Industrial Design Winners Announced
prostoalex writes "Every year Industrial Design Excellence Awards try to pick the products, whose usability, interface and design qualities are unmatched by rivals. 130 winners are announced in 12 distinct categories. Of special interest are Computer Equipment (congratulations, Samsung, Apple, Logitech and HP) and Consumer Products (Apple, Nokia and others)." (Earlier this month, we posted about Apple's selection of winners; there are quite a few others worth looking at, though.)
I'm VERY pleased, as an artist, to see the brush cleaner. The primary reason why I (and many other artists) do not like to use oil paints is that cleaning the brushes in solvent is a major pain in the butt, so seeing something that will do it for you opens up a whole new avenue.
Good design also fills a need. In this case, it fills the need of low frustration.
Now if someone will only invent a device that keeps the cats away from my easel...
Actually I am a lab rat in an elaborate plot to take over the world.