The eight finalists for this year’s DesignEuropa awards have been announced, along with the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award. The winners in the industry and small/emerging companies categories will be revealed at a ceremony in Warsaw on 27 November.

The finalists are:

Industry category:

• ARTIS pheno robotic C-arm angiography system (RCD owner and manufacturer: Siemens Healthcare GmbH; designer: Nadja Roth (in-house design) and Tobias Reese (at-design GbR).
• Docks modular outdoor furniture (RCD owner and manufacturer: Gandía Blasco S.A.; designer: Romero Vallejo).
• Intercom smart video doorbell (RCD owner and manufacturer: Fibar Group, S.A.; designer: Maciej Fiedler).
• Origami folding radiator (RCD owner and manufacturer: Tubes Radiatori SrL; designer: Alberto Meda).

Small and emerging companies category:

• Air.Go.2.0 automatic bag drop solution for airports (RCD owner: Marcus P Holding, manufacturer: Marcus Pederson ApS; designer: Sara Clement).
• Braster in-home breast examination system (RCD owner and manufacturer: Braster S.A.; designers: Arif Veendijk, Grzegorz Ciupiński, Jakub Oller, Jeroen de Graaf, Michał Biernat, Reiner Halbertsma, Rogier Braak, Sander Patje).
• Loclock bicycle parking system (RCD owner and manufacturer: Durbanis SLU; designer: Alex Fernández Camps).
• Nico Less chair (RCD owner and manufacturer: DONAR d.o.o.; designer: Primož Jeza).

Read more about all the finalists on EUIPO’s website here.

This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner is Hartmut Esslinger, known for his collaboration with Steve Jobs and Apple, in particular his creation of the “Snow White” design language for Apple in the 1980s. His design studio, frog design, was founded in 1969 and is now present in 11 countries. After retiring from frog in 2006, he dedicated his time to teaching, most recently at the University of Shanghai in China. Read more about him on EUIPO’s website here.

The DesignEuropa Awards are organised by EUIPO in collaboration with the Polish Patent Office. The winners are selected by an independent jury, chaired this year by Luisa Bocchietto.

The winners and finalists of the 2016 DesignEuropa Awards can be seen here.