KOKUYO Design Award 2008

published Apr 10, 2008
ends Jun 30, 2008

Kokuyo Co., Ltd. announced the Kokuyo Design Award 2008 design competition, and is encouraging all those wishing to participate to submit their user-oriented product designs.

The goal of the competition is to develop excellent ideas into commercial products.

Applications are accepted from April 1 to June 30, 2008.

This years theme is "Carbon".

The carbon in our bodies can account for as much as 20% of our body weight.Excluding water, carbon makes up more than one-half of the composition of our body.

The earth was once covered in carbon dioxide.

The first living creatures used the power of the sun to form their bodies from this massive amount of carbon.

Plants continued this method, and today we live amid carbon that has accumulated since prehistoric times.

Many of the natural materials we use every day are compounds of carbon; wood, paper, cloth, leather, and plastics made from fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal.

Creatures ingested carbon from the atmosphere to make these natural materials.