hands on door handles competition results

<p>6209 designers from 103 countries participated in designboom's competition. here are the winners!</p>

andrea chin June 6, 2011 2 min

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

hands on door handles competition results - 1 ‘grow’ designed by alexander hoffart from germany

hands on door handles competition results - 2 ‘concept MA1’ design by mattia albicini from italy

hands on door handles competition results - 3 ‘glow stripe’ design by kliment ivanov from bulgaria

hands on door handles competition results - 4 ‘twitts’ design by milan based tomo kimura from japan — free-style category

hands on door handles competition results - 5 left: prototype of ‘glow stripe’ right: kliment ivanov from bulgaria with his winning entry

hands on door handles competition results - 6 left:prototype of ‘twitts’ right: tomo kimura from japan with his winning entry

hands on door handles competition results - 7 the winning designs and prototypes from the designboom competition ‘hands on door handles’ on display at the milan triennale

making of the door handle prototypes at colombo design headquarters video © anita hackethal/designboom music credit: ‘sweet melody’ by fhernando

hands on door handles competition results - 8 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

hands on door handles competition results - 9 lecture by french designer and architect jean-marie massaud who introduced the winners of the ‘hands on door handles’ competition at the milan triennale

hands on door handles competition results - 10 invitation to the event organized by designboom and colombo design