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A bed designed with comprehensive consideration of the sleeping and resting space of the bedroom won the iF Design Award 2024/Germany.

Award: iF DESIGN AWARD 2024 / Home Furniture category
Award year: 2024
Item name: Bed “TAKO”
Designer: Setsu Ito, Shishin Ito, Leonardo Mercurio (studio Ito design)
Link:iF Design – TAKO BED

*The iF Design Award is one of the most prestigious design awards in the world, sponsored by the international design promotion organization iF International Forum Design GmbH (Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany) since 1953. This award recognizes the best designs of the year from seven categories including product, packaging, communication, service design, architecture, and interior/architecture. This award is a symbol of trust not only for consumers but also for the design community.

Art professor Sari Yamamoto received the Japan Institute of Design Annual Work Award in recognition of her work paper, "Public transportation design that utilizes local resources: Hitachi BRT as a case study," which was published in the Japan Institute of Design Collected Works. .

The graphic design work for nine Hitachi BRT buses and 9 bus stop signposts was praised not only for its outstanding performance as an individual, but also for its outstanding work as a series of works, and for its extremely clear argumentation. I did.

This was a joint award with Moe Maeda, a second-year student in the Department of Art at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, and Arisa Nohama, then a student in the Department of Art.