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Kokuyo Design Award 2007
 Kokuyo Co., Ltd. has announced the Kokuyo Design Award 2007 design competition, and is encouraging all those wishing to participate to submit their user-oriented product designs. The goal of the competition is to develop excellent ideas into commercial products. Applications are accepted from April 1 to June 30, 2007.
Theme: Adaptable items
Please design something which is flexible and has large allowance, and which also can be applied by unexpected usage; accepted by various people; can be used at the destination; can be purchased without much money; can be upgraded; can be used even your figure has been changed. You don't have to design a combined instrument, such as an army knife. We expect something that fits the complexity of modern people's daily life with a sort of ideas.
Category
Any product used daily either at home or in the work place (stationery, furniture, household items, etc.)
Entry Period
April 1, 2007 - May 31, 2007
Deadline
Works must be arrived between April 1 and June 30, 2007
Judges
Shunji Yamanaka (Jury Chair, Designer/President of LEADING EDGE DESIGN)
Oki Sato (Designer/President of nendo)
Fumie Shibata (Industrial Designer/President of Studio S)
Manabu Mizuno (Art Director/President of good design company)
Akihiro Kuroda (President, Kokuyo Co., Ltd.)
Prizes
Grand Prize: 2 million yen
Second Prize (4 winners):500,000 yen each
Special Prize (5 winners): 100,000 yen each
*Prize amounts are subject to income tax, and is the responsibility of the recipients
Organizer
Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
For more information, visit http://www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/
Kokuyo Design Award: http://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/4741/
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