

hands on door handles competition results
the winners of our recent designboom competition ‘hands on door handles‘ in collaboration with colombo design,
were announced in a presentation at la triennale di milano on may 31st, 2011.
6209 designers from 103 countries participated and four overall winners were chosen – one of which was selected as part of a
freestyle category that welcomed more experimental projects which still matched the technical requirements cited in the brief.
the 4 winning projects were introduced by a lecture given by french designer and architect jean-marie massaud under the title of
‘small details make up the big picture’.
the jury was composed of:
jasper morrison, industrial designer
reiser + umemoto, architects
birgit lohmann, editor-in-chief designboom
and members from colombo design:
michele colombo, president colombo design
luca colombo, vice president colombo design
carlo bartoli, architect and industrial designer
efrem bonacina, colombo design advanced
see all 160 shortlisted entries
the 3 ex-equo winning entries are:
– ‘grow’ design by alexander hoffart from germany
– ‘concept MA1’ design by mattia albicini from italy
– ‘glow stripe’ design by kliment ivanov from bulgaria
and in the category ‘free-style’:
– ‘twitts’ design by tomo kimura from japan / italy
‘grow’ designed by alexander hoffart from germany
‘concept MA1’ design by mattia albicini from italy
‘glow stripe’ design by kliment ivanov from bulgaria
‘twitts’ design by milan based tomo kimura from japan — free-style category
left: prototype of ‘glow stripe’
right: kliment ivanov from bulgaria with his winning entry
left:prototype of ‘twitts’
right: tomo kimura from japan with his winning entry
the winning designs and prototypes from the designboom competition ‘hands on door handles’ on display at the milan triennale
image © designboom
making of the door handle prototypes at colombo design headquarters
video © anita hackethal/designboom
music credit: ‘sweet melody’ by fhernando
counter clockwise from top left: jean-marie massaud in discussion with design critic and curator cristina morozzi, who graciously translated his presentation from french to italian;
designboom editor-in-chief birgit lohmann with jean-marie massaud; michele colombo, president of colombo design – awards ceremony
lecture by french designer and architect jean-marie massaud who introduced the winners of the ‘hands on door handles’ competition at the milan triennale
invitation to the event organized by designboom and colombo design
‘small details make up the big picture’
video mood board © designboom
music credit: ‘apple’ by toshinori mashima
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hands on door handles competition results
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Great!
Great competition and great event! I loved JMmassaud words! Tnx
put a bird on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo
Very good
I want the Twitt handle! 🙂
very good!
Amazing videos
Good projects. I am not totally sure about the second one
VIDEOS ARE GREAT
When will the TWITT be produced?
Grow really deserved to win!
The Twitt is by far the most interesting imo, almost Alessi og the 90s quality. Congratulations! The others, well, meh!