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PIXEL announced as winner of Lexus Design Award under the mentorship of Snarkitecture

A closer look at this year's work under the theme 'Yet'

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Settling in to its fifth year, the Lexus Design Award is a global competition held annually, with an installation, presentation and winner announced at Milan Design Week. Over 1,100 entrants submitted ideas for this year’s award, exploring the theme of “Yet,” a philosophy meaning that the imagination required to combine two ideas that seem in contradiction can yield greater innovation. “With ‘Yet,’ we don’t compromise; …

Milan Design Week 2017: Jessica Fügler and Elena Manferdini

We speak with the Lexus Design Award finalist and her mentor about turning concepts into the tangible

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When Jessica Fügler was selected as a finalist for the 2017 Lexus Design Award multidisciplinary creative Elena Manferdini, one of the program’s mentors, was drawn to her very conceptual proposal. Neither Fügler nor Manferdini knew what was going to become of the idea, exploring color shifting. Most other finalists had fully-fleshed out product ideas for the competition—the theme of which is the broad “Static Yet …

Milan Design Week 2016: Lexus Design Award

We speak with the four finalists about their innovative concepts

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Continuing their mission to support young designers, Lexus held their fourth Design Award (whose theme was “anticipation”) at this year’s Milan Design Week. The Grand Prix award was presented to AMAM Design Collective, a Tokyo-based group started by designers Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani and Akira Muraoka. They were mentored by Max Lamb during the competition, and beat the three other finalists for their project, called …