The Leaf personal light from Herman Miller, Inc., was noted for its sleek design and energy efficiency, earning Silver in the design strategy category from the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
In its 27th year, the annual design competition is sponsored by BusinessWeek and presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America. It honors design excellence in products, eco design, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research, and concepts.
Over 30 countries were represented in the competition with more than 1,600 award entries. The 18-member jury awarded 20 entries with Gold, 19 entries with Silver and 42 entries with Bronze.
Introduced in 2006, Leaf is an LED (light emitting diode) table-top light--a result of collaborative engineering and design development between Herman Miller and Yves Behar's San Francisco-based studio, fuseproject.
Leaf's design allows the user to choose the intensity and color of light. Additionally, Leaf's LEDs consume less than eight to nine watts of power, carry a lifespan of over 60,000 hours at the full-power setting, and cut energy use by 40 percent compared to a 13-watt compact fluorescent bulb.
Featured winners of the 2007 IDEA will appear in the July 30th issue of BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands on July 23. The complete list of winners is available on www.businessweek.com.
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