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Cat food bowl convinces the Red Dot Jury
Designer Edgars Treimanis was able to convince the Red Dot Jury with his entry in the Red Dot Award: Product Design. He was one of the 50 young talents who were drawn by lot during the Young Professionals Application Day and thus received the chance to participate in the competition free of charge.
Interview with Young Professionals Application Day winner Edgars Treimanis
In the interview, designer Edgars Treimanis talks about the inspiration behind the product, challenges and breakthroughs, including his journey to discover the perfect material, and gives valuable tips to aspiring designers.
Red Dot: What inspired you in the development of the MIICE Satellite Bowl?
Edgars Treimanis: My mum! She runs a cat product company called Mikaste and is always inventing DIY solutions for her daily needs. Whenever she has a problem, she creates a rough version and asks if I can turn it into a polished, cohesive product. Sometimes she even hands me a sketch and it becomes my job to bring her vision to life. In this case it was a raised cat bowl that is easy to pick-up, does not collect dish-washing water and gives a stunning yet subtle impression.
How has participating in the Red Dot Award: Product Design influenced your career as a young professional?
It provides empowering evidence and recognition for one’s abilities to take a product from a sketch to a customer’s home, and to do so with taste. When working on a product that takes a long time to see the light of day, this kind of evidence reassures you to keep going!
What advice would you give aspiring designers who want to participate in the Red Dot Design Award or who are early in their design careers?
Build as many of your designs as possible with what you got, 3D Printers, for example, are now incredibly cheap and easy to use. A single prototype beats 1,000 sketches and renders. Immediately engaging all five senses, you will acquire an incredible feel for proportion, materials, manufacturing and arrive at novel ideas in the midst of making it real. People are tired of seeing concepts and renders on screens all day. Delight them by putting a real prototype in their hands to play with.
The full interview can be downloaded in the attachment.
Save the Date: Young Professionals Application Day on 27 November 2024
The 2024 Young Professionals Application Day is just around the corner. On 27 November, young designers will have 24 hours to enter a draw for one of 50 free registration spots for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025.
Eligible participants are designers who graduated no more than five years ago, with products that have been or will be manufactured in an industrial production process. The product must have been launched between 1 January 2023 and 1 July 2025. To enter the draw, a brief product description, up to five images of the product, and a scan of the degree certificate are required.
The selected talents will have their products evaluated by the Red Dot Jury. If awarded, they will receive the extensive benefits of the Winner Package “Regular”, which will communicate their success in the award on an international scale – free of charge.
The application portal will open at midnight on 27 November for 24 hours. Interested individuals should mark the date and seize this unique opportunity to advance their careers as Young Professionals.
Further information: www.red-dot.org/ypad
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The Red Dot Design Award is one of the most prestigious design competitions worldwide. Participants can submit entries in three disciplines: products, brands and communication projects, as well as prototypes and design concepts. Each year, a jury convenes for each award category to individually assess the submissions and subsequently decide on the awarding of distinctions.
The Red Dot Design Award has a nearly 70-year history: in 1955, a jury convened for the first time to evaluate the best designs of that era. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award.
