Winner of five GOOD DESIGN awards
RZB products won five 2012 GOOD DESIGN awards (USA)
Smart technology. Outstanding designs. Established in 1950 by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and awarded in cooperation with the European Centre of Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, the GOOD DESIGN AWARD is the world’s most prestigious prize of its type. The GOOD DESIGN AWARD’s founders included such luminaries as Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and the former MOMA curator Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. According to GOOD DESIGN AWARD co-coordinator Larry L. Summers, The Chicago Athenaeum received over 3,000 submissions from 48 countries for the 2012 prize. From these, the jury selected 700 products in a broad range of categories, with 47 awards being given in the Lighting category. The following RZB products won 2012 GOOD DESIGN AWARDS: RING OF FIRE, COROS KRISTALL, SIDELITE ELLYPSOID, LAVANO and QUADRALED – all designed by RZB’s head designer Helmut Heinrich. In winning these 2012 GOOD DESIGN AWARDS, RZB products join an elite group of past winners such as the Boeing 787 and NASA Space Shuttle. RZB won the most GOOD DESIGN AWARDS of any manufacturer in its category for 2012. The main criteria on which products are judged for the GOOD DESIGN AWARD are innovation, form, material, construction, concept, function, usage value, and the aesthetic impression made by the product. GOOD DESIGN AWARDS winners are entitled to use the GOOD DESIGN logo, which was designed back in 1950 by industrial designer Mort Goldsholl. |