MUJI Award
Muji is launching an international design competition. A project calling for entries from all over the world of designs that shake up and stir people. The results will be announced at the Milan Salone. Our first theme is “SUMI”, We’re asking you to focus your design, not on the major pieces that are central to a room, rather to observe the extremes of the space, the unexplored areas of consciousness. We invite anyone in the world to propose a new Muji product!
lisa wrote:
Honestly, was the Muji Competition 01 some sort of joke?? All of the products that were chosen have almost 0 functionality (especially the ‘gold’ winner) and all of them are not new ideas. The only winning product that was even remotely useful was the extension cord ‘their destination my departure’. Also I would like to comment on the fact that only Japanese (and one participant from Taiwan) were selected as the winners in all categories. If Muji is only going to chose winners from it’s own country why not make this competition a local thing instead of opening it up to the world forum? It’s a little off putting to think that Muji believes that the only ‘worthy’ product designers come out of Japan. Maybe the terms ‘innovation’ and ‘functionality’ should be studied more closely by the judges next time.
Posted on 24-Nov-06 at 2:08 pm | Permalink