June 2008
In the coming weeks, the city of Essen will once again become the meeting point for international design: on 23 June 2008, the awards presentation of the red dot award: product design 2008 will attract more than 1,000 international guests from design, business and politics into the Essen opera house, the Aalto Theatre. The traditional highlight of the event will be the official announcement of the “red dot: design team of the year”. The laudatory speech honouring the design team of the year will be given by the Bonn-based author, journalist and radio presenter, Dr. Michael Köhler.
This year, the design quality of 3,203 submitted products from 51 nations had to be assessed. In total, 50 of them received the “red dot: best of the best” for their outstanding design; another 676 received the “red dot” quality seal for high design quality. This year it was particularly challenging for the jury consisting of 24 international experts to select the best products from the high quality entries. “The designers have realised that customers’ demands have increased enormously in recent years,” said Icsid president and jury member Professor Carlos Hinrichsen. “Only absolute premium products can be successful in the market, and identifying them was an interesting challenge for us.”
The event programme will already begin in the afternoon in the red dot design museum with the opening of the two special exhibitions “Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2008” and “Bose Design. The Expression of Technology“, before the awards presentation honouring the winners starts at 6:00pm in the Aalto Theatre. The event’s cultural programme will consist of performances by the aalto ballet theatre and the drummer Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic.
Following the awards presentation, the winners and guests of honour are invited to the traditional Winners’ Dinner prepared by star chef Frank Rosin. The Winners’ Party will start in the red dot design museum at 8.30pm; here the winners will be able to celebrate their awards in the impressive industrial ambience of the boiler house while enjoying a red dot cocktail.
The winners’ exhibition in the red dot design museum
From 24 June to 27 July 2008, the red dot design museum will display all award-winning products in the exhibition “Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2008” as well as present the exhibition “Bose Design. The Expression of Technology”. Simultaneously, the red dot design museum will exhibit award-winning design concepts in the special exhibition “red dot award: design concept winners’ exhibition” presented by the red dot design museum Singapore. With an exhibition area of more than 4,000 square metres and some 1,500 products, the red dot design museum in the former boiler house of the ‘Zeche Zollverein’ colliery houses the largest permanent exhibition of contemporary design worldwide.
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