INDEX: Award Finalists 2009

The finalists, taken as a group, offer unique proof of the wide reach of Design to Improve Life,
in terms of geography, challenges addressed, users and innovation.

<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >> WALLBREAKERS Play category Wallbreakers is a board game that supports learning and collaborative understanding through simple yet powerful visual metaphors. Read more WASTE RECOVERING SYSTEM Community category The Waste Recovering System is a new a new way of dealing with waste disposal and taking advantage of it through sustainable solutions that can prove to be profitable. Read more WATER FOR ALL Community category Singapore's multi-disciplinary design for a sustainable water supply aims to make the island city-state as nearly self-reliant as possible, through water recycling, rain harvesting, seawater desalination, and catchment augmentation initiatives. Read more WHALEPOWER TUBERCLE TECHNOLOGY Community category WhalePower Tubercle Technology offers retrofitted blades for wind turbines that increase efficiency and performance while reducing noise. Read more WOOLWORTHS "Making the Difference Through Design" Program Community category Woolworths “Making the Difference Through Design” Program is a project that supports design education in South Africa. Read more X STING WISH Work category  The X Sting Wish is a reconceptualization of a familiar but often intimidating device, the fire extinguisher. The design is mean to be friendlier, more intuitive, easier to operate, and thus able to help the user make more rational decisions.  Read more X-SYSTEM Body category The X-Finger® is the world’s first active-function artificial finger assembly designed specifically for partial finger amputees. The device allows users to regain complete control of the flexion and extension movements of an artificial finger in a self-contained device.   Read more YELLO STROM Home category The intelligent electricity meter transfers domestic power consumption data to the user’s computer, so the user can check online and in real time how much his fridge, his washing machine, or his hi-fi stereo system actually consume (in terms of watts, kWh, and money). Thus, the user has complete cost control and may easily find electricity guzzlers. The customer can control consumption and use electricity more efficiently. Read more ¡GuateAmala! Community category ¡GuateAmala!, is a vision and multi-year communications strategy designed to create optimism in Guatemala. Read more   << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>