INNOVATION: Fall 2006, IDEA Yearbook

Yearbook of Design Excellence

Welcome to INNOVATION, IDSA’s quarterly design journal and one of the best places to learn about the practice of design. Every issue of INNOVATION reaches the IDSA membership, the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, universities, associations and design offices around the world.

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Here is the table of contents for Fall 2006 issue of INNOVATION. Articles highlighted in red are available to anyone as PDFs.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS

BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT 

  • RESQTEC G2 Cutter Getting to the Heart of Rescue Tools
    by Boudewijn Soetens
  • Business & Industrial Equipment Silver & Bronze Winners

COMPUTER EQUIPMENT

  • Lenovo Opti Desktop PC Valuing Innovation & Innovating Value
    by ZIBA Design
  • Talking Tactile Tablet Sensible Sight
    by Steven Landau
  • Computer Equipment Silver & Bronze Winners

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

  • 2 Seconds Quechua Watch This!
    by Jennifer Yankopolus 
  • DXL Protective Helmet Protection for All
    by Yves Béhar, IDSA
  • Eva Solo Tea-maker Tea-rrific
    by Claus Jensen and Henrik Holbaek
  • Kodak EasyShare V570 Dual Lens Digital Camera Harmony of Design & Digital Innovation
    by Eastman Kodak Compnay’s Corporate Design and Usability Division
  • Little Wing Take Flight
    by Ted Warren and Zac Warren
  • SignalONE™ Safety Vocal Smoke Detector Keeping Kids Safe
    by Mathieu Turpault, IDSA
  • Wall Mounted Digital Projector (AN110) Everything but the Popcorn
    by Tai-Bong Kim, Young-Soo Han, Jae-Won Lim and Kyoung-Joung Kim
  • Washing and Drying Machine NA-VR1000 Cleaning Up the Market
    by Tomoyuki Ishimaru
  • Consumer Products Silver & Bronze Winners

DESIGN EXPLORATIONS

  • Intelligent Energy ENV Bike Riding into the Future
    by Nick Talbot
  • Touch Messenger Teach Out
    by Li Qing Zhou

DESIGN STRATEGY

  • Sirius S50 Design Strategy Star Quality
    by ZIBA Design
  • Design Strategy Silver & Bronze Winners

ECODESIGN

  • SIM from Tricycle® Waste Not
    by Michael Hendrix
  • Echodesign Silver and Bronze Winners

ENVIRONMENTS

  • Ashes and Snow—The Nomadic Museum Roaming the Planet
    by Irwin Miller
  • Bloomberg LP Corporate Headquarters by the Numbers
    by Peter Hall
  • Construction Fence Typhoon-Tough
    by Hsieh Jung-Ya
  • Environments Silver & Bronze Winners

FURNITURE

  • CityWing Walk the Walk
    by Dany Snokx and Angus Dick
  • Think® A Brain and a Conscience
    by Bruce Smith
  • Furniture Silver & Bronze Winners

MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT 

  • Cybertech MAT Mechanical Advantage Tourniquate Saving Lives and Limbs
    by Royce Rumsey
  • Insulet OmniPod Insulin Personal Diabetes Management System Making Diabetes a Smaller Part of Life
    by Alan Mudd, IDSA
  • Siemens Symbia® Medical Imaging Systemns New Funcitiionality & A Fresh Look
    by Russell Kroll
  • Medical & Scientific Equipment Silver & Bronze Winners

PACKAGING & GRAPHICS

  • Pluma® Light as a Feather
    by Rui Sampaio de Faria and Pedro Cunha Monteiro

RESEARCH

  • Lenovo Visioneering Findng the Soul of the Market
    by ZIBA Design, Inc.
  • Packaging Graphics/Research/Transportation Silver & Bronze Winners

STUDENT DESIGNS

  • CityBike Amsterdam Why Sharing is Good For You : )
    by Jonathan Abarbanel and Katherine Bennett, IDSA
  • MIN.CHAIR Maximum Fun
    by Chul Min Kang
  • Student Designs Silver & Bronze Winners