Good Design Award 2007 for TRUMPF OR light iLED

OR light iLED

The TRUMPF OR lamp iLED was assigned with the oldest and most famous design prize worldwide, the Good Design Award, in December 2007. With this award, the American architecture and design museum “The Chicago Athenaeum” annually honors innovative and outstanding products from the areas of industrial, product and graphic design.

The iLED received the Good Design Award in the category “Medical”. This TRUMPF OR light supports the work of doctors with its shadow-free light, sharp contrasts and adjustable color temperatures. Since the introduction of the world’s first OR light based on LEDs in 2005, more than 2,500 have been sold worldwide. TRUMPF continues to develop the iLED lights and presented the new light technology ContrastLine for the first time at the MEDICA 2007. ContrastLine uses narrow-band light from colored

LEDs to make tissue types and differences in organ tissues more clearly visible.

In the United States, the iLED has already received the awards “Best in Show” as well as “Architect’s Choice” at the “Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo 2006” from October 24 to 26 in Chicago. These highly regarded awards are given annually for the best and most innovative products of the trade show and for exceptional design of products for the health care industry.

The Good Design Award was created in 1950 by Edgar J. Kaufmann Junior, the retired curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, along with some of the most famous American designers. Besides the formal, functional, and esthetic quality of the design, the level of product innovation, the use of new technologies and materials, the product concept and construction as well as the environmental friendliness are relevant criteria for the jury. All award winners are included in the collection of the Chicago Athenaeum and exhibited internationally. In the year 2007, applications from 33 different countries were handed in – more than ever before.