Glamorous presentation of prizes of the red dot award: communication design 2002 in the ‘Zeche Zollverein’ mining complex

At 15 November 2002 the time had come again: everybody who was anybody in communication design met in the ‘Zeche Zollverein’ mining complex for the presentation of the "red dot award: communication design 2002", which is held annually by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen.

800 invited guests from the design scene, trade, culture and media gave themseleves and the award-winners a sparkling evening. Wolfgang Behnken, designer and one of the competition’s jurors, handed over the certificates for the "red dot: best of the best" prize-winners together with Prof. Dr. Zec.

Designers and agencies from 18 countries took part in the "red dot award: communication design" with a total of 2,686 entries. 222 received the ‘red dot’ quality label, eighteen of them were honoured with the "red dot: best of the best" for highest design quality. “We are very happy about the popularity our competition has again had for designers and design-orientated businesses this year,” said Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, President of the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen.

The surprise-guest was the well known Prof. Kurt Weidemann, who, much to the joy of the scene, visited the red dot design museum for its award ceremony.

In the centre of attention were the prize-winners: The "red dot: junior prize" was awarded to the ‘Atana - airspace safety’ multimedia work. Lutz Hackenberg of the Alliance of German Designers (AGD) congratulated the young designers Nadja Riedel and Thorsten Steidle and handed over the Euro 2,500 prize-money sponsored by the AGD.

Ryo Teshima and Norio Takeshima from Japan received the competition’s highest award, the "red dot: grand prix" for an extraordinary fashion advertising campaign. The congratulator Bernd M. Michael, CEO Grey Europe, praised the red dot design award as „a sphere of high quality and high demands“. This grand prix-award is connected with a prize-money of Euro 10,000, which Axel Kramer, managing partner of the sponsor, the Thomas-Gruppe Gelsenkirchen, handed over to Teshima.

Following the award ceremony, the way led across the mining complex premises, which were lit by torches, into the red design museum to the exhibition opening, and the festivities in the old boiler house’s sublime atmosphere lasted till early in the morning.

The “red dot award: communication design 2002” special exhibition was open to visitors until 5 January 2003 in the red dot design museum.

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Exhibition

red dot award: communication design 2002

from 16 November 2002 to 5 January 2003

Tuesdays to Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Fridays to Sundays, 11 to 8 p.m.

The Grand Prix has been sponsored by

Thomas-Grafische Veredelung GmbH & Co. KG, Gelsenkirchen

The Junior Prize has been sponsored by

AGD Alliance of German Designers, Braunschweig