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Dylan Seat

Red dot award: product design 2009

Dylan showcases a crisp and unique style. Leather and steel are seamlessly joined together through “circles”.

The double-layered round seat and the surrounding steel round rod cover all signs of assembly to achieve unity in space. Such a design also guarantees sensibility in mechanical structure of the materials and a refreshing sense of comfort.

Out of the simplistic design comes a mood of relaxed beauty.

The film about the red dot award: product design is 4.25 minutes long.

You can download it here direct as an MPEG file.

With more than 11,000 submissions from 61 countries, the international “red dot design award” is the largest and most renowned design competition in the world. It is divided into the “red dot award: product design”, the “red dot award: communication design” and the “red dot award: design concept.” The award-winning products are put before an international public in the red dot design museum.

Each year an international jury reviews and evaluates the submitted products according to criteria such as degree of innovation, functionality and the formal quality. This ensures the seriousness of the competition and its international acceptance. The group of jurors is made up of renowned designers and design experts from all over the world who reach their decisions on which designs are good enough to receive a red dot award independently and impartially. The constellation changes from year to year and guarantees a high degree of objectivity and reliability.

The award is as a seal of quality; it stands for membership of the best in design and business. The winners receive the awards in person on the occasion of the gala ceremony in the Essen Aalto-Theater, which is witnessed by more than 1,200 guests. In addition, the annual “red dot award: product design” also rewards one design team with the special title of design team of the year. The award, the “Radius” challenge trophy, has already been received by the design teams of many renowned companies, including LG Electronics, adidas, Apple, Mercedes-Benz, Nokia, Philips, Siemens and Sony.

Red dot stands for belonging to the best in design and business. The red dot is an internationally recognized quality label for excellent design that is aimed at all those who would like to qualify their

business activities with the help of design. The qualification is based on the principle of selection and presentation. Outstanding design is selected in the international design competition ‘red dot design award’ by competent expert juries in the fields of product design, communication design, and design concepts.

The winners of the red dot design award can choose from the many presentation options; they include the glamorous awards presentations, which have long found their place in the design year; yearbooks that are distributed worldwide; exhibitions in the red dot design museums in Germany and Singapore; touring exhibitions all around the world; the presence at www.red-dot.de; and much more.

Welcome to the world of the red dot!