RKS Honored with Seven GOOD Design Awards

Published December 15, 2011 by RKS Admin

RKS Honored with Seven GOOD Design Awards

(Chicago) RKS was honored this month to receive Seven Good Design Awards across the medical, electronics, and personal categories of the prestigious awards competition. Honored designs ranged from laboratory automation solutions to reusable water bottles, a new smart phone for the blind, to a mobile-optimized ventilator and an improved dental extrusion syringe.

Founded by Ray and Charles Eames, for more than 60 years GOOD DESIGN has bestowed international recognition upon the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.  The awards have been conferred annually by the Chicago Athenaeum since 1950.

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A New Star Takes the Stage

Published November 26, 2011 by RKS Admin

A New Star Takes the Stage

RKS Design and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation today announced the debut of Gig Stand, now available at music retailers nationwide. With its small size, collapsible but durable construction, and weighing little more than the average lead cable, Fender® Gig Stand is perhaps the decade’s most refreshing innovation in guitar stand mobility. The sleek and sturdy foldable design prevents damage to valuable instruments while saving artists time and precious ‘case space.’ A distinctive departure from bulkier instrument stands with trapeze-like construction and screw tighteners, Fender® Gig Stand is the perfect attendant for every musician, and now has a back-stage pass to join the entourage everywhere.


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Kor Aura Wins 2011 iF Design Award

Published October 31, 2011 by RKS Admin

Kor Aura Wins 2011 iF Design Award

RKS’ most recent design collaboration with long-time partner KOR Water, the Aura(r) hydration vessel, was released this year and has already been recognized with a 2011 International iF Design Award.

Aura is the lightest and most affordable offering in KOR’s line of premium eco-friendly hydration solutions, retaining all the key design attributes customers have come to love from the brand. Winners were determined by and international jury of design experts, and the competition was again hosted by iF International Forum Design GmbH, part of iF GmbH. Open to manufacturers and designers, the annual iF Product Design Awards honor all areas of product design, and have become a globally recognized seal of design excellence.

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2011 Spark Awards Announced

Published October 27, 2011 by RKS Admin

2011 Spark Awards Announced

The 2011 Spark Awards were announced this month by Executive Director Peter Kuchnicki and RKS is honored to be recognized with two winning designs—an overall competition winner for Nuance™ and a Bronze Award for our new smartphone design for the blind.

RKS’ design for Discus Dental (Philips) was an awarded design solution that helps dental assistants perform their jobs more effectively, while saving time and money in the process of extruding Discus’ new universal composite used for tooth repairs and fillings.  The Orion-18 is a new smart phone designed for the blind community, that will soon bring the world to people’s fingertips with the help of great design and integrated features in one wireless solution.

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12th Annual National Design Awards

Published September 30, 2011 by RKS Admin

12th Annual National Design Awards

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum celebrated outstanding achievement in design this week with it’s 12th annual National Design Awards Program. RKS is proud to have been recognized by the National Design Awards for the firm’s recent portfolio of work in product design, and honored to be a 2011 finalist following the firm’s first entry into the competition.

The National Design Awards were conceived to honor the best in American design, and the program works annually to demonstrate the importance of design while increasing awareness of its impact on the quality of daily life. “The work of this year’s National Design Awards winners represents extraordinary solutions to the design problems central to the landscape of daily life, from how we dress, shape our personal and private spaces, frame communication and interact with the world at large,” said Bill Moggridge, Director of Cooper-Hewitt.

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