design & research awards
See below for our award winning design & research works
Spark Design Award | Silver | San Francisco, USA | 2017
Toy Box 2.0 is designed to provide the most venerable children from the poorest parts of the world living in the most challenging of circumstances, play opportunities through the innovative re-appropriation of existing aid packaging ubiquitously used by charities and NGOs to distribute relief aid to disaster hit areas in the BoP (Bottom of the Pyramid) context.
A' design award | Silver | Milan, Italy | 2017
The Toybox project was Awarded a Silver award for excellence in the Milan based, A' design awards. Awardees | James Self (supervisor), Kido Chang, Haemin Lee, Subin Kim & Sumin Lee.
Plant Diary | Spark Design Award | 2016
In collaboration with idp Lab UNIST, Plant Diary wins international Spark design award. Plant Diary is an interesting example of how technology and design aesthetic (product personality) may co-exist to offer an appropriate and desirable product. An example of how core product design competencies may interface with emergent technologies and their potential benefits.
Research Excellence Award | Design 2016 outstanding Contribution
Prof. Self is awarded the Outstanding Contribution honour at the Design Society conference, DESIGN2016 for his research paper entitled: Problem or solution focused? Ill-defined design problems and the influence of design ability.
Eat Up | Spark Design Award | 2016
Eat Up is a smart solution to provide data on eating habits and improve dietary health. Through the application of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and load sensors, the module design enables users to monitor and adjust children's dietary intake.
Reader Helper | Spark Design Award | 2016
With over 30 million adults suffering from dyslexia in the United States alone, Reading Helper is a smart product providing the extra support and confidence needed for dyslexia sufferers. Reading helper utilizes optical scanning head at the front of the product to scan text and more challenging passages as and when required by the user. The smart product then transmits the input text to the user’s mobile device application.
ToyBox | Core77 design awards | open & packaging design catagories | 2016
Through a design-driven innovation-in-use approach, ToyBox alters the meaning of an aid carton, from purely utilitarian and largely expendable cardboard box to an opportunity for engagement, play and discovery. In this it has the potential to provide much needed relief to children in the most challenging of circumstances through a transformational design approach.
Product (re)design of Boksoondoga | KSDS International Invitation design exhibition, Seoul | Special Prize | 2016
The design work, in collaboration with Boksoondoga, is awarded a Special Prize at the KSDS International Invitational design exhibition help at the Paper Gallery, Seoul, Korea. The design work was also featured in a new report by Korea's national MBC station (see below).
ToyBox, from utility to delight | KSDS International Invitation design exhibition, Seoul | Special Prize | 2016
ToyBox was awarded a Special Price at the KSDS International Invitational design exhibition, Seoul. The transformational design approach repurposes existing aid cartons to provide creative play and learning opportunities to the world's most vulnerable children.
Research Excellence Award | Research Excellence award of KSDS | 2014
Prof. Self, in collaboration with Dr. Eujin Pei (Brunel University, UK) are awarded a research excellence award from KSDS for their research paper entitled: reflecting on Design Sketching: Implications for Problem-framing and solution-focused conceptual ideation.
