Facts and figures of the red dot award: product design 2008

Entries:      3,203 (2007: 2,548)
Nations:     51 (2007: 43)
red dot awards:    676 (2007: 623)
red dot: best of the best awards: 50 (2007: 43)

Dates:

Award ceremony:  23 June 2008, 6.00 pm in the Essen Aalto Theatre, Essen, Germany   
Special exhibition:  24 June to 27 July 2008 in the red dot design museum, Essen, Germany

The jury of the red dot award: product design 2008

· Sybs Bauer, Designkunst, Germany
· Gordon Bruce, Gordon Bruce Design LLC, USA
· Tony K. M. Chang, Taiwan Design Center, Taiwan
· Vivian Cheng Wai Kwan, Hong Kong
· Mårten Claesson, Co-founder of the Swedish design partnership Claesson Koivisto Rune, Sweden
· Sebastian Conran, Conran & Partners, Great Britain 
· Vincent Créance, MBD Design, France
· Martin Darbyshire, tangerine, Great Britain
· Robin Edman, The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation, Sweden
· Joachim Faust, HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner, Germany
· Prof. Lutz Fügener, Fachhochschule Pforzheim, Germany
· Prof. Renke He, Hunan University China, School of Design, China
· Prof. Herman Hermsen, The Netherlands
· Prof. Carlos Hinrichsen, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
· Prof. Dr. Florian Hufnagl, Die Neue Sammlung – Pinakothek der Moderne, Germany
· Annette Lang, Annette Lang Product Design, Germany
· Kristiina Lassus, Kristiina Lassus Studio, Italy
· Prof. Soon-In Lee, Seoul Design Center, South Korea
· Prof. Stefan Lengyel, Lengyel Design, Germany/Hungary
· Dr. Thomas Lockwood, Design Management Institute, USA
· Wolfgang Mayer-Hayoz, Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group, Switzerland
· Kazuo Tanaka, GK Design Group, Japan
· Nils Toft, CBD A/S, Denmark
· Danny Venlet, Venlet Interior Architecture, Belgium

The jury’s assessment criteria:

Degree of innovation
Functionality
Formal quality
Ergonomics
Durability
Symbolic and emotional content
Product peripherals
Self-explanatory quality
Ecological soundness

The product categories of the red dot award: product design

1  Living rooms and bedrooms
2  Kitchens
3  Households
4  Bathrooms, heatings, sanitary installations and air-conditioning
5  Lighting and lamps
6  Gardens
7  Sport, games and leisure
8  Jewellery, fashion and lifestyle
9  Architecture and interior design
10  Offices
11  Industry and crafts
12  Life science and medicine
13 Automobiles, transport and caravans
14  Entertainment technology
15  Communication
16  Computers

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