XXVIII Compasso d’Oro Adi: the 20 winning projects
If we were to identify a keyword common to the 20 winning products of the 2024 Compasso d’Oro, this could be “reduction”. Reduction of waste, consumption, resources and materials used, thicknesses and weights.
Objects become lighter, miniaturized, and integrate more functions to respond to multiple housing needs, to follow us in our domestic nomadism in increasingly micro homes, and to impact less on the environment. The Anima lamp by Davide Groppi and Giorgio Rava represents the need to do things with little (Groppi also receives the honorable mention for the FM light), a stem and a base, a weightless ideogram, a thread-like sculpture.
It goes on a “diet” to reduce space and consumption. Aria, the seat for airplanes by Good for Optimares; integrates more functions in just a few centimeters Biga, the wireless and USB charging bedside lamp by Marco Zito for Lym; it is 3 in 1, oven, hob and extractor hood, Lhovthe award-winning system of Fabrizio Crisà For Propeller; The chair weighs just 3.7 kilos Butterfly Of Álvaro Siza And Shop Acorn; the lamp brings light into every environment, with a simple system of cables and counterweights Figaroqua Figarolà Of Paolo Rizzatto and marionanni for Viabizzuno; from a minimal two-dimensional portal it transforms into a three-dimensional shading system MrX Of Marco Acerbis For Talents; they rethink the way of designing and producing the sofa, with fewer components, fewer materials, without glues, with structures that are easy to repair and possibly disassemble at the end of their life, Za:Za by Zaven for Zanotta And Costume Of Stefan Diez For Magis; optimizes water resources, reduces consumption and waste Acea Waidy Management SystemAcea’s platform with Tangity (part of Ntt Data Italia).
Among the projects that represent the best of Italian design also: Attitude, the ceramic covering by Daniele Martelli For Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola which, as stated in the jury’s motivation, “seeks a new and original expressive language far from graphic emulations”; Celliathe interactive facade for efficient and technological properties created by Project CMR and patented with Group Focchi (presented for the first time in the context of INTERNI Design Re-Generation at FuoriSalone 2022); the suit Emsi Of Flavius Augustus Gentleco-founder and CEO of the Apulian startup Rea Space, an invention that simulates in space the muscular stimuli that the human body normally experiences in the presence of gravity, already worn by the Italian astronaut Walter Villadei in the capsule of SpaceX.
And again: the Ferrari Purosangue Of Flavio Manzoni And Ferrari Design for the Maranello car manufacturer. Safety shoes encourage safety and reduce fatigue at work Glove Eco Of Cristian Ardissono For Diadora UtilitiesAnd Omniagvthe self-driving electric vehicle for industrial logistics by Ilario De Vincenzo for Tesar Automation.
Emotionally engaging, according to the jury, the museographic and museological display of the Luigi Rovati Foundation Art Museum imagined by Mario Cucinella Architects; explores the potential of artificial intelligence in the medical sector and goes beyond the concept of the normal-bodied prosthetic knee Power Knee by Design Group Italia for the Icelandic company Ӧssur; the yacht interprets the idea of a floating house through new proportions and housing solutions, and even more sustainable construction systems SP110 Of Saint Lawrence, project of Zuccon International Project (exterior design), Lissoni & Partners (interior design), Tilli Antonelli (supervisor). It also climbs onto the design podium Ride on coloursnear the track Misano World Circuit Marco SimoncelliOf Aldo Drudi For Holy Monica“communication design declined in the dimension of land art”, says the jury “which underlines a different relationship in the enjoyment of sporting events that involve a large audience through new media”.
