For the first time in the history of the “Good Design® Award” The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., have awarded the Good Design® Award for a bed: Phi-ton .Good Design® is an international symbol for a company's firm commitment to innovation and superior design embodiment. All materials and products are accessed into the Museum's Permanent Design Collection and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
Phi-ton , an extraordinary design by Fried-Jan Unger, produced and distributed by Phi-ton B.V., has already received several previous awards – such as the “red dot design award” and the ”imm innovation award” and was nominated twice for the German Design Prize by The German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung) founded as an initiative of the German Federal Parliament in 1953. Now, this international recognition has been crowned with an American Award of the highest distinction.
Good design awards criteria
The Museum's annual Good Design® Awards are given for the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world.
Quality design of the highest form, function, and aesthetics - a standard beyond ordinary consumer products and graphics. The Chicago Athenaeum's Good Design® program forwards the ideals of a design process that embodies product excellence and endurance and strong public identity.
The jury
The entries are judged by a jury of distinguished design professionals and leading industry specialists and design press on criteria established in the original 1950 program for the highest aesthetics in terms of innovative design, new technologies, form, materials, construction, concept, function, utility, and energy efficiency, and sensitivity to the environment.
History Good Design® Award 1950 – 2008
Good Design® is the oldest and one of the most prestigious Awards Program organized worldwide.
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, Good Design® honours the yearly achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufactures for their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence.
Nearly six decades later, The Chicago Athenaeum continues the organization of the program to create a revived awareness about contemporary design and to honour both products and industry leaders in design and manufacturing that have chartered new directions and pushed the envelope for competitive products in the world marketplace.
Annually, designers and manufactures in over 30 nations have been honoured for their singular achievements in producing hallmarks of contemporary design.
For 58 years, everything and anything produced in and for the environment from a paperclip to a Boeing 777 have been honoured.
The Good Design® logo was designed by Chicago designer, Mort Goldsholl, in 1950.
Good Design® is an international symbol of a company's firm commitment to innovation and superior design embodiment. All materials and products are accessed into the Museum's Permanent Design Collection and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
Press contactPhi-ton B.V.
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About Phi-ton B.V.Phi-ton, the organization
Phi-ton B.V. is a Dutch company with head quarters in Arnhem, The Netherlands. In the countries in which Phi-ton is active, the products are distributed through premium bedroom - and interior furniture specialists and department stores as well as being recommended by interior architects.
Phi-ton franchise has recently opened its first Phi-ton Flagship store in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Over the coming years more Phi-ton stores will be opened throughout the world.
Phi-ton beds and 3D-products are produced in an ecological responsible way and in accordance with the highest German quality standards.
More information : http://www.phi-ton.com
