The theme is “Campus – Going beyond the notebook”
The prize-winning entries for the KOKUYO Design Award have been decided
One entry wins the Grand Prix, while 3 other entries are given Awards for Excellence
Release date: 18th October, 2012
OSAKA. JapanTOKYO, October 18, 2012 － KOKUYO Co.,Ltd. (headquarters in Osaka; President: Akihiro Kuroda) announced that it chose 4 award-winning designs of KOKUYO Design Award 2012.
In that Award (entries accepted from 2nd April to 29th June 2012) – a competition which aims to gather accomplished and distinctive product designs from a wide range of general users, with a view to turning the best ones into commercial products – KOKUYO Co., Ltd. received a total of 1,170 designs from both Japan and overseas (1,033 designs had a domestic source, while 137 came from abroad). After judging all these entries, on 17th October the company chose 4 award-winning designs, the details of which follow.
Established to further strengthen our tradition of product creation that originates with the customer, the KOKUYO Design Award first started in 2010, making this year’s award the 10th time it has been held (2010 was the only year when it wasn’t). The theme of this year’s award was “Campus – Going beyond the notebook”. First appearing in 1975, Campus has a 37-year-long pedigree and is no longer just a brand of notebook – it’s now being restructured as a brand that “supports your study”, encompassing a range of products from stationery to furniture, even including spaces. For this competition, we gathered together novel designs that encapsulated that Campus brand spirit.The award-winning designs that won the Grand Prix and the Award for Excellence are as follows.
→The KOKUYO Design Award introductory page
The prize-winning designs
Grand Prix (1 design)
| Design name | Generic name | Design overview | Award winner/Group name | Namae no nai enogu [= ‘nameless paint’] | Paint | This is artists’ paint that expresses color by combining the three primary colors. With no restriction on the names of colors, this design makes you realise that you can create your own colors yourself. | Group name Ima, Moteki Group members Yusuke Imai, Ayami Moteki |
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§ The design name, generic name, award winner/group name, and name readings are reproduced as they appeared on the relevant application form.
Award for Excellence (3 designs)
| Design name | Generic name | Design overview | Award winner/Group name |
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| ESORA | Whiteboard | A whiteboard fitted with a transparent board. Objects in front of the user can be seen through the transparent board, allowing him/her to draw them. This helps children with their free-thinking. | Group name GENE CUBIC Group members Kentarō Sako, Naho Imajo, Yōhei Mizobe, Kōhei Fujinaka |
| Kamitaba | Drawing paper | This is a mental training product in which different paper materials and designs have become a sheaf of papers. Coming into contact with various kinds of paper helps to develop the child’s imagination. | Manbou Tabuchi |
| Pop-up Campus | A folding piece of study furniture for the home | Similar to domestic fold-away pop-up picture books for learning, this is a piece of study furniture in which the desk and seat ‘pop up’ when opened out. It folds away to a compact size, thus making it conveniently easy to carry. | Mariko Tsujimoto |
§ The design name, generic name, award winner/group name, and name readings are reproduced as they appeared on the relevant application form.
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