From a radical car prototype to a construction breakthrough to the coolest pen ever, there were a lot of cool designs in the past year.
The Red Dot Awards named 42 design concepts as the Best of the Best, selecting from nearly 5,000 submissions. Check out the winners below.
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The 2-in-1 kitchen funnel can be a funnel or a container.
Red Dot juror: "This is a very elegant object. It’s the use of material which is unusual for this kind of product, being an air humidifier."
Design by Choi Jueun, Kim Bitnuri, Lee Soojin, Hong Hyekyung, South Korea.
"An Insight Into Sight" teaches about design for the visually impaired.
Design from Ngā Pae Māhutonga – The School of Design, Massey University, New Zealand.
Auroma One brews a high-tech personal coffee with zero plastic waste.
Design from Auroma Brewing Company, Canada.
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