Client: Terabeam

Even though it's a highly technical device, the product is cleanly design with good form and well made for its application. The Terabeam Window Attenuation Meter allows a user to measure window attenuation without access to both sides of a window.

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Client: OXO International

Using a well-communicated design with easy-to-understand language, OXO International created a compelling packaging system to introduce its new line Grind It. Because grinding dried herbs and spices is new to the American market, OXO's new line Grind IT needed to grab the buyer's attention and quickly explain the Grind IT system.

Client: Laerdal Medical Corp.

The SpeedBlocks Head Immobilizer is an evolutionary innovative design for use by EMTs. It is a hybrid re-useable or disposable device that is pre-mounted to a backboard. The adjustable blocks allow emergency workers to safely immobilize a victim's head, thus decreasing spinal trauma during transport.

Credit: ZIBA Design, Inc. and Odak Kozmetik Sanayi, Turkey

Client: Odak Kozmetik Sanayi, Turkey

The product packing design has a dreamy quality and the material shapes have an anxious language. Odak, a Turkish skin-care product manufacturer, used a flexible packaging system with shapes and colors of each product that were specifically designed to be flexible in marketing and instantly recognizable to the consumer.

An ultrasound machine by its nature is a complicated device, but Siemens' design has solved usability, mass and control reachability problems. The SONOLINE Antares is a medical ultrasound system used by sonographers and doctors. The Antares is half the size and half the cost as its predecessor with the same functionality.

"Every aspect of the SONOLINE Antares gives the impression that it was well-thought-out and carefully designed." - Stephen B. Wilcox, Ph.D., FIDSA

Client: BodyMedia Inc.

The design is non-threatening with a nice simple body-friendly attitude and it replaces numerous old devices. Worn on the upper arm, SenseWear Pro Armband is a multi-parameter monitor for collecting clinically accurate energy expenditure (caloric burn), sleep quality and activity state (sitting, driving, watching TV) in a free-living environment.

Client: I.V. House, Inc.

A product that should have been designed long ago, I.V. House's innovative product brings a feasible and cost effective alternative to simply taping catheters to a patient's body to hold them in place. The Intravenous Site Protector Dressing helps prevent patients from picking at or pulling out their catheters. The design integrates a dressing wrap that offers comfort to the patient, and eliminates the used of tape over the traditional dressing.

Client: OXO International

Using a well-communicated design with easy-to-understand language, OXO International created a compelling packaging system to introduce its new line Grind It. Because grinding dried herbs and spices is new to the American market, OXO's new line Grind IT needed to grab the buyer's attention and quickly explain the Grind IT system.

Client: Odak Kozmetik Sanayi, Turkey

The product packing design has a dreamy quality and the material shapes have an anxious language. Odak, a Turkish skin-care product manufacturer, used a flexible packaging system with shapes and colors of each product that were specifically designed to be flexible in marketing and instantly recognizable to the consumer.

Re-thinking the home spa soaking bath, Kohler uses a clean architectural language, instead of a plumbing language, to describe its sok Overflowing Bath. This great soaker tub uses an effervescence water recirculation system, rather than pummeling water jets, to soothe the body.

"The architectural simplicity of this soaking tub belies its advanced technological concept. Human comfort and convenience is paramount without looking like a therapeutic device." -Niels Diffrient, FIDSA