11 Apr 2016 / The school and employees

And the winners are…

Two Design School Kolding designers and one collaboration project won at this year’s Danish Design Award
By Charlotte Melin

-We are proud to present this year’s first Danish Design Award winners and to see how well the winning designs illustrate what design can do.

These were the words of Christian Bason, who is CEO of the Danish Design Award. On Thursday 7 April the award was given out to 15 Danish design solutions.

In the category ‘Better Work’, Industrial Designer Hân Pham won for her Yellowone Handsafe, a wearable ”point of care” alcohol-based hand rub dispenser.

In the category ‘Feel Good’ Rosa Tolnov Clausen won for her project H.O.W. – Hands On Woven. Together with Blindes Arbejde (Work by the Blind) Rosa Tolnov Clausen has developed a tactile toolbox that includes the blind weavers in the design, development and production as co-designers. The H.O.W – Hands On Woven project also lets blind weavers create products that are viable in a commercial market.

And last but not least the project Capital of Children, which is an ambitious vision to develop a great, open-ended urban environment totally designed for creativity, learning and playfulness within the city of Billund – the home of LEGO. Design School Kolding collaborates with the Capital of Children on the Play User Lab, which offers development programmes for small and medium-sized companies and where companies, designers, practitioners and researchers work together to create optimum learning through play experiences for and with children using child-centred design methods.

Danish Design Award is an annual design event that celebrates the difference that design makes. Congratulations to all the winners.