Lexus Design Award

Lexus has announced the 12 winners of the second annual Lexus Design Award, an international design competition that targets up-and-coming innovators from around the world.

From the total entries, 12 winners have been selected and, among them, two entries will create prototypes of their designs in close collaboration with one of two assigned mentors, Arthur Huang and Robin Hunicke. The two prototypes together with panel displays of the other 10 winning entries will be exhibited in the Lexus space at Milan Design Week in April.

The winning works that will be prototyped are: Iris by Sebastian Scherer from Germany (mentor Robin Hunicke), an handblown glass lamp with iridescent shimmering coating; Macian by James Fox from UK (mentor Arthur Huang), a kit designed to aid the experience and curiosity of den building.

The others winning works are: Crane, by group Magenta (Ronen Bavly and Ornit Arnon) from Israel, a book library that creates a game of balance; Dicecover by Mansour Ourasana from USA, a playful tool that invites people to learn more about our planet; E-Wheel by Phuoc Nguyen, from Vietnam, an integrated electric wheel designed to be all-in-one; Flynote by Aldo De Carlo (Italy) and Judith Ccassa Caceres (Peru), which summarizes 150 years of musical evolution in just one product; Game of Space by IAO architecture (Nan Lei, Xinyi Wang) from China, a space of ambiguity based in the flow of time; Joy Carpet by Meng-Ling Yang, from Taiwan, an interactive carpet that helps babies to develop their potential; Ooho! by Skipping Rocks Lab (Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, Pierre Pasalier and Guillaume Couche), an organic membrane packaging for liquids; Pause by Stuti & Rajeev, from India, a timepiece that redefines the perception of time telling; Piximot by Mamikim & Co (UK), an interactive display formed from rotating wooden cubes; Sky Lighthouse, by Yoshiki Matsuyama (Japan), a lighting piece that produces the color of the sky as a natural phenomenon.