The year’s best designers and manufacturers, the winners of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019, were duly celebrated on 8 July. The international design scene convened in Essen on the occasion of the award ceremony to crown those blazing a trail in the industry.
During the Red Dot Gala, the laureates of the Red Dot: Best of the Best received their trophies in front of around 1,200 international guests in the Aalto-Theater.
Ferrari Head of Design, Flavio Manzoni
Ferrari Design Team
In addition, Flavio Manzoni and the Ferrari Design Team were officially named Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2019. The subsequent Designers’ Night provided an opportunity for dancing, networking and discovering the award-winning designs.
Honouring the top performers in design in Essen’s opera house
The products that won the Red Dot: Best of the Best stood out from over 5,500 entries thanks to their ground-breaking design. The jury awarded this highest distinction in the competition to just 80 products. The designers and manufacturers behind these outstanding achievements were celebrated as part of the Red Dot Gala. They accepted their well-deserved trophies on stage at the Aalto-Theater to appreciative applause.
Founder and CEO of Red Dot
Professor Dr. Peter Zec
In addition to the winners, Professor Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Award, welcomed three of the roughly 40 jury members on stage: Nils Toft, Founder and Managing Director of Designidea, Stefan Eckstein, Founder and CEO of Eckstein Design, and Prof. Dr. Ken Nah, Design Professor at IDAS, Hongik University. Together with the host, the industry experts congratulated the proud winners on their success in the competition.
Aalto Ballett Essen
Cultural entertainment was provided in the form of a performance by the Aalto Ballett Essen. With scenes from the piece “Homage to Queen” by Ben Van Cauwenbergh, the ensemble won favour with the audience and called into memory one of the world's most successful and most innovative rock bands.
High point of the evening: honouring the Ferrari Design Team
The event culminated in the official honours for the Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2019. Flavio Manzoni and the Ferrari Design Team have been producing consistently excellent designs for years, repeatedly winning over the jury with aesthetic and innovative sports cars that have earned respect.
Ferrari Design Team receiving their honor on stage
Head of Design Manzoni and his crew made a characteristically powerful appearance that featured Manzoni driving on stage in the award-winning Monza SP1, followed by his entire team and receiving rapturous applause. 2018 title holder Andreas Diefenbach from Phoenix Design then passed on the “Radius” challenge cup to his successors, thus officially crowning them as Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2019.
Designers’ Night in the Red Dot Design Museum
Designers’ Night at Red Dot Design Museum Essen
At the Designers’ Night, the focus was on the winners of the Red Dot and the Honourable Mention, as they received their certificates in the Red Dot Design Museum at the Zollverein World Heritage Site. The after-show party gave an opportunity to party, dance and network in the midst of the award-winning products. Guests had an exclusive sneak preview of three special exhibitions prior to their official opening on 12 July. They were able to try out some of the award-winning products and appreciate their outstanding design quality.
Guest trying on the “Teslasuit”
For example, visitors were permitted to test the “Teslasuit”, a full body haptic suit from VR Electronics, and understand how it supports improved motion, reflexes and instincts. They could also try out the “Ujet” electric scooter by the manufacturer of the same name. Those who wanted to prove their DIY skills were able to see how little energy is needed to use the wooden “TENZ® LowEnergy Screw”.
“Ujet” electric scooter
“TENZ® LowEnergy Screw”
Top achievements on show in Essen until 25 August
The exhibitions in the Red Dot Design Museum reflect the state of the art as well as current trends in product design. While “Milestones in Contemporary Design 2019” presents the products that have won the Red Dot: Best of the Best, “Design on Stage 2019” shows all of the objects that received a Red Dot or an Honourable Mention.
exhibition “Designing Dreams: Ferrari Design Team”
In the exhibition designed by Ferrari Design, “Designing Dreams: Ferrari Design Team”, the design team of the year showcases its outstanding achievements. The exhibitions are on show at the museum until 25 August. Exhibition of Winners Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019 will move to Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen on 30 November.
Chinese Winner Benefit
From 2019, we will provide service specially for Chinese winners of Red Dot Award: Product Design and Red Dot Award: Brands and Communication Design. For those winners who didn't get their award certificates due to any reasons, we will take care of it. Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019 award certificates will begin available to be collected from beginning of August 2019 at Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen. All winners can get their certificates meanwhile visit the world's third Red Dot Design Museum for free.
Contemporary Good Design Award registration well under way
In 2019, CGD has upgraded itself to the “2.0 era”, The award focuses on solving winners’ development concerns, thus provides a total of 15 customized winner services in 5 aspects. The 15 winner service include international exhibition tours in three major Red Dot Design Museums, sales channels recommendation, participation in design fairs and investment match making events,etc. Therefore, the award meets 5 layers of development need including product promotion, brand promotion, sales boost,public relations events and branding support of the winners in a comprehensive way, and effectively boost consumption and industry upgrading.
In addition to the upgrade of winner service, CGD further increases its categories to 49, with packaging design as a new category. On May 8th, CGD registration is open to manufacturers and designers from all over the world whose products are manufactured using an industrial production process.
Registration Period:
May 8 – Sept 11
Fees:
6.6 - 8.12 Regular: 1,000 RMB / Entry
8.13 - 9.11 Latecomer: 1,200 RMB / Entry
Apply Now:
Go to the official website cgdaward.com and create account.
Or, go to the official WeChat account “CGD当代好设计” and click “立即报名”.
For more information please go to:
Official Website: cgdaward.com
E-mail: award.cgd@red-dot.cn
WeChat Customer Service: cgd_award
Tel: +86 0592-5153752
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