The Red Dot Jury has made its decision: Vicoustic’s new collection GEN_VMT has been awarded the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2020 for its good design quality. This means that Vicoustic is, with this award, proudly joining a group of world class designers and companies such Philippe Starck, Ferrari, Siemens and Porsche, all previous winners of the Red Dot Award, the world’s most renowned design competition. 

Throughout the in-depth selection process, the world-renowned experts from different disciplines of the Red Dot jury evaluated more than 6,500 products from companies and designers from 60 countries. The jurors test all of the entries in order to assess not just the aesthetic but also the materials selected, the level of craftsmanship, the surface structure, ergonomics and functionality. After intensive discussions, they make a decision on the design quality of the products. True to the motto “In search of good design and innovation”, only the best designs receive an award. The unique new GEN_VMT collection was selected in the Interior Design Elements category. 

“The fact that you won this award bears testimony to the good design quality of your product”, said the founder and CEO of Red Dot, Professor Dr. Peter Zec, when addressing the laureates, adding: “The winners of the Red Dot Award have proved that they have created excellent creations worthy of winning an award. The products won over the jury not only through their aesthetic, but also thanks to their incomparable functionality. With their designs, the award winners are setting new standards in their industry”. 

The utmost importance of this award for the brand is best summarized by the founder and CEO of Vicoustic, César Carapinha: “When I founded Vicoustic in 2007, I never thought 13 years later our brand would join the prestigious family of Red Dot awardees. It’s an honour and a privilege for our team and partners to see our vision was right, and this award empowers us to continue our work developing high performance sustainable acoustic products”. Referring to the designers involved, he added: “a special acknowledgement to the talented Digitalab team that helped us make this project possible". 

Vicoustic is proud to present GEN_VMT, the Generative Collection, a set of acoustic tiles, panels and clouds with a fresh new design concept. In this collection, the innovations introduced by environmentally sustainable raw material VicPET Wool, mainly produced from recycled plastic (65%), and VMT technology, developed by Vicoustic for superb acoustic performance, take on a new dimension in terms of design. The geometry of GEN_VMT allows generating endless combinations of acoustic tiles and panels, with no limit to creativity. 

As part of Vicoustic VMT (Virtual Material Technology) range of products, GEN_VMT is an environmentally sustainable solution made from VicPET Wool, a non-woven textile developed by Vicoustic for superb acoustic performance, predominantly made from recycled plastic bottles. This material can now be found in state-of-the-art acoustic panels and clouds such as: Flat Panel VMT, ViCloud VMT Flat, ViCloud VMT 3D, VicWallpaper VMT, VicOffice line, and Vixagon VMT. 

The first set of GEN_VMT solutions to be released are the PENRAY 02 Tiles. Presented in 4 different forms in the shape of a pentagon, these tiles can be combined according to each one’s will. This allows generating endless combinations of geometric shapes. 

On 22 June 2020, GEN_VMT will be added to the exhibition “Design on Stage” in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen, where all of the award-winning products will be on show. The museum will thus be a hotspot for best-in-class industrial design. From that date, the winning product from Vicoustic will also be presented in the online exhibition on the Red Dot website. The Red Dot Design Yearbook 2020/2021 comes out in July 2020.

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