GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2009

On December 6th, Good Degign Award 2009 has been determined.
I've excited about a lot of good quality products with a tasteful design.

This is the best 15 products of "good design award 2009"

http://www.g-mark.org/english/archive/2009/best15/09A02016.htmlmark.org/english/archive/2009/best15/09A02016.htmlmark.org/english/archive/2009/best15/09A02016.htmlmark.org/english/archive/2009/best15/09A02016.html

They are clearly out of the ordinary.

Purpose of Good Design AwardsDesign leads to the creation of superior objects and conceptual embodiments. By addressing the environments that encircle our lives, design drives our own development and leads to a stronger and sounder society.Inheriting the Good Design Product Selection Program instituted in 1957 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Good Design Awards constitute a comprehensive, globally unmatched program of evaluating and advocating design in terms of its history and scale.Following on the success of over a half-century, the 2009 Good Design Awards seek the attainment of richly sustainable and prosperous living, industry, and society through scrupulously fair judging-grounded in humanitarian love-from perspectives of innovating lifestyle values, social values, and cultural values.

Some are very stylish disign, some are functionality superior.

This is one of 2009 awarded products. It's a plastic wrap, it has a really lot of ideas, the prevention of clinging, a paper edge, a marked for pushing point, intelligible explanation etc. Great!

Well, when I checked products, I saw the universal design products.

I'm also interested in it, but I didn't know the difference between them.
The Principles of Universal Design
"The authors, a working group of architects, product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers, collaborated to establish the following Principles of Universal Design to guide a wide range of design disciplines including environments, products, and communications."

1 Equitable use
2 Flexibility in use

3 Simple and intuitive

4 Perceptible information

5 Tolerance for error

6 Low physical effort

7 Size and space for approach and use

(from Center for Universal Design)

I've found out that Universal design is a movement as a study, and Good design is a commercial activity on purpose. Good design would grow in value by ensuring products quality, by the trusted institution.

This award would boost companies awareness of the design, and as a result, added up to offer a broader designs and enrich the quality of products.

Obtain a good price for fashionable designs. I'm convinced that Japanese design already rise to a world-class level.

However, I have a comment on it.

This website is the products of 2009 year awarded.

http://www.g-mark.org/award/search.html?result=true&lang=en

A good many products are selected every year, the total of awarded products is over 35,000!

It's too much. I'm afraid that it might loose the meaning of winning the award. I hope Good Design can keep the quality of the award.