SizeChina, a design research project aiming to create a database of Chinese head and face shapes, has received one out of two 'best in show' award during the
International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition. It is for the first time that a design research project wins the prestigious best in show award at the IDEA. SizeChina is in good company; the other best in show award went to Apple's iPhone.
See also>
IDEA: Design Award Winners, 2008 (Business Week)
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Measuring Chinese Heads: New-School Anthropometry (uselog)
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Up Close and Personal With the Chinese (De Pers, in Dutch only)
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Video interview with Roger Ball, initiator of the SizeChina project, by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (movie partially in English)
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