GOOD DESIGN AWARD

Keyword
Year awarded: To
Special Award
Company Info: Country / Region

Award-winning item: Empowering Community Through Design by Setting Up Crafts Activity in Rural Area [magno]
Business Owner: Piranti works
Domain/Category: Innovation - Pioneering and experimental design activities
Company: Piranti Works (Indonesia)
Award Number: 08D18022
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2008

Outline* The shown information is the one as of the awarded date and might has been changed.

Outline: Many of Indonesian villages now face a bad situation. People and natural resources as well as capitals flow from villages to cities with no return in balance. Through design & crafts production activity Magno propose to improve this situation. Magno apply New Crafts, a new system in setting up and manage crafts activity. New Crafts make easier to mastering skill as well as reach standard quality. The theme "Less Wood More Works" explains my thinking. I hope make a lot of works using small materials.
Producer: Magno produced by Piranti Works. Found by Singgih S. Kartono, develop as a crafts basis production as well as producing design for themself.
Director: Singgih S. Kartono
Designer: Singgih S. Kartono; I am enjoy working close to nature.
More information: http://www.assiston.co.jp/?infocus=20070627
Already on the market: 2005/6/1

Evaluation

It is a challenge to contribute to the Indonesian economy through woodcraft, and an attempt to create quality design for wooden commodities and to produce them with relatively low skills. In other words, a product intermediating urban and rural. The wood material invokes an ecological image and also a warm feeling which makes users relate to the products. These handmade products may the products that urban people surrounded by technologically advanced objects are seeking underneath. The concept of "Less Wood More Works" is also appealing.