Kokuyo Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka City; President: Akihiro Kuroda) has announced the Kokuyo Design Award 2007 design competition, and is encouraging all those wishing to participate to submit their user-oriented product designs. The goal of the competition is to develop excellent ideas into commercial products. Applications are accepted from April 1 to June 30, 2007.

主题:
融通 Adaptable items
Please design something which is flexible and has large allowance, and which also can be applied by unexpected usage; accepted by various people; can be used at the destination; can be purchased without much money; can be upgraded; can be used even your figure has been changed. You don't have to design a combined instrument, such as an army knife. We expect something that fits the complexity of modern people's daily life with a sort of ideas.

类别:
Any product used daily either at home or in the work place (stationery, furniture, household items, etc.)

报名日期:
April 1, 2007_May 31, 2007

提交截止:
Works must be arrived between April 1 and June 30, 2007

评审:
Shunji Yamanaka (Jury Chair, Designer/President of LEADING EDGE DESIGN)
Oki Sato(Designer/President of nendo)
Fumie Shibata(Industrial Designer/President of Studio S)
Manabu Mizuno(Art Director/President of good design company)
Akihiro Kuroda (President, Kokuyo Co., Ltd.)

奖金:
Grand Prize: 2 million yen
Second Prize (4 winners):500,000 yen each
Special Prize (5 winners): 100,000 yen each
*Prize amounts are subject to income tax, and is the responsibility of the
recipients

主办:
Kokuyo Co., Ltd.

协办:
Axis Design Magazine

详情查询http://www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/

Inquiries:
Kokuyo Design Award office
5-2-2 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0005, Japan
Fax : +81-3-3836-7310 MAIL: award@mrk.kokuyo.co.jp