reproduces filament-like light distribution in all directions. The bulb is bright, high-energy saving, has a long life, and allows replacement of incandescent bulbs, which have been replaced by other types of electric lights around the world such as LED bulbs. LED bulbs have a hue similar to filament-based bulbs, are low in energy consumption, and the light produced by an LED bulb has a warm richness and provides a familiar light source. An essential aspect of developing bulbs is to focus on the psychological dimensions of lighting.
Company: LIXIL Corporation
Designer: LIXIL Corporation
Sphiano creates both an individual bathroom environment and an open and comfortable space. Foam Spa is the core product that provides a new bathing style.
Company: Sharp Corporation
Designer: Sharp Corporation
This Module Panel is a flameless laminated glass structure that improves power generation through achieving thinness and reducing dirt accumulation. As principal energy resources, fossil and nuclear fuels are finite, and in crisis situations such as earthquake disasters severe nuclear power plant problems can occur. We believe that our design is needed to protect the environment in the future.
Company: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Designer: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
In this design the panel itself is transformed into the exterior, creating an expression of color using the refraction of light based on double injection molding.
The design had a very positive effect on judges on the expo floor, causing them to stop in their tracks. With its dominating presence, the design differs significantly from televisions that have been manufactured to date. This 3D Smart LED TV executes complex operations effortlessly, and none of the processing operations in the inner part of the frame are unnecessary.
Company: NejiLaw Inc.
Designer: NejiLaw Inc.
Designed to accept both right and left-hand nuts, this non-spiral, bolt-shaping screw helps to achieve an ideal, repeated-use nut-bolt fastening system in which loosening does not occur. Screws are used in such essential aspects of modern life as vehicles, aircrafts, bridges, and highways. With conventional screws, loosening happens through friction, which requires periodic checking and/or retightening and creates an enormous social burden in terms of cost, effort, and public risk. Our non-loosening screws are designed to eliminate this social burden, thus contributing to creating a more sustainable society.
Company: Sysmex Corporation
Designer: Sysmex Corporation
As a result of the product development process, the focus of the in vitro diagnostic system has become improving the healthcare testing environment through better product design concept and usability. The new product design concept improves customer interaction with instruments, software user interfaces, reagents, and consumables. Through optimizing the productivity of medical laboratory technologists, the system enables healthcare testing organizations to generate and deliver accurate medical results quickly.
Company: GE Healthcare Japan Corporation
Designer: GE Healthcare Japan Corporation
This is a new type of pocket-sized ultrasound device for providing real-time black and white anatomic and color-coded blood flow images anywhere anytime. Thanks to the use of state-of-the-art technology, a user can produce an image that, despite its small size and low power consumption, is of excellent quality. The small size of the device potentially improves the mileage involved in transporting the product and its simple design requires the minimum amount of cleaning materials.
Company: 3M Health Care Ltd.
Designer: 3M Health Care Ltd.
The 3M Littmann Electronic Stethoscope has improved sound amplification and ambient noise reduction technology, including recording and wireless transmitting functions. Developed for an aging society, this product makes possible support telemedicine and home-visit nursing care. Twelve recording tracks and a wireless connection to personal computers allows sharing of recorded sound data with other doctors who are not at the same location. Through the use of both the Internet and software, this product also has the potential for providing real-time tele-auscultation.
Company: Toshiba Corporation + National Institute of Radiological Sciences + Nihon Sekkei, Inc.
Designer: Toshiba Corporation + National Institute of Radiological Sciences + Nihon Sekkei, Inc.
In an effort to promote greater use of Japan's world-leading heavy-particle radiotherapy technology, this service provides both a high level of safety and a caring treatment environment. It is the outcome of successful results in particle beam cancer treatment and represents a new total service system that offers installation, equipment operations, treatment know-how, and medical services. The service will become a model for the development of such services abroad.
Company: Yamada Shadowless Lamp Co. Ltd.
Designer: Yamada Shadowless Lamp Co. Ltd.
Company: NTT Docomo Inc.
Designer: NTT Docomo Inc.
The Xylophone was used in the movie for the TOUCH WOOD SH-08C and made with only forest-thinning materials. You can refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_CDLBTJD4M
Company: Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.
Designer: Microsoft Co.
"Kinect" is an original game system developed for the Xbox 360 that uses the player's body as a controller to create an intuitive playing experience. This highly advanced new technology can be applied not only to the gaming industry but also to a wide range of other industries and will raise expectations for the future of the graphical user interface (GUI) design.