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------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESIGNTOPE, Japanese design information provider held the "Business Bag" design competition, and announced the result. They invited Jasper Morrison to be a juror and received a total of 85 wonderful works. Their planning committee pre-selected 23 works and exhibited them on the official website for popular vote. Jasper Morrison selected "The Womb" by HASHIMOTO KOUMEI for the Designtope Award. He gives a comment on this work, "Great idea, highly original, very simple to produce, easy in use and with very strong identity." Also Grand Prix User Award was given to "pwb" by Earo Notes which receives the highest votes by users from the public. This will be produced for retail porpose. Now They are plannning next competition. Theme is "A chair for exterior". Detail information will be announced in the end of January, 2002. http://compe.designtope.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- back to the newsstand
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