2011 IDEA Winners: Our Gold Faves

We broke down our favorite projects from this year’s 2011 IDEA Awards winners: ten Bronze and six Silver award projects. Drumroll please…Below is our five picks amongst the Gold winners of this year’s 2011 IDSA IDEA winners. Congrats to all the winners!

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Scott Summit of Bespoke Innovations flips mass production on its side, using RP to produce highly individualized prosthetics for amputees. In a world of one-size-fits-all, Summit stands out by providing machined goods that will only fit you. Our interview with Summit was one of the highest-rated posts we produced in all of 2010.

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With the Life on Record Audio Line, TDK and Ziba Design brought the boombox back from the dead, and struck that perfect balance between a form that pays homage to the original and an object that’s undeniably new and fresh. This isn’t a design re-hash; it’s a design evolution, and one that seems to have skipped a few generations ahead.

Check out the case study for TDK’s Life on Record project from Paul O’Connor and Carl Alviani.

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