Lexus: These are the winners of the Design Award 🎥
COMPETITION After receiving nearly 2070 entries from 63 countries and regions, a panel of three judges has selected the winners of the "Lexus Design Award 2023."
The proposals that have now been awarded prizes deal with solving various social problems. The winning quartet will take part in a mentoring program and present their prototypes in the spring.
Humidifier from the printer
Pavels Hedström, a Swede living in Denmark, has designed Fog-X (center gallery), a mobile habitat that can produce drinking water from fog. From Jiaming Liu of China comes a humidifier made from recycled ceramic waste (gallery left), produced in a 3-D printer.
Help for visually impaired people
"Touch the Valley" (gallery on the right) is a project by Temporary Office from the USA: The 3-D contour puzzle helps visually impaired people learn about the physical environment. It was designed by Vincent Lai (Singapore) and Douglas Lee (Canada).
Koreans Kyeongho Park and Yejin Heo have designed their Zero Bag, a clothing packaging that dissolves in water and acts as a detergent that can remove all chemicals from fabric.