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Friday, 12 August 2005 | Levent OZLER
International Design Award Index 2005
At the 23 September 2005 Index:2005 hand out the biggest design award in the world.
The international competition includes five continents and has had 538 participants. Now the top nominations are down to 118 design projects from all over the world.
The focus is Design to improve life - design as a tool to make vast improvements in the life of many people. The categories focus on the key trends in human life: Body, Home, Work, Community and Play. See more in the attached file.
Index: 2005 hand out the world's largest design and innovation award on September 23rd. 118 top designs from all over the world have been selected from hundreds of nominees. The focus is Design to improve life - design as a tool to make vast improvements in the life of many people. The categories focus on the key trends in human life: Body, Home, Work, Community and Play. One project from each category will receive the INDEX: Awards.
From September 23rd - November 13th the 118 nominated top designs will be displayed at the centre of Copenhagen: The Future Scenarios Exhibition at the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen will illustrate how design could improve life for people around the world in year 2010.
From September 25th - September 28th - Views: 35 international and regional creative leaders from the world will participate in design labs in order to develop new and innovative solutions to 5 global challenges.
The 10th of November People's Choice Award will be presented.
Denmark has a long history with design. Danish Design is recognised all over the world as both aesthetic and functional. Also there has always been a democratic issue to Danish Design, and the Danish Design tradition is more about social design than about aesthetics. Building on these traditions, the focus for Index:2005 therefore is Design to improve life, and Copenhagen the city where the big event takes place and designers from all over the world meets.
http://www.index2005.dk
Statistical Highlights
62% of all top nominated designs are from Europe, whereas 28% is from North America, 6% from Asia, 3% from South America, and 1% from Africa.
28% of all top nominated designs are from the USA, 17% are from Denmark, 8% are from United Kingdom, and 6% are from Sweden.
71% of all top nominated designs are realized, 29% are not.
74% of all top nominated designs are tangible, and 26% are intangible.
Top nominated designs fall into the following five pre-determined categories: Body (20%), Work (20%), Home (19%), Play (12%), and Community (29%).
Denmark and the USA are the strongest in the Body category (8 nominations each), the USA is the strongest in Work (7 nominations), Home (5 nominations), and Community (9 nominations), whereas Play is up for grasp.
75% of the designers are professions, 12% are students, and 13% are others.
Denmark has the most overall nominations (17%), with 17% top nominated designs. The USA has 14% nominated designs, with 28% of the top nominated designs. Finland has 7% nominated designs, with 5% top nominations.
There are no major deviations between nominated designs and top nominated designs, when you compare the number of designs in the five categories.
More intangible designs made the cut and became top nominations (26%), with only 18% of all nominated designs, than tangible designs (82% nominated designs). 74% of the top nominated designs were tangible.
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