Dyson Air Multiplier Wins Japan's 2010 Good Design Grand Award

The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), the nation's only institution fully supporting design and the organizer of the world-famous design contest Good Design Award (G-Mark), recently announced that the "Dyson Air Multiplier" has been chosen for the 2010 Good Design Grand Award, the highest honor in the annual competition.

The JIDPO said that this year's Good Design Award began accepting submissions in late April and eventually received 3,136 entries, 1,110 of which were given Good Design Awards after the first and second evaluations.

At the selection for the Grand Award held at the Tokyo Mid-Town Hall on November 10, the Dyson Air Multiplier obtained the highest votes, cast by the award winners, jury committee and Adjudication board focusing on the "Best 15" candidates.

The Grand Award winner is developed by the famous Swedish designer James Dyson. Using air multiplier technology, the fan smoothes out airflow to achieve maximum streamlining, blowing a continuous stream of air up to 450-liters per second. Suctioned air goes through the circular opening in the loop amplifier and accelerates, passing over the airfoil-shaped ramp to create a circular airflow to control wind direction. The circular airflow twists the surrounding air to produce 15 to 18 times the wind volume of the suctioned air. Compared to the AMO1, the AMO2 produces 30% more and the AMO3 50% more air depending on usable space. Being without blades, the fan is safe and easy to maintain. The AMO1 has a knob for precise adjustment of wind volume; while the AMO2 and AMO3 models feature a remote controller.

The JIDPO emphasized that Dyson has developed the world's safest fan, especially considering that every year children are injured by sticking fingers into fans. Also the blade-less fan is easy to clean and has low center of gravity, hence being significantly stable. In a sense, this is a brand-new concept, perhaps even a "revolution" in fans, also an inspiration to today's engineers and designers.

Background
Japan's G-Mark program is the successor to the "Good Design Selection System"

established in 1957 by the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and

is Japan's only comprehensive system for evaluating and awarding design. During its 50-year history, G-Mark has handed out Good Design Awards or G-Marks to 30,000 products.

Every year the G-Mark program invites applications from companies and designers, helping to raise the status of design and also directly and otherwise create more socially-valuable products and entities.

Established in 1969, the JIDPO contributes to improving quality of life and industrial output through numerous design promotion activities, the pinnacle of which is the Good Design Awards program.