Check out the winners of this year's International Design Excellence Awards

• IDEA 2009: Designing a Better World

  Many of this year's International Design Excellence Award winners created products that could have a global impact

• Slide Shows: International Design Excellence Award Winners 2009

  Check out our interactive gallery of this year's IDEA winners—all 151 of them

• Best in Show: Nike's Scrappy Trash Talk Shoes

  The eco-friendly athletic shoe is made from scraps of leather and synthetic materials and attached to a recycled rubber sole

• Gold Award: Oxylane's Inflatable, 'Just Right' Jacket

  The Wed'ze Virtuous air-insulated ski jacket, an IDEA winner, ensures optimal warmth and comfort while riding the lift or racing down the slope

• Gold Award: Electric Car Recharging Station

  NewDealDesign and Better Place teamed up to create a car recharging tower called the Charge Spot, and won themselves an IDEA gold award

• Design Winners: The List

  The alphabetical list of all the 2009 International Design Excellence Award winners

• Video: Inside the IDEA Design Awards

  The 2009 International Design Excellence Awards attracted over 1,500 entrants from around the world. The 20 judges, from the likes of Dell and OfficeMax, had their work cut out for them

• Slide Show: The Best Designs of 2009

  Here are all of the Gold International Design Excellence Award winners for 2009

• Slide Show: 47 Silver Winning Designs

  Here are all of the Silver International Design Excellence Award winners for 2009

• Slide Show: 71 Bronze Award-Winning Designs

  Here are all of the Bronze International Design Excellence Award winners for 2009

• IDEA Awards: The Last Decade

  Over the last 10 years, IDEA's consumer-product winners have demonstrated good design from a number of companies, from Apple to LG

• Slide Show: 50 Coolest Products of the 21st Century

  Here are 50 award winners from the past 10 years of IDEA, the International Design Excellence Awards. See how they've stood the test of time

• Podcast: I Miss My Pencil

  Gold IDEA winner Kara Johnson discusses the ideas in the book of design concepts, I Miss My Pencil

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