The best design products 2007

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The winners of the red dot award, one of the largest and most renowned international design competitions, have been chosen. From the absolute record number of 2,548 submitted products, which had been sent to Essen for assessment by the experts, a total of 43 top products have received the ‘red dot: best of the best’ for their outstanding and innovative design. (The photo is Yin Yang Chaise longue – DEDON GmbH.) They come from Brazil, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea and the United States. The festive awards presentation in front of more than 1,000 guests will take place on 25 June 2007 in the Essen Opera House, the Aalto Theatre.

Wedge – Wash basin – HighTech Design Produtcs AG – BAGNO SASSO

“The number of submitted products as well as their quality standards have been outstanding this year” – with these words Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, initiator of the red dot design award and president of the international design association Icsid, described this year’s competition. “It has been particularly noticeable that China and Taiwan are becoming stronger every year. They are no longer satisfied with the role of an extended workbench of the western industrial nations, but have begun to create excellent design themselves.” This design boom was particularly noticeable in the product categories ‘Media and home electronics’ and ‘Computers and accessories’, which were clearly dominated by the Asian manufacturers. “The increase in quality by original design concepts from Asian manufacturers proves the growing strategic importance of design as a competition factor in the age of globalisation; design can be characterised as the central driving force behind innovations in the industry” explained the design expert and professor of business communication.

Bossa – Pendant – lumini

The award-winning products will be presented in the special exhibition ‘Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2007’ in the Essen red dot design museum on the premises of the world cultural heritage site ‘Zeche Zollverein’ from 26 June to 23 July 2007. With its more than 1,000 products on more than 4,000 square metres, the red dot design museum houses the largest permanent exhibition of contemporary design.

You can see the best of the best winners here.

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