xbox360 won "Good Design" 2006

[TrungGap]

Yes the Japanese loves the 360 design...

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/japan-yes-japan-acknowledges-xbox-360s-sleek-design-207038.php

Ironic isn't it?

 

[-NakedZ-]

This shows not many Japanese seen the X360 at home with the memory card units ugly sticking out. J/K. Really though, I hate that memory card.

.Z

 

[Nesh]

Yes the Japanese loves the 360 design...

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/japan-yes-japan-acknowledges-xbox-360s-sleek-design-207038.php

Ironic isn't it?

Where does it say who, how many voted, where or when?

 

[TrungGap]

Where does it say who, how many voted, where or when?

Well, it's not the japanese citizen, but the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO). They have been around since 1957. I'm not sure why the 360 recieved the award in 2006, when it came out in 2005.

 

[Dr. Nick]

If that award is given out around this time of year the Xbox 360 would have been released too late to recieve the award last year.

 

[rabidrabbit]

Funny, but there are no indication on the Good Design Award site that the xbox360 had indeed "won" the category. It seems to be among the 13 "winners" though.
Here's what you find when you do a search by category in order from 1 to 13:

 

[one]

Where does it say who, how many voted, where or when?

No vote, it's decided by 4-person committees for each category!
http://www.g-mark.org/english/archive/2006/jury.html

For 2006, 1,034 products were awarded. So this is something like the industry's seal of approval for good designs rather than award.
http://www.g-mark.org/english/archive/2006/sokuhou.html

 

[rabidrabbit]

The final awards are still yet to be decided.

A "Good Design Grand Prize 2006" and 14 "Good Design Gold Prize 2006" will be selected from the "best 15" Good design Award winners by the Good Design Council members and Good Design Award winners will be announced on October 25th at the "Good Design Grand Prize Winning Ceremony".

 

[Shifty Geezer]

So like the Chelsea Flower Show for design - awarding various levels of merit and then deciding some grand winners.

 

[Tap In]

well whatever... it's still a very nice design IMO

 

[LunchBox]

Kewl!
Atleast they give credit when credit is due.

 

[Deepak]

Kotaku....

 

[INKster]

Could this have anything to do with the Xbox 360 having been originally designed between Japanese and S. Francisco-based Design companies ?

 

[inefficient]

Harmonica > Xbox360

Breaking news!

Out of the 13 products in the hobby and entertainment products catagory, this harmonica wins! (link)

Is this a sign that Harmonicas are about to take off in Japan??! Surely it is. Alert the press: Japanese prefer mouth organs to video games.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Is this a sign that Harmonicas are about to take off in Japan??! Surely it is.

Nope. Just because the winner of the Chelsea Flower Show is a 7 tiered metallic artificial mountain rockgarden with blue water cascading down it, doesn't mean anyone's going to style their garden that way. Nor if the Turner Prize winner is a rotting corpse of a goat covered in cheese and sequins, are people going to decorate their living rooms with deceased livestock and dairy products.

This is a design award, and those who choose it gave it on design criteria that probably has no relevance at all to what the general populace at large think or care to buy.

 

[rounin]

Kotaku....

And the people who desperately want to believe them