From a total of 4,698 entries from 60 countries, present and
former UID students from the Master
programme of Advanced Product Design and Bachelor programme in
Industrial Design were recognised with five awards in the 2016
edition of Red
Dot's Design Concept awards. Two of these were the prestigious
'Best of the Best' awards.
This year's wins ensured that the Umeå Institute of Design is
ranked 1st on Red Dot's list of the best schools in Americas and
Europe for the fourth time in five years. See the complete list
here
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The first Red Dot Concept award - Best of the Best was awarded
to Jens Rehammar (Sweden) for his project Orion
Dental Camera. Orion, which Jens developed during the term project
Let Philips come even closer,
provides dental monitoring of an entire family's oral health
without the anxiety, cost, hassle and time spent on going to the
dentist. Photography is used frequently in professional dental
care. The information from the images can be used to determine the
status of the enamel, possible cavities and inflammation in the
gums etc. The Orion Dental Camera empowers the user with easy usage
and cost-effective dental monitoring by adding to the knowledge
from both software analysis and expert assessment from the user's
dentist.
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The second Best of the Best award was awarded to
Alexander Turesson (Sweden) for his degree project
Spinetec, which he carried out in collaboration with Atlas Copco.
Spinetec is a visionary concept developed for the building
industry's emerging need of being able to produce concrete
structures and buildings in a more resource efficient and
environmental friendly way. By rethinking and challenging the
traditional way of producing reinforcement cages for concrete
structures, infused with inspiration from rapid prototyping
technologies and biomimicry, design opportunities opened up and
resulted in the Spinetec concept.
Spinetec makes it possible to produce more optimized and dynamic
building structures, directly on the building site, that are not
only stronger and lighter but also cheaper. The building material
will still be concrete and iron, but by using these in a slightly
different and more optimised way, the material consumption can be
reduced with up to 30%. On top of this the time, resources and
environmental impact when transporting pre-fabricated cages will be
avoided.
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Cindy Sjöblom (Sweden) was awarded for her
thesis project Tubie, a wearable
tube-feeding system for an active, spontaneous and social everyday
life.
Unlike traditional enteral nutrition systems, Tubie is designed
with a focus on the users in a home environment and their need for
a more active lifestyle and discreet usage in social environments.
The product family consists of six parts; a nutrition pump and a
wireless charging station, a nutrition bag and an external tubing,
a wearable waistband and an application for a smart device to be
able to control the pump.
Tubie is simply discreet due to its compact and wearable size
that allows the user to wear it underneath the clothing, as well as
controlling the pump via a smart device with an adaptable pre-alarm
that sounds like any other text message or ring tone.
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Rebecca Daum (Austria) received her award for
her POC screwdriver, which she designed as a part of a 5-week
Solidworks course during her first study year at the APD
programme.
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Simon Larsson (Sweden) received his award for
his Bachelor thesis project ABT a concept for
an autonomous baggage train for airports. The concept addressed the
fact that airport staffs working with baggage handling are lifting
up to 15 tonnes/day per person. Every bag gets lifted manually 6
times on its way from check in to the baggage drop band, which is
why the work is very repetitive and often leads to back, shoulder
and other kinds of physical problems. The ABT is a 9,5 meter long
snake like vehicle designed for one purpose: To reduce the amount
of manual lifting in the baggage handling process as much as
possible. It removes 4 of today's 6 manual lifting moments that
each checked in bag goes through and shortens the waiting time for
the passengers.
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