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iPod tog hem Index Awards

Olle Blomkvist
Uppdaterad: 23 sep. 2005Publicerad: 23 sep. 2005

Apple är vinnare av det nya danska designpriset Index Awards i klassen Play. Bland de fem vinnarna återfinns tyvärr inga svenskar. Här är alla pristagarna.

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Realtid.se publicerar här pressmeddelandet från Index, som släpptes fredag kväll klockan 20.00

On Friday night, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince presented a total of €500,000 to the winners of the large design event INDEX: Awards. The international INDEX: jury selected the five designs that they estimate to have improved life within the last five years in the following five categories: body, home, work, play and community. The winners also received prizes from Royal Copenhagen and Georg Jensen.

The five winners are:

The Play Category: Apple iTunes, iPod

Design by Apple Design Team, USA

iPod together with Apple’s iTunes software is truly changing the way people experience their music. iPod allows a music fan to have their entire music collection with them anytime, anywhere. The iTunes software provides unparalleled ease of use for organization and sharing of music as well as recorded literature and images. Playlists can be shared with other computers across a network via Apple’s Bonjour technology. iTunes secures that music users pay for their music.

The Body Category: LifeStraw™

Design by Torben Vestergaard Frandsen (Denmark), Rob Fleuren (Holland) and Moshe Frommer (Israel).

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LifeStraw™ brings clean water to people in the third world on an individual level and makes people less dependent on others for clean drinking water. With LifeStraw™ everyone from school kids to farmers will find it convenient to sip water from any source. It is a safe and user friendly tool, which eliminates diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites. LifeStraw™ can prevent waterborne diseases like diphtheria, cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea – diseases that kill millions each year.

The Home Category: Softwall

Design by Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen, Canada

The paper (or textile) Softwall dynamically partitions large open rooms and spaces into more intimate and personal surroundings of any shape. Unlike fixed walls or conventional partitioning systems, Softwall is ever-changing and can form space in a spontaneous, flexible and ephemeral way. The compressed Softwall is small, lightweight, and highly transportable, and when needed can easily and instantly be expanded up to 300 times its size. Softwall dampens sound and can both absorb and transmit light. Paper Softwall is made from recycled material and is 100% recyclable.

The Work Category: Observatorio Iberoamericano para la Artesanía

Design by Fundación Española para la Innovación de la Artesanía, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Commerce, Spain

The Foundation designed a strategy, a network and a website focused on improving life for 40 milion craftsmen in Latin America, who are threatened by the globalisation. The main activities improve the networking among craftsmen and teach them new tendencies with tailor made activities. The Foundation works with craftsmen on research of new design methods, information transfer, networks, technological development, design, product development and access to new markets. The Foundation has trained thousands of craftsmen, promoted their craft, and defined development programs following up their implementation to improve people’s lives.

The Community Category: Architecture for Humanity

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Design by Cameron Sinclair, USA

Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has one of the highest rates of death from HIV/AIDS in the world, with South Africa’s Medical Research Council estimating that HIV/AIDS accounts for 42% of all deaths in this region. In spite of the ghastly figures, people infected with AIDS in the area are still stigmatized and the need for proper health-care facilities and places of information and education are in high demand.

The five winners received €100.000 each. The awards were presented by the Protector of INDEX: 2005, HRH The Crown Prince, Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen, Mayor of Copenhagen Lars Engberg, Nanna Ditzel’s grandchild Emil Ditzel and former managing director Johan Schrøder. In addition to the cash prize, the winners either received a Verner Panton silver plate from Georg Jensen, a bowl (Blue Fluted Plain – design by Arnold Krog) or a unique vase, designed by Peter Brandes, both from Royal Copenhagen.

The winning designs are exhibited together with the 96 top nominated designs on the five squares close to the pedestrian street Strøget. The exhibitions are outdoor and free of charge.

Attached please find the jury’s motivations for selected those five INDEX: Award winners.

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