2020 Good Design Award Winners
D+I 2020 GOOD DESIGN AWARD WINNERS
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The 2020 Good Design Team of the Year Award has been awarded to Design+Industry, Australia’s leading Industrial Design consultancy. The Good Design Team of the Year is a special honour bestowed annually to a design team who consistently perform at the highest level in the annual Good Design Awards. The Award recognises a design team that has made a positive and tangible impact in establishing and maintaining a design-led culture within their organisation. The Award is selected by Good Design Australia and is aimed at inspiring corporations to build and maintain a design-led culture throughout the organisation.
Dr. Brandon Gien, CEO of Good Design Australia said, “D+I sets the bar for design excellence in Australia. Their team of design experts are globally recognised for their innovative and ground-breaking approach to the design process. They have a proven track record of tackling the most challenging of projects and embedding good design principles at the epicentre of everything they touch. I can’t think of a more worthy design business in Australia to be recognised with this prestigious honour.”
On receiving the Award, Murray Hunter, Founder and CEO of Design + Industry said, “This award validates the ongoing excellence the team creates on an everyday basis. It makes us all very proud and it is an honour to accept it, thank you Good Design Australia.”
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D+I 2020 GOOD DESIGN AWARD WINNERS LIST
+ Design + Industry:
Good Design Team of the Year 2020
+ AbilityMade: Best in Class
Engineering Design
+ AbilityMade: Gold
Product Design: Medical + Scientific
+ SmartSnugg: Gold
Product Design: Consumer Electronics
+ Zip Water: Zip Micro™ – Gold
(Product Design: Domestic Appliances
+ VBreathe: Tasman – Gold
Product Design: Consumer Electronics
+ BRAUMS: PX Luminaire – Gold
Product Design: Commercial + Industrial
+ Ocean Guardian: eSPEAR – Gold
Product Design: Sports + Lifestyle
+ Shriro Australia/Omega Altise: Aura – Winner
Product Design: Domestic Appliances
+ NOOK: Modular Soundbooth – Winner
Product Design: Furniture + Lighting
+ DJO/Chattanooga: Intelect Mobile 2 – Winner
Product Design: Medical + Scientific
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About Design+Industry
Design+Industry (D+I) is Australia’s most awarded Industrial Design and Product Development company receiving a host of Australian and international design awards including the coveted Good Design Award of the Year for the Deepsea Challenger in 2012, designed in conjunction with Hollywood Director, James Cameron. D+I was selected by James Cameron and Ron Allum as the Australian Industrial Design Team to develop the cockpit layout for the Deepsea Challenger's record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean (deeper than Mount Everest is high).
More recently, D+I took out the 2019 Good Design Award of the Year for their work on the Inventia Rastrum 3D Bioprinter designed for Inventia Life Science. The Rastrum 3D Bioprinter is a revolutionary 3D bioprinting platform based on drop-on-demand deposition. Driven by the needs of biomedical researchers and tissue engineers, D+I set out to develop a precise, safe and intuitive platform for the 3D printing of living cells. With applications in cell-based research and regenerative medicine, Rastrum has the potential to revolutionise biomedical research.
D+I has been driving business success through design in global markets for more than 30 years and is one of the few ISO 13485:2016 Certified Industrial Design and Product Development Consultancies in Australia. With more 50 industrial designers and mechanical engineers working out of their Sydney and Melbourne studios, they develop innovative product design and engineering solutions for companies striving to deliver world-leading medical devices, business equipment and consumer products.
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