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< About the International Design Competition 2007 >
We will not be having the International Competition this year.
Please wait for the official announcement of our competition in 2008.
Application and Work Submission have closed. Thank you for them a lot for The International Design Competition 2006.
This year's theme was "Lounge Chairs and Tables matching them".
The Judge was a product designer, Alberto Meda.
< Winners >
Grand-Prix
Tetsu Sumii / TS22
The work that won the Grand Prix Award , through necessary modifications that may be made in the future, will be commercialized as an additional work to the works presented by the designers for Next Maruni Project. The works are to be introduced in Milan in 2007.
Prize-winning works ::
Daniel Sousa / G Lounge
Comments from the Grand Prix Winner
I’m very happy and feel honored for my work to have received such a great ‘Grand Prix’ Prize in the ‘nextmaruni International Design Competition’ which was held on the theme, ‘Lounge Chair.’
This work of mine was completed by combining its functions and its composition in natural ways, which, I believe, is needed for making a good lounge-chair as a tool for relaxation. The reached form as a result of such process is, as you see, a simple one without any elaborated or showy fine ornamentation.
I’d like to express, here, my greatest appreciation to Mr. Alberto Meda and the staff members of nextmaruni Project for their granting me this great opportunity to introduce my own design-work, where lots of great designers present theirs. I’d also like to express my great surprise and honor for my work to be highly evaluated in such a great occasion.
The delight of being involved with nextmaruni Project with its principle to keep producing the same good design for a long time is really great and I’m sure that this precious experience will mean a lot to my future activities, too.
Thanks so much! - Tetsu Sumii
- Tetsu Sumii -
1971 : Born in Tokyo
1994 : Graduated from Musashino Art University
2006 : Working as a designer
General Comment
The "Easy chair and table" is the winner because of the simplicity of their physical structures and their visual lightness.
Back and seat with their intelligent cuts giving a springy feeling without loosing the strength are the main elements giving comfort.
I like it because I think that we need to be surrounded by simple objects, objects with a not loud image.
There were many other good works that were not selected for the prize because for their structural problems, their costs too high and their difficulty for quantity production.
To make a choice is always hard. Every work has my respect because I know how difficult it is to achieve an end, how difficult it is to solve the inherent complexity of things.
Thanks to everybody participating to this competition.
- Alberto Meda
Application and Work Submission have closed. Thank you for them a lot.
The theme in 2005 was Wooden Armchairs. The judge was a product designer, Jasper Morrison.
< Winners >
Grand-Prix
Jutamas Buranajade (Buranaraktham)+Piti Amraranga/o.d.a. / TASTE OF TEA
The work that won the Grand Prix Award , through necessary modifications that may be made in the future, will be commercialized as an additional work to the 11 works presented by 11 designers for nextmaruni Project. The 12 works are to be introduced in Milan in 2006.
Special Prize (*) - Yoshikazu Moritake / untitled
* Special Prize :: As it has the quality of the design that corresponds to the grand prix, the judge evaluated this special prize(the awardedwork) highly. However, as the special technique is necessary to commercialize and it would take time more than assumption taking to commercialization, we decided to commend it separately from other works.
Prize-winning works ::
Katsura Komiyama / U-chair
Tomohiro Shin / Round Chair
Atsushi Suguru / Leafy chair
Futoshi Iwai / L-Arm Chair
Akira Metoki / WA
Takashi Kirimoto / SOFFIO
Daniel Sousa / Bi
hinrichs+hein / butterfly-chair
dietmar sebel / felt wooden armchair
Comments from the Grand Prix Winner
This best opportunity allow us to be part of those professional designer's work regarded as our teachers whom we have personally appreciated their work. And very importantly, it is our first work presented under the global brand such NEXTMARUNI which we excitedly look forward to this work.
Many special thanks give to Mr. Jasper Morrison, the one who sees unique and strong determination of our work. The award, clearly, itself does make huge change to our attitudes bringing forceful motivation into every next work of us.
For us, Japanese Aesthetics shows real respect to nature spontaneously blending with its environment without superfluous decorations. Its concept gives importance to simplicity and beauty of detail which seemingly look ordinary or no design intervention.
According to the concept, we let "necessity" create direction of the form of our armchair "Taste of Tea" by remaining only necessary elements of armchair. At the very beginning, we even couldn't tell how the chair will look like, so, what we do is to choose the most blending and unity.
- Jutamas Buranajade (Buranaraktham)+Piti Amraranga/o.d.a.
- Miss Jutamas Buranajade (Buranaraktham) -
Born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1980.
Finished Bachelor's Degree in the field of Product Design at Silpakorn University in 2001 and Worked at Color party Object Co. Ltd. (pbb&o), Started being Freelance Designer in 2003, Worked for Propaganda Co. Ltd. in 2004.
*Won the second prize of The Gift Design Awards 2003
*Participated Furniture Design Workshop "The Regional Product Development Project 2005"
- Mr. Piti Amraranga -
Born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1980.
Finished Bachelor's Degree in the field of Visual Communication Arts at Silpakorn University in 2001 and Started business partnership and positioned as Design Director at Answer Sheet Co. Ltd.
*Won first prize of "The Thai-UK Alumni and Professional Network Logo competition 2000"
*Won the third prize of "Bangkok Art and Culture Centre Logo Competition 2005"
- CO-OPERATED PROJECTS -
In 2003, Jutamas and Piti have started working together under the group called "o.d.a." which the o.d.a. is also part of "Good Citizen" the Design collective Group joined by another 3 friends from the same university having different fields of work: Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Motion Graphic Designer attempting to work for some projects together.
o.d.a. clients include Alliance Francaise Bangkok, "anyroom"shop, "Plato"Furniture and so on.
o.d.a. was awarded as one of the 10 Finalists of "Tokyo Designers Block Competition 2003", presented in "Young and Talent Thai 2004" Exhibition, as well as o.d.a. work was publicized in "Tokyo Type Directors Club Annual 2004" (TDC)
We’d like to express our gratitude to those many who applied their works for International Design Competition, The theme of 2004 was "wooden small chairs".
< Grand-Prix >
The work’s title : JOIN
The producer : Sean Yoo (UNITED STATES)
"I am thrilled to have been chosen as a Grand Prix winner of the Designtope/NEXTMARUNI PROJECT Wooden Small Chairs Competition. I am also very honored that my project will be shown alongside the works of the world-famed designers whom I have studied and admired for such a long time.
I designed my chair, JOIN, with the concept of 'Ma: Mutual harmony created by the appearance of details'. I wanted to achieve the feeling of consideration and mutual harmony within a chair. Can I design a chair devoid of absolutism and a single dominating element? Can each part of the chair gracefully coexist? I wanted JOIN to answer some of these questions.
I hope with JOIN that I have successfully answered these questions and more importantly that I have represented unity, harmony, and coexistence which I admire so much in Japanese design aesthetics. Thank you very much for this great honor."
- Sean Yoo / the excerpt from DESIGNTOPE : Impression of Grand-Prix
< Prize-winning work >
Burkhard Daemmer(GERMANY) : y-chair
Bradley Price (UNITED STATES) : SLOT
Yoshimichi Matsuoka (Japan) : Mycha
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