Press Release
List of Innovation Seeds Digital Interactive Platform by Midori Yamazaki Is Granted the A' Design Award in Website and Web Design
Midori Yamazaki acknowledged for website and web design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that List of Innovation Seeds Digital Interactive Platform by Midori Yamazaki, designed for Institute of Industrial Science, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Website and Web Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding List of Innovation Seeds Digital Interactive Platform
The experience with Covid-19 has given mankind the seeds of innovation in many areas that will change the perspective and help people live better in the future from a positive point of view. Before the seeds are forgotten as the issue is resolved, a cross-disciplinary collaboration of designers, scientists, and others has developed a list of concepts and ideas with a design thinking approach and it is made available to everyone as an interactive digital platform that is designed to be easy to understand and search inspiration for future research.
About Midori Yamazaki
Creative Director / Artist / Researcher. Graduated From London Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design / MA Communication Design and worked at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. Specialized in Communication Design Including Digital, Graphic, Fashion and Space Design. As for a career background, took the role of Creative Director at adidas, NIKE, Facebook, Condé Nast, and Won multiple awards including Design Space Associate Award, Art Directors Club Award, NY Art Directors Club Award, and Type Directors Club Award.
Award Record
This recognition makes Midori Yamazaki a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Website and Web Design Awards
The A' Web Design Award is an international web design competition recognizing good web designs by leading web designers, coders and developers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to web designers, user interface designers, user experience designers and graphic designers from all countries. Entries typically include web design, portfolios, e-commerce sites, blogs, news websites and social media platforms. Awarded web designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/web
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/134957
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/134957
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!134957
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/304345
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/3Lu97F8
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- List of Innovation Seeds Digital Interactive Platform
- Function
- Digital Interactive Platform
- Category
- Website and Web Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- White Smoke, Black, White, Dark Slate Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Institute of Industrial Science
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Midori Yamazaki
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #134957
Credits
- Team
- DLX Design Lab, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. / Out of Blue Inc. and Satoshi Maruyama
- Image Credits
- Illustrator Satoshi Maruyama, Variations, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Our experience with COVID-19 has given mankind the seeds of innovation in many areas that will change the perspective and help us live better in the future from a positive point of view. Before the Seeds are forgotten as the issue is resolved, a list of concepts and ideas has been developed for future research, available online to all, by a cross-disciplinary collaboration of designers, scientists, and others.
- Inspiration
- COVID-19 has brought mankind fear and has fundamentally destroyed the preconceptions of the world. But on the positive side, it has changed the perspective and left people with seeds of ideas for a better life in the future. But what can we do to make sure that we don't forget the ideas we've had as the immediate problems come to an end?
- Research
- The experience with COVID-19 has given mankind the Seeds of Innovation in many areas that will change the perspective and help people live better in the future from a positive point of view. Before the Seeds are forgotten as the issue is resolved, a cross-disciplinary collaboration of designers, scientists, and others has developed a list of concepts and ideas with a design thinking approach, which will be made available to everyone as an interactive digital platform for future research.
- Challenge
- The interdisciplinary team of designers and researchers overcame a variety of problems and worked together to come up with concepts and ideas for the project through only online interviews and workshops in the midst of the corona disaster.
- Realization and Technology
- Design thinking with interdisciplinary collaboration, Heroku(cloud application platform), D3(javascript library), React(javascript library)
- Operation and Interaction
- As a digital interactive platform, two types of UX design were implemented to make it easier to search by level of understanding of science and technology. The first is the "Mind Map", a logical search, which allows users to logically find ideas by concept from the academic disciplines linked to the various laboratories. Another is the "Illustration Overview", where you can search using visual language, and even if you don't have a lot of expertise in science and technology, you can find ideas that interest you through illustrations.
- Project Duration and Location
- This interactive digital platform will be launched in Tokyo, Japan in April 2021 and will be accessible worldwide. It will be open to the public for a minimum of three years. (It will be extended wherever possible).
- Specifications
- It can be viewed on the internet. mac os 10.13.6 or higher recommended.
- Keywords
- UX, UI, intreractive, covid19
