JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGNERS' ASSOCIATION

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JID Award

	JID Award

	Acknowledged Achievement

SERIESED WORKSHOP "CHAIRS"

organized and run by NOBORU INOUE

Review:
Inoue had run his private workshops extensively dedicated to survey chair design and instructed the subjects on ergonomics, drawing full-scaled working drawings and up to making out chairs. The long run series of Inoue's workshop interested and corresponded with not only the design minded individuals but also those from diverse fields of professions. It is highly acknowledged that the workshops were attended more than one hundred and fifty participants under Inoueﾕs leadership based on his firm foresight and strategic policy.

	Acknowledged as a Fine Work

Poco a poco

Review:
This is a fine collaboration work-out, a supportive device for those who have difficulty in walking, though the prototype of project seems to need some further improvements in the details. It is worth noted that this kind of collaboration between a local government, an academic institute, designers and manufactures was recognized as one of JID Awarded projects which aimed to create a devise fine and easy to use, and could hopefully raise the social interest in the enlightenment of those welfare devises of quality and refined.
The jury believe that design could take a part of the roll for the benefit of social design.

THE GENERAL REVIEWS BY THE GUEST JURORS:

Yoshio Asakura,
General Producer of [LIVING design]

I have an impression regarding the evaluation of JID Award 2006 that the younger designers put up good jobs challenging and fresh in the space category as well as in the industrial category. It is remarkable to recognize that the ideas or projects created by those young designers have been actually accepted as either in the commercial spaces and in the product design.
It is expected that their fresh and promising sensitivity could be displayed in the public, which would help reducing the gap between living and design. I hope much from them further integration of their sensitivity.

Kengo Kuma, architect

The result of JID Award evaluation brought out to prove that the border between
architecture, interior and industrial design had been ceasing to exist as a matter of fact. The extinction of this border has been realized lucidly and lightly by the exquisite examples prior to the assertion by words, beside, this extinction implies, smells a sort of revolution in our living. I sensed the smell specifically in those entries including CANVAS by Nendo.

Wakato Onishi, journalist at the Asahi

Interior, that is "Inside". On the conference table however, the jury focused generally how far "the interior" retained the social extension and universality in its context. In case of "CANVAS", the Grand Prize was awarded due to its brilliant dual solutions by answering to the public concern say the low cost construction and the creation of space by cloths which embraces universality of material. I envisage as a journalist being "outside" the field of design that those solutions could be a few measures when the priorities should be ranked in the world of excessively various design.

Reiko Kawakami, JID President

The annual JID Award was re-organized to be held biennially since the JID Award 2006 Biennial, which achieved the substantial results. It is noted that the entries to the JID Award ranged widely from the youngsters to the veterans, which indicates the valuable history of the JID Award having been brought out along with the course of JID's history.
Due to the globalization of design, design is generally asked to be accepted and loved by people beyond the boundaries of the globe. Under these present circumstances, the awarded projects could be recounted as the Japanese design with fresh sensitivity and hopefully available to the world.

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