AOC LM729 Wins Good Design Award

AOC's LM729 has won the 2004 Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

AOC is recognized in the electronics category and the LM729 was the only monitor selected for this division. Good Design award winners are selected based on aesthetic criteria stated in the award's original 1950 program, criteria which measures innovation, form, materials, construction, concept, function and utility.

The 17" LCD value-priced display for business users was designed by AOC in collaboration with Lunar, an industrial design firm that has won three BusinessWeek Industrial Design Excellence awards.

In addition to its ultra-slim LCD design, the LM729 features advanced adjustability functions, including 25-degree tilt, 70-degree swivel and 110mm height-adjustment. The screen can be rotated 90-degrees for portrait or landscape viewing mode, and the included Pivot Pro software simplifies switching between these two modes.

"We are honored to be recognized as a leader in monitor design," said Alec Chan, Executive Vice President of AOC. "Our goal is to provide aesthetically-plea sing displays that offer high quality functionality and maximum space optimization for the value-conscious user. The LM729 is a perfect example of this."

"What is most significant about the Museum's Good Design Program is that