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An Internet Competition where registrations, acceptance of applications, the announcement of results, exhibition of selected works, are all executed on the Internet. The Grand Prix Award winning works are merchandized and the winners are to receive the royalties generated from the sales performance of the works.

 


 
Grand Prix User Award
Title of Work: pwb
Name: aeronauts:
HIROSHI HIRAIWA / HIROYUKI KATO
Comment from DESIGNTOPE
User Voting (2001/11/15 - 12/15)

Total votes cast: 652 votes

Number 1 and the winner of the user price, with 132 votes obtained, is: pwb.

The number of votes for the second to 5th price are as following.

Work number 　　Votes
03 COELENTERATE 　123
13 Wearable Bag 　105
14 Wearable Business Bag 78
05 Sandbag 　　75

As Mr. Morisson, a member of the jury, recognized, the presentation works for user voting were of high quality this time. Day by day, the leader changed. But finally, "pwb" became No 1. Congratulations.

Secretariat of DESIGNTOPE

 
Profile and comment of winner


> profile
Hiroyuki Kato:
Born in Shiga in 1977
Learn a product design in Okayama University.
Engaging in a product design as in-house designer currently.

Hiroshi Hiraiwa:
Born in Osaka in 1978.
Learn a product design in Okayama University.
Designer as a free lance currently.

aeronauts:
Formed by Hiroyuki Kato and Hiroshi Hiraiwa.
"aerial walk at a height of 3centi meter"is our concept.
Grouping for relation with a person and a thing and suggest it.

> Comment on each work
Now, we are very glad to get this nice price, and the honor of it.
And we want to say thank you to the people, who were voting for our works.
Honestly, it was a glad surprise at the moment that we received a word of getting the price. When we are thinking about the future, it is a nice feeling.

We want to repay to the people, who are giving a big chance to us, and try to work much better.

It is our idea, that the bag is currying closet. Plywood was the best material which covered a gap between our theory and the reality.
Now - everybody knows - long time ago, plywood became the most popular material for the design of furniture. But - also everyone knows - it is in use too much today. Plywood is general-purpose, productive and it is strong.
We use these capabilities for the bag. It is a new field.
There are many problems about the bag made of "wood". But our opinion is, that the solution to this problem is "design". With getting this price, we are standing at the starting line. It is the beginning of a trying.

At the end of this comment, we want to say special thanks to the people of the secretariat of DESIGNTOPE, the people who selected our work and all people who worked on this tournament.
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