by Brianna Crandall — February 7, 2014—The 2013 Good Design awards showcasing “the world’s most important consumer design products” were recently announced by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. Considered the world’s most prestigious and oldest design awards program, the annual awards cover new consumer products designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America.
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.
Over 700 new products and graphic designs were selected from over 38 countries for new electronics, medical equipment, protective equipment, energy systems, robotics and bionics, building products/materials, furniture, textiles, industrial, environments, hardware, floor and wallcovering, office products, lighting, tools and more.
Awarded corporations include such facilities-related companies as: 3M Company, Apple, Acco Brands, Allsteel, ASSA ABLOY, Carnegie, Crown Equipment Corp., Edge Lighting, Etón Corporation, Evolo, Haworth, Hewlett-Packard, Inscape Corp., Interface, Knoll, KONE Corporation, KPMG, Krueger International, Landscape Forms, Legrand North America, LG Electronics, Milliken & Company, Pure Lighting, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Securitron Magnalock Corp., Steelcase, Tandus Flooring, Teknion, Tennant Company, and many others.
The trademarked awards were created in Chicago in 1950 by three architects: Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. The distinctive black dot-shaped logo, designed the same year by the late Chicago graphic designer, Mort Goldsholl, appears on products and for advertising and marketing purposes around the world.
For more information about Landscape Forms and Teknion furnishings, visit their respective Web sites as well as the Landscape Forms and Teknion ads on FMLink.
