Japan's Good Design Award 2015 winners announced

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Joyce Lam
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Japan’s annual Good Design Award event is known for being one of the most distinguished design evaluation systems in the world – their ‘G Mark’ symbol is like the holy grail for designers across all industries. Since 1957, they have been awarding products that are more than just nice to look at; these items enrich our lives and encourage advancements in society – be it a pen, a house, a car or a bionic arm. Approximately 1,200 awards are given out each year, with the results announced at the beginning of October.

This year, a whopping 1,337 designs out of 3,658 submissions have been honoured with the Good Design Award. Out of those, 100 have been put on the shortlist for the Grand Award whilst 33 other products, including instant glues, correction tapes, bakery scans, Narita's new Terminal 3 and Muji's 'Wood House' were awarded the Long Life Design Award. One our favourites has to be the HACKberry 3D bionic arm by Exiii (pictured above). Although the motorised hand was already invented years ago, it hasn't been commercially viable until now. The company has reduced the cost to a tenth of the original price by using a 3D printer and making all data and sources available online.

Want to see more? Check out the website and don't miss the Good Design Exhibition held from Oct 30 to Nov 4 at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi. In the meantime, here are a few more goodies…



Bakery scan by Brain Co., Ltd. for automatic checkout

'Mass of Wood' house by Yoshiaki Amino

Hakone's 3000 series Allegra passenger train

Pandaichiro – a virtual panda on Line to listen to your woes. Because Pandas are wise?

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