Best Product Design 2006
SLIDE SHOW
All the winning entries from this year's competition for Industrial Design Excellence Awards
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Design teams from Asia nabbed a quarter of this year's gold awards, up from 8 percent in 2005. What's more, the bar of excellence is moving ever higher
Slide Show: 2006 Idea Awards
Who took the medals at this year's Industrial Design Excellence Awards
Who has won the most medals of the past five Industrial Design Excellence Awards
The Japanese appliance-maker—home to Panasonic—has revamped a dull image and revived profits. Design chief Toyoyuki Uematsu explains how it happened
Diverse backgrounds and expertise made the best mix of professionals to choose this year's IDEA awards for best industrial design
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The Ziba-designed S50 aimed for simplicity and ease of use. The result: A satellite radio device that plays stored broadcasts, not live ones
To lure buyers for their new high-end towers, two Oregon developers took the radical step of turning the job over to a design firm
Meet designer Jerome Caruso, creator of the Sub-Zero fridge/freezer and modern status symbol, plus an array of other innovations
Slide Show: Slide Show: The Creations of Jerome Caruso
A Los Angeles realty firm adds a division that specializes in the promising housing form
The Korean giant makes some of the coolest gadgets on earth. Now it's reinventing itself to get even cooler
HP design chief Sam Lucente on the challenges of "orchestrating this complex ecosystem to create a wonderful customer experience"
IDEA 2006
Two-Second Shelter
Ace Shooter
Laptop Impossible
The Soul of a New Machine
Warehouse Wonder