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GRAND PRIZE WINNERS OF THE VDID/DSM SOMOS PROTOFUNCTIONAL® DESIGN AWARDS PRESENTED AT EUROMOLD 2002
04 December 2002 - DSM Somos
| During the course of a ceremony held at the design+engineering forum at the EuroMold 2002 fair, DSM Somos® and the VDID (Association of German Industrial Designers) publicly announced the winners in both the professional designers and students categories of the 2002 ProtoFunctional® Design Competition. |
Sponsored jointly by the VDID and prototyping materials specialist DSM Somos®, the international contest attracted interest and entries from around the globe to compete under the theme ‘AllesKönner’ (Truly Functional). Prizes were presented by the world renowned designer Professor Dieter Rams at the design+engineering forum design award event, EuroMold 2002 (Frankfurt 4-7 December). The awards were presented to:
- 1st prize (5.000 euro certificate for RP services, registration and accommodation for the VDID/DDV Congress 2003) professional designer category: Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot (Faltazi studio - Nantes, France) for the egg beater ‘Jellynoctil’. Imagination and functionality is unleashed, demonstrating the advantages and design freedom permitted by layer additive technologies, while guaranteeing perfection in omelette making. - 1st prize (5.000 euro certificate for RP services, registration and accommodation for the VDID/DDV Congress 2003, 1 year honorary membership of VDID/DDV) student category: Ozge Kandemir (Turkey) for ‘coffee bean’, a new twist in transforming Turkish coffee traditions into an experience which unites the flavours and cultures of the world.
The VDID/DSM Somos 2002 ProtoFunctional® Design competition The competition accepted entries from April to September 2002, open to both students and professional designers competing in separate contest sessions, with individual or group registration being allowed. At the close of the contest, registrations came from the four corners of the globe – from Canada and the Americas to Europe, Middle East and Asia. Competition entries were judged according to: unique application of free-form technologies, visual interest, originality, functionality and complexity of the design. The objects had to demonstrate the advantage of layer additive technologies, while taking into consideration the various benefits of presenting the prototype in the preferred ProtoFunctional® material of DSM Somos® for the specific application.
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About: DSM Somos
DSM Somos is an unincorporated division of DSM Desotech—a world leader in the development of UV-curable materials—and a member of the global DSM family.
DSM Somos is currently the world's second largest materials supplier to the rapid prototyping industry, providing stereolithography liquids and
selective laser sintering powders used for the creation of three dimensional models and prototypes directly from digital data. Somos' patented ProtoFunctional materials are used by a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, medical and telecommunications. DSM Somos has developed a full line of rapid prototyping materials that replicate the performance parameters of production materials, saving both time and money in new product development. From thermoplastic elastomers to polyethylene and polypropylene, DSM Somos has stereolithography and selective laser sintering technologies. The Somos business has been actively involved in the development of rapid prototyping materials since the late 1980s, from the introduction of the first commercial Somos stereolithography resin in 1992. DSM Somos is part of DSM Desotech, a leading innovative formulator and manufacturer of high quality ultraviolet and electron beam (UV/EB) curable materials. DSM Desotech is a business unit of DSM - an international chemicals and materials group headquartered in The Netherlands, with annual sales of EUR 8.1 billion and a work force of approximately 22,000 employees at more than 200 sites worldwide. DSM is active worldwide in life science and nutritional products, performance materials and industrial chemicals. The company specializes in innovative products and services that help improve the quality of life and DSM products are currently used in a wide range of end markets and applications such as human and animal nutrition and health, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, automotive and transport, coatings, housing and electrics & electronics (E&E). The group has annual sales (pro forma including the recent acquisition - renamed DSM Nutritional Products) of approximately EUR 8 billion and employs about 26,000 people around the world. Ranking among the global leaders in many of its fields, DSM is headquartered in the Netherlands, with locations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. |
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