This year, the selected jury was formed by Paty Nuñez an
Industrial Designer and National Design Award 2007, Wallpaper Editor´s Piergiorgio Cazzaniga, Hugo Macdonald, Melchor Andreu, Member of Andreu World's Board of Managers and as chairman of the juror Don Jordi Montaña,
ESADE Director, Chair of Design Management, Design management met on September 23rd to discuss and select the best projects from the over 300 received from all over the world.
They decided to give the second honorable mention to project "VERSO" of Marcello Zuffo from Florida (USA) because it´s emphasized for being a good low table easily convertible into a dinning table.
The first honorable mention was for the project "BACK AND TABLE DANCE " from Gregory CID from Paris because it calls the attention the return of an image of a classic product with new uses and a certain sense of humor.
The second prize was awarded in Spain, for the project "CLEANING CHAIR" of Estudio Alegre Design from Valencia. It shows ergonomic resolution in an ingenious form of the act to sit down with the use of the elastic canvas.
The first place winner of the 8th edition of the competition was for the project "PLYAM" from Yoshikazu Moritake from Tokyo (Japan). The jury has valued with a single gesture the continuity of a surface as if it was an impossible form. The design is solved with a shining and coherent form with the applied technology.