Unlimited Design
Juryuttalelse
Etter avtale med styret i Designers Saturday, har juryen besluttet å avlyse konkurransen grunnet lav deltakelse.
Juryen er i tillegg av den oppfatning at de fleste av de innsendte bidragene verken oppfylte grunnleggende kvalitetskrav til «kompromissløs design» som beskrevet i utlysningen eller imøtekom Designers Saturdays ambisjon om å promotere og fokusere på design av ypperste klasse, jfr: «designkonkurransen Unlimited Design skal være et springbrett ut i det kommersielle markedet for spennende og hittil usette produkter.»
Juryen foreslår i stedet å investere Unlimited Design premiene i Student Project Awards – en annen konkurranse i regi av Designers Saturday – der spennende designforslag ble lagt frem av noen av Norges dyktigste studenter. Som en ekstra påskjønnelse, foreslår juryen at vinnerne fra studentkonkurransen tildeles et workshopopphold.
Designers Saturday vurderer muligheten for comeback med ny Unlimited Design konkuranse i 2013. Juryen håper på fornyet innsats i den anledning.
The Jury Decission:
In agreement with the board of Designers Saturday, it has been decided by the jury of the Unlimited Design Awards to cancel this competition, due to the limited number of entries. Moreover, the jury states that most proposals didn’t meet the essential qualitative criterion of the competition’s brief in terms of ‘uncompromising design’ nor did it fulfill Designers Saturday’s ambition to promote and focus on excellence in design, as per: «the competition will serve to launch exciting and as yet unseen design concepts into the realm of the commercial market.»
The jury instead suggests investing the Unlimited Design prize money into the Student Project Awards — another competition organised by Designers Saturday — in which surprising design proposals were received from some of Norway’s finest students. As an extra prize, the jury suggests that those winners be granted a workshop experience.
In the meantime, Designers Saturday is prepared to host an outstanding Unlimited Design Competition comeback in 2013, at which time the jury would hope for renewed participation.