"Fresh, Innovative and Wide-ranging"; Five of 20 Winners at COMPUTEX TAIPEI Design and Innovation Awards 2009 Receive Gold Awards.COMPUTEX, Taipei, June 4, 2009 - (ACN ACN Accenture (stock symbol) ACN Accenture ACN Australian Company Number ACN Automatic Collision Notification (US DOT) ACN Acetonitrile ACN Anglican Communion Network Newswire) - The second COMPUTEX TAIPEI COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show (Traditional Chinese: 台北國際電腦展 design and innovation awards is the result of a cooperation between iF International Forum Design and TAITRA TAITRA Taiwan External Trade Development Council , and is part of the 'organised by iF' initiative. The competition, which was open to the exhibitors at the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2009 exhibition, and also to all registered IT firms in Taiwan, is divided into seven categories: - Communication Products - Components & Parts - Computer Systems - Peripherals - Data Storage Device/Media - Optoelectronic Display andDigital Audio/Video - Gaming & Entertainment The jurors Gerhard Seizer (onizou idea nomads, on world tour), Hiroaki Tanaka (GEO design, Japan), Lawrence Weng (ETM (database) ETM - An active DBMS from the University of Karlsruhe. group, Taiwan), Gideon Loewy (Scandinavian Design For the furniture store chain Scandinavian Design, see . Scandinavian Design emerged in the 1950s in the three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) as well as Finland as a design movement characterised by simple, uncomplicated designs, minimalism, stylisation, Consultant, Denmark) and Marc Nagel (Pilotfish Inc., Germany) judged 147 competition entries from four countries according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the following criteria: - Degree of innovation - Design quality - Workmanship - Choice of materials - Environmental friendliness - Functionality -Utility value - Safety - Ergonomics ergonomics, the engineering science concerned with the physical and psychological relationship between machines and the people who use them. The ergonomicist takes an empirical approach to the study of human-machine interactions. - Universal design - Brand value / branding According to the jury members, "the surprising winners of this year's COMPUTEX TAIPEI design and innovation award represent a variety of fresh and new creations.An amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. development has taken placewe can look forward with excitement to the future of Taiwanese design. Above all, during the current financial crisis, firms need to invest in innovation and design." The award-winning products from Taiwan will automatically have the right to carry the 'TAIWAN GOOD DESIGN' label. After a registration process with the Taiwan Design Centre (TDC TDC Top Dead Center TDC Time-to-Digital Converter TDC Tabular Data Control TDC Total Development Cost TDC Texas Department of Corrections TDC The Discovery Channel TDC Torpedo Data Computer TDC Theater Deployable Communications ), the winners will receive their GD-mark certification. This year, the jury did not give a Green Award to any of the competition entries. They would, however, like to encourage companies to go further and think innovatively in this special field. Jury statements for the five COMPUTEX TAIPEI design and innovation gold awards: Entered product: Acer Aspire 3935 - Notebook Category: 03. Computer Systems Company: Acer Inc., Taipei / Taiwan Design: Acer Inc., Taipei /Taiwan Jury statement: "At last, we are seeing a notebook that is not trying to imitate a 'look'. Its bodywork bodywork /body·work/ (-wurk?) a general term for therapeutic methods that center on the body for the promotion of physical health and emotional and spiritual well-being, including massage, various systems of touch and manipulation, is made from pure brushed aluminium. The advantage of this materialin addition to the fact that it is a high-quality materialis that it is resistant to smudging smudging (smuˑ·jing), n in Native American medicine, the ritual of purifying the location, patient, healer, helpers and ritual objects by using the smoke obtained by burning sacred by fingerprints. The notebook not only looks like a quality product, it is also based on quality manufacturing and detailing. The various parts in its construction harmonise perfectly with one another, providing design of the highest quality." Entered product: DHKS-10 - Dual Tray LCD Console Drawer Category: 03. Computer Systems Company: Hoeya Technology, Inc., Taipei/Taiwan Design: Hoeya Technology, Inc., Taipei/Taiwan Jury statement: "This high-quality product is refined and is a joy to use. In a product area where good design is hard to find, the fantastic design and excellent detailing makes this product really stand out. Even though the parts of the dual tray LCD console drawer are not visible within the housing of the device, they are positioned with great precision. It was this attention to detail that really impressed us as jurymembers. The product manages to successfully bridge the gap between form and function." Entered product: SI-24S - Digital Signage Digital signage is a form of out-of-home advertising in which content and messages displayed on an electronic screen, or digital sign, can be changed without modification to the physical sign, typically with the goal of delivering targeted messages to specific locations at System Category: 03. Computer Systems Company: IBASE Technology Inc., Taipei/Taiwan Design: IBASE Technology Inc., Taipei/Taiwan Jury statement: "The design of this system is particularly pure, simple and functional. Thanks to its simplicity, the Digital Signage System can be manufactured at low cost, since it is made of as few elements as possible. The curved metal sheeting gives it an individual character, which is additionally reinforced by its black and white colour scheme. The Digital Signage System proves that, today, less is not only more, but that products of this type can stand out and have the potential to become future design icons." Entered product: SpinQ - CPU Cooler A device that draws heat away from a CPU chip and other hot-running chips such as a graphics processor (GPU). The simplest type of cooler is a heat sink, which is a metal cover glued to the chip that provides a larger surface area for heat dissipation. Category: 04. Peripherals Company: Thermaltake Technology Co. Ltd., Taipei /Taiwan Design: Thermaltake Technology Co. Ltd, Thermaltake Technology, /Taiwan Jury statement: "This product is about absolutely convincing aesthetic design. The engaging spiral shape elegantly conveys to the user how the device functions. With its sculptural appearance, it is an outstanding design contribution, especially to theaccessories market." Entered product: ZEBEX Z-3130BT - Handy Bluetooth CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. - Barcode Scanner See bar code scanner. Category: 04. Peripherals Company: ZEBEX INDUSTRIES INC., Taipei /Taiwan Design: AIMEX CORPORATION, Tokyo/Japan Jury statement: "Above all, the design of this barcode scanner is based on its ergonomics. The elegantly designed device fits perfectly in the hand and is extremely comfortable in use. In addition to the simple design, the soft control button is responsible for the high user-friendliness of the scanner. Its a device that looks friendly rather than technological, making it more suitable for todays retail sector." The Jury - Short Bios Gerhard Selzer Gerhard Selzer was born in 1973, in Ochenfurt, Germany. Since studyingproduct design at the design school in Gmund, Swabia he has worked as a freelance designer at, amongst others, Dr Garnich Design, Zeichen & Wunder and Siemens Design & Messe GmbH. After working as a designer in Japan, in 2006 he set up WILDDESIGN Co., in Shanghai, China. It is one of the leading German service providers in the field of medical design. At the beginning of 2009, Gerhard Selzer founded ONIZOU - IDEA NOMADS - ONIZOU with his partner, and in 2009 will be making a world tour, takingpart in various design events around the world. Gideon Loewy Gideon Loewy is an international expert on creative design, an architect, lecturer and journalist. For over 25 years he has worked from his Danish studio as a freelance designer and consultant for both the industrial and private sectors. Loewy is the owner of Scandinavian Designers(R), who have had their headquarters in Taiwan since 2002. In 2006 they selected as one of the top 10 industrial design companies in that country. Loewy's works have won countless prizes, such as the iF award, the G-Mark and the Innovalue Excellence. Hiroaki Tanaka Hiroaki Tanaka studied industrial design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating, he founded the GEO designagency. Tanaka and his agency have worked with many of the largest Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. , such as Panasonic, Epson, Pioneer and Fuji Film. He has won both the Japanese G-Mark and the Korean Good Design Award many times. Lawrence Weng Born in 1964,Lawrence Weng graduated from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology(Traditional Chinese: 國立臺灣科技大學; Simplified Chinese: 国立台湾科技大学) was established on August 1, 1974, as the first and the Arts Centre An art center or arts centre is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, College of Design. In 1991, he started working in the areas of product design and development at I+U design. His clients included Acer, Asus, Canon, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing , Lenovo and Motorola. He is currently working as the design director of the ETM group. Since 1991 he has won many design awards, iF design awards among them. Marc Nagel Marc Nagel studied industrial design at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg Hamburg, city, Germany Hamburg (häm`b  rkh), officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), city (1994 pop. (HfbK). After graduating, he studied 'creation
industrielle' (industrial design) at LES ATELIERSEcole Nationale
Superieure de Creation Industrielle (ENSCI ENSCI Nationale Supérieure de la Céramique Industrielle ) in Paris. Before founding
Pilotfish in 2000 with Harm-Willem Hogenbirk, he worked as a designer
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About COMPUTEX TAIPEI COMPUTEX TAIPEI has become the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in the world, next to CeBIT in Germany. Each year, key global businesses come to this event to launch their new products. Since a large portion of the businesses in the world have research and deployment centers or production facilities in Taiwan, this exhibition attracts observers, analysts, and journalists of computer and information industries from all over the world to discover and report the latest technologies, developments, and trends. For more information, please visit www.computextaipei.com.tw. Source: COMPUTEX TAIPEI Contact: Tobie Lee iF Branch Office Taiwan P. +886.2.26559007 F. +886.2.26559077 E. tobie.lee@ifdesign.tw W. www.ifdesign.de Contact for editorial teams: iF press office Cologne - Hanover Silke Becker, Sandy Pfebdorf Claudia Neumann Communication GmbH Eigelstein 103-113 50668 Cologne Germany phone +49 (0)221-91 39 49-0 fax +49 (0)221-91 39 49-19 email iF@neumann-luz.de http://www.ifdesign.de Copyright 2009 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. |
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