Lexus Design Award 2018 Grand Prix Winner Announced At Amazing 'LIMITLESS CO-EXISTENCE' Exhibition In Milan
Lexus Design Award 2018 Grand Prix Winner Announced At Amazing 'LIMITLESS CO-EXISTENCE' Exhibition In Milan
MILAN, April 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Lexus International today announced the Grand Prix winner of the Lexus Design Award 2018 - Testing Hypotheticals by Extrapolation Factory - bringing the sixth edition of the Award to a pinnacle of excitement. The 2018 Lexus Design Award drew a record 1319 entries from 68 countries under the theme of "CO-". The winner was selected by a group of design luminaries: Sir David Adjaye, Shigeru Ban, Paola Antonelli, Birgit Lohmann, Alice Rawsthorn, and Yoshihiro Sawa.
Lexus passionately believes in the power of design to change the world. For this reason, Lexus nurtures and celebrates up-and-coming designers who harness the power of design to shift perspectives, communicate ideas and stimulate the imagination to shape a better future.
"This year's winner permeates the current thinking about the role of design in our evolving and technologically shifting societies. Products played less of a role, and design education/teaching and thinking are at the forefront. How citizens and designers interact with products, processes and future is increasingly critical to mediating this influence of design in our increasingly future-orientated and technologically evolving world. The chosen design shows methods and techniques for engaging the public and designers in role playing possible futures and negotiating the influences of our technological world," said David Adjaye, Lexus Design Award 2018 judge and architect.
Elliott P. Montgomery of Extrapolation Factory commented, "It was truly fantastic, and the experience was incredible to have worked with our mentors Formafantasma. We could not have done this without the support of Lexus."
Since 2013, the Lexus Design Award has supported the next generation of designers from around the world. For our sixth year, 2018, the Award's theme is "CO-", a Latin prefix meaning with or together. Lexus believes that great design can ensure the harmonious coexistence of nature and society. In that sense, "CO-" is an approach that allows the brand to explore its true potential and that of the environment by creating new possibilities through collaboration, coordination and connection.
From among the wealth of "CO-" design submissions, our elite judging committee has selected 12 finalists, four to be prototyped and eight to be shown as display panels. These will be revealed to the international design community at Lexus' "LIMITLESS CO-EXISTENCE" exhibition, held 17-22 April 2018 in the Cavallerizze in Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci during Milan Design Week, the world's premiere design event.
For this exhibit, Lexus has called upon Japanese architect Sota Ichikawa to be the overall concept space designer. In the main installation, Ichikawa has used innovative methods to represent the ultimate experience of LIMITLESS CO-EXISTENCE. The Lexus LF-1 Limitless concept, earlier introduced at the North American International Auto Show, is also featured using Ichikawa's unique method.
ABOUT LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2018 PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Following the strong engagement of the public with the Lexus Design Award displays in the past, Lexus has created the "LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2018 PEOPLE'S CHOICE" allowing even more interaction than ever before. The winner is determined by votes cast on the website from 16 to 21 April and announced on 22 April, the event's final day.
More information can be found on:
Lexus Design Award: www.lexusdesignaward.com
Lexus Design Event: www.lexusdesignevent.com
Official hashtags: #LexusDesignAward; #LexusDesignEvent;
Lexus Design Award 2018 Entries Selected for Prototype Development:
Title CO-RKs
Designers Group name: DIGITALAB
(Citizenship) Brimet Fernandes da Silva (Portugal)
Ana Trindade Fonseca (Portugal)
Country of
residence Portugal
Description A generative system connecting cork
thread, a sustainable material and
computational process that generate
design products.
Mentor Lindsey Adelman
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Title Honest Egg
Designers Group name: aesthetid
(Citizenship) Paul Yong Rit Fui (Malaysia)
Jaihar Jailani Bin Ismail (Malaysia)
Country of
residence Malaysia
Description Connecting technology and new design
interface to show egg's edibility.
Mentor Jessica Walsh
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Title Recycled Fiber Planter
Designer Eriko Yokoi (Japan)
(Citizenship)
Country of
residence Japan
Description Co-fusion textile and green design to
repurpose used clothes.
Mentor Sou Fujimoto
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Title Testing Hypotheticals
Designers Group name: Extrapolation Factory
(Citizenship) Christopher Woebken (Germany)
Elliott P. Montgomery (USA)
Country of
residence USA
Description A collaboratively imagined test site
that explores speculative
relationships between society,
technology and the environment.
Mentor Formafantasma
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Lexus Design Award 2018 Panel Exhibits:
Title CO-Living
Designers Group name: Khoa Vu and Wilson Harkhono
(Citizenship)
Khoa Vu (Vietnam), Wilson Harkhono
(Indonesia)
Country of residence USA
Description A new housing system that inspires people
to CO-.
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Title COmer
Designers Group name: Sistema Simple Studio
(Citizenship)
Kaleb Cardenas Zavala (Mexico), Lucas
Margotta Meneses (Chile), Diego Gajardo
Caldera (Chile), Carlos Sfeir Vottero
(Chile)
Country of residence Chile
Description Set of clay containers that
collaboratively accompany the process of
cooking, eating and sharing bread.
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Title Fabric Block
Designer Myung Duk Chung (South Korea)
(Citizenship)
Country of residence South Korea
Description Co-merging softness and hardness, a
project that explores new ways to
fabricate various objects.
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Title GRABBY
Designers Group name: I DEAL
(Citizenship)
Nadezhda Abdullina (Russia) Marina Egorova
(Russia)
Country of residence Russia
Description A co-adapting cutting board for people
with special needs.
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Title Gravity Pen
Designer Jon Simmons (USA)
(Citizenship)
Country of residence USA
Description A tool connecting virtual reality to
physical experience, by simulating weight
and touch.
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Title PAPER SKIN
Designer Hiroki Furukawa (Japan)
(Citizenship)
Country of residence Japan
Description Connecting overlapping layers of paper to
create a new material rich in color.
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Title Primavera
Designer Yael Reboh (Israel)
(Citizenship)
Country of residence Israel
Description To coalesce veneer and fabric laminated
creates a unique armchair that stimulates
imagination.
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Title VNWALLS GARDEN
Designers Group name: VNWALLS
(Citizenship)
Nguyen Tien Phuoc (Vietnam), Pham Anh Tuan
(Vietnam),
Truong Ngoc Phu (Vietnam)
Country of residence Vietnam
Description An aeroponic planting machine that
contributes to modern agriculture and
farming methods.
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Judges:
Sir David Adjaye / Architect
Sir David Adjaye OBE is the
principal and founder of Adjaye
Associates. Born in Tanzania to
Ghanaian parents, his broadly
ranging influences, ingenious use
of materials and sculptural ability
have established him as an
architect with an artist's
sensibility and vision. His largest
project to date, the $540 million
Smithsonian Institute National
Museum of African American History
and Culture, opened on the National
Mall in Washington DC in fall of
2016 and was named Cultural Event
of the Year by the New York Times.
In 2017, he was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II and was recognized as
one of the 100 most influential
people of the year by TIME
magazine.
Shigeru Ban ?Architect
Born in Tokyo in 1957. Graduated
from the Cooper Union. Started
working for Arata Isozaki &
Associates in 1982. Founded Shigeru
Ban Architects in 1985. Became
consultant to the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) in 1995. Established the
NGO, Voluntary Architects' Network
(VAN) in the same year to support
disaster relief. Selected works
include Nicolas G. Hayek Center,
Centre Pompidou- Metz, and Oita
Prefectural Art Museum. Recipient
of multiple awards, including
Grande Médaille d'or de l'Académie
d'architecture (2004), Arnold W.
Brunner Memorial Prize in
Architecture (2005), Grand Prize of
AIJ (2009), Honorary Doctorate from
Technische Universität München
(2009), L'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres, France (le grade
d'officier) (2010), Auguste Perret
Prize (2011), Art Prize from the
Japanese Agency for Cultural
Affairs (2012), L'Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres, France (le grade de
commandeur) (2014) and JIA Grand
Prix (2016). Served as Professor at
Keio University (2001-2008),
Visiting Professor of Harvard
University GSD and Cornell
University (2010), and currently
Professor at Kyoto University of
Art and Design (2011-), Guest
Professor at Keio University (2015-
). Laureate of the 2014 Pritzker
Architecture Prize.
Paola Antonelli /Senior Curator
MoMA
Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of
Architecture & Design at The Museum
of Modern Art, as well as MoMA's
founding Director of Research &
Development. Her goal is to promote
design's understanding, until its
positive influence on the world is
universally acknowledged. Her work
investigates design's impact on
everyday experience, often
including overlooked objects and
practices, and combining design,
architecture, art, science and
technology. She has curated
numerous shows, written several
books, and lectured worldwide. She
has taught at the University of
California, Los Angeles; the
Harvard Graduate School of Design;
and the MFA programs of the School
of Visual Arts in New York. She is
currently working on an exhibition
on the 111 garments that changed
the world; on Design Bites, a book
about foods from all over the world
appreciated as examples of design;
and on a book collecting her essays
on the different fields of
contemporary design.
Birgit Lohmann /Chief Editor of
designboom
Born in Hamburg, Lohmann studied
industrial design in Florence
before moving to Milan, where she
has lived and worked since 1987.
She worked as a designer and
product development manager for a
number of Italian architects and
master designers. She has also
worked as a design historian for
justice departments and
international auction houses. As a
researcher and lecturer, she has
conducted seminars on industrial
design at a number of prestigious
international universities. In
1999, she co-founded designboom,
where she is currently the Chief
Editor, Head of Educational
Programming and Curator for
International Exhibitions.
Alice Rawsthorn / Design Commentator
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning
design critic, who has written
about design for the New York Times
for over a decade. Her latest book
Hello World: Where Design Meets
Life explores design's impact on
our lives. Her next book, Design as
an Attitude, is to be published in
May 2018 as a survey of design
today. Alice speaks on design at
important global events including
TED and the World Economic Forum's
annual meetings at Davos,
Switzerland. Based in London, she
is chair of trustees of the
Chisenhale Gallery and the
contemporary dance group Michael
Clark Company, and a trustee of the
Whitechapel Gallery. Alice was
awarded an Order of the British
Empire (OBE) for services to design
and the arts.
Yoshihiro Sawa /President of Lexus
International
Yoshihiro Sawa
graduated with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Engineering and
Design from Kyoto Institute of
Technology. He has held a number of
design-related positions since
joining Toyota Motor Corporation in
1980, including Chief Officer of
Global Design, Planning Division.
He became President of Lexus
International in April 2017.
Mentors:
Lindsey Adelman / Designer
Decades before founding her eponymous studio, Lindsey
Adelman was already a designer -just not publicly
so. First, she was simply a precocious, curious
child, building endlessly in the backyards of
suburban New York, uncertain of how to make a career
of it; then, an English student at Kenyon College;
then, on the editorial staff at The Smithsonian
Institution. Fortunately, there, her accidental
discovery of industrial design -in the literal form
of a fabricated foam French fry - propelled her off
to RISD to make a life of that childhood passion.
Today, from her studios in New York and Los Angeles,
she manipulates light to create fixtures that are as
emotive as they are physically transformative -
objects imbued with their own history and meaning,
often unselfconsciously so, that give color and
texture and depth to the world around them.
Formafantasma / Designer
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are Studio
Formafantasma, Italian designer duo based in
Amsterdam, Netherlands. They have developed a
coherent body of work characterized by experimental
material investigations and explored issues such as
the relationship between tradition and local
culture, critical approaches to sustainability and
the significance of objects as cultural conduits.
Their work has been presented and published
internationally and museums such as New York's MoMA,
London's Victoria and Albert, New York's
Metropolitan Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, the
Textiel Museum in Tilburg, the Stedelijk Museum 's-
Hertogenbosch, MUDAC Lausanne, the Mint Museum of
Craft and Design in North Carolina and the MAK
Museum in Vienna have all acquired Formafantasma's
designs for their permanent collections. Andrea and
Simone are lecturing and heading workshops in
various Universities and Institutions. Currently
teaching at the 'Well Being' and 'Contextual Design'
Departments of the Design Academy Eindhoven and they
are at the head of the Design bachelor at MADE
Program in Siracusa, Italy.
Sou Fujimoto / Architect
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. Graduated
from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of
Engineering at Tokyo University, he established Sou
Fujimoto Architects in 2000. In 2016, he has won the
1st prize for"Pershing", one of the sites in the
French competition called 'Réinventer Paris',
following the victories in the Invited International
Competition for the New Learning Center at Paris-
Saclay Ecole Polytechnique and the International
Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier in
2014. In 2013, he became the youngest architect to
design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London.
His notable works include; "Serpentine Gallery
Pavilion 2013" (2013), "House NA" (2011), "Musashino
Art University Museum & Library" (2010), "Final
Wooden House" (2008), "House N" (2008) and many
more.
Jessica Walsh / Designer
Jessica Walsh is a designer & art director working as
a partner at NYC based design firm Sagmeister &
Walsh. She lectures about design at creative
conferences and universities internationally and
teaches design at The School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Her work has won numerous awards from most major
design competitions including Type Director's Club,
Art Directors' Club, SPD, Print, New York Festivals,
D&AD, TDC Tokyo, and Graphis, among many others. She
has been awarded Forbes "30 under 30 top creatives
designing the future" and Ad Age's "Top 10 Visual
Creatives". Her work has been featured in numerous
books & magazines. Clients include the Museum of
Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, Jay-Z, Snapchat,
Barneys, The New York Times, Levis, Adobe, and The
School of Visual Arts. She hosts mentorship programs
for creative women through her initiative Ladies,
Wine & Design; which has spread to over 110 chapters
around the world. Her blog & book "40 Days of
Dating" received over 10 million readers and is
currently being turned into a movie by Warner
Brothers.
ABOUT LEXUS DESIGN AWARD
First launched in 2013, the Lexus Design Award is an international design competition that targets up-and-coming creators from around the world. The award seeks to foster the growth of ideas that contribute to society by supporting designers and creators whose works can help to shape a better future. It provides a unique opportunity for four finalists to work with globally recognized designer as a mentor to create prototypes of their designs, and then exhibit them at one of the design calendar's most important events.
ABOUT LEXUS
Lexus launched in 1989 with a flagship sedan and a guest experience that helped define the premium automotive industry. In 1998, Lexus introduced the luxury crossover category with the launch of the Lexus RX. The luxury hybrid sales leader, Lexus delivered the world's first luxury hybrid and has since sold over 1 million hybrid vehicles.*
A global luxury automotive brand with an unwavering commitment to bold, uncompromising design, exceptional craftsmanship, and exhilarating performance, Lexus has developed its lineup to meet the needs of the next generation of global luxury guests, and is currently available in over 90 countries worldwide.
Lexus associates/team members across the world are dedicated to crafting amazing experiences that are uniquely Lexus, and that excite and change the world.
*(1,263,055 units as of December 2017)
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