The IDEA Awards are designed (forgive the pun) to celebrate the glorious designs that have been dreamt up within the last year, and includes designs from all cross-sections of consumerism. They’ve posted the award recipients of 2005 (all 158), including pictures for your viewing pleasure right here.
Some highlights for me (as I don’t necessarily agree with all of them):
- Timberland Travel Gear – some cool shoes man!
- Rubbermaid Paint Buddy – a great way to store that leftover paint.
- SHIFT Concept Bicycle – forget training wheels – we can engineer a better way.
- Snap Bracelet Concept – the future of remote controls.
- Leviton Acenti – a new take on the venerable light switch. But is it more usable?
- VIOlight Toothbrush – for the microbiologist in all of us.
- empower Concept Shoes – who needs to learn how to tie their shoes anymore?
Now tell me that design isn’t fun!