Innovation by Design Awards 2017

Winner

Dyson Supersonic

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Creators: James Dyson, Founder and Inventor Dyson engineers

Finalist

DuoSkin

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Creators: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Asta Roseway, Christian Holz, Paul Johns, Andres Calvo, Chris Schmandt. MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Microsoft Research

Biossance

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Creators: Biossance
Agency: Bartlett Brands

Sephora Reservation Assistant

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Creators: Mary Beth Laughton, SVP of Digital for Sephora, and the Sephora Innovation Lab

Honorable Mention

System of Motion

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Creators: Prabha Rathinasabapathy, Founder; Alison Chernesky, Designer

AldoShoes.com

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Creators: Partner, Design: Jon Jackson Partner, Product Management: Rachel Bogan Partner, Technology: Tiago Luchini Principal Developer: Oliver Dore Senior Product Manager: Sarah Layng Design Director: Laura Pence Ambrose Assoc Design Dir: Lauren Shapiro Design Leads: Andi Cheung, Badrul Rupak, Rafael Marin Senior Designer: Lucas Teixeira Designers: Andrew McBride, Chris Nieri, Koji Takaki, Noah Boyle,Sam Hodges Principal QA: Neil Duggan Lead Developer: Edwin Toh Senior Developer: Sarah Mogin Developers: Estevão Lucas, Ira Santiago
Agency: Work & Co

The Pant

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Creators: CEO and Founder Bayard Winthrop, Chief Product Officer Robin Rice, American Giant design and product teams

Mimo

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Creator: Ryan Ringholz, founder and chief designer
Firm: PLAE

Apollo 3

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Creators: Aman Advani, Co-founder & CEO at Ministry of Supply; Gihan Amarasiriwardena, Co-founder, President & CDO at Ministry of Supply; Skylar Tibbits, Director at MIT's Self-Assembly Lab; Jarlath Mellett, Design Director at Ministry of Supply.

Science of Apparel

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Creators: Roberto Crivello, Founding Partner & CEO; Douglas Babbit, Founding Partner & Strategic Advisor; Aydin Karavelioglu, Founding Partner & Head of Operations

See past winners: 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

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Winner

Finalist

Honorable Mention

All Stories In Innovation By Design

Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief

Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design.

Dyson’s latest product is a $550 hair curler

After six years and $31 million in development, Dyson is launching the Airwrap, a device that creates ringlets using a bit of aerospace-inspired physics.

Meet Krewe, the eyewear brand that New Orleans (and Beyoncé) built

The five-year-old brand’s founder is focused on giving back to his native New Orleans and putting it on the map of fashion-forward cities.

There’s even a Warby Parker of towels now

Weezie wants to shake up a mundane industry with design.

What the healthcare industry could learn from Lyft and Airbnb

The sharing economy is built upon service and interaction designs that engender interpersonal trust. Healthcare organizations could learn from it.

The future of web design is less, not more

Low-Tech Magazine’s new website is solar-powered, which means it goes offline in cloudy weather.

This building’s giant sundial shows how much energy it’s making

It’s one of the most efficient buildings in the country–but its most unique design feature might be the 40-foot-tall installation in the atrium.

Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop

In Gary Hustwit’s highly anticipated new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create.

This long-lost Eames design is being produced for the first time

In the 1940s, radio companies rejected the Eameses’ designs as being “too modern.” Not anymore.

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That tone-deaf Ancestry ad was playing on Canadian emotions about Americans

Netflix is opening a production hub in NYC

Co.Design

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Work Life

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You should take “you have too much time on your hands” as a compliment

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