Landa presses win design award

- Good Design Award program is staged annually

 

- Presses designed to ‘translate Landa’s Nanographic Printing revolution into a breath-taking piece of equipment’

 

Landa has received a prestigious Good Design Award for its Nanographic Printing presses.

 

The Good Design Award program is staged annually by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.

 

The Chicago Athenaeum received submissions from several thousand of the world’s leading manufacturers and industrial and graphic designers, with the program’s jury meeting in New York last November and selecting 700 product and graphical designs from over 38 countries. The full spectrum of products awarded in 2012 spans household products and textiles to bionics and medical. See all the 2012 Good Design Award winners here.

 

Past Good Design Award winners include 3M, Apple, Bang & Olufsen, CISCO Systems, Daimler AG, Lenovo, Logitech and Porsche. 

 

The design of the Landa printing presses (pictured, top as demonstrated at Drupa 2012) feature a 10ft (3m) wide touchscreen for operating the device (pictured, below). A distinctive cyan-colored frame surrounds the touchscreen and visually connects the press to the Landa brand.

 

The Good Design Award program is considered the oldest and most recognized program for design excellence, and was created in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.

 

Benny Landa, chief executive officer and chairman of Landa Corporation, said: ‘We designed the Landa Nanographic Printing presses not only to address short-to-medium run lengths, but also to remake the printing press user experience for a new generation.

 

‘We worked hard to make our Nanographic Printing press appeal to the digital print marketplace of 2013 to 2030, and beyond.’

 

Elisha Tal, principal and owner at I2D, a Tel Aviv-based industrial design firm that worked with Landa on the design of the press, added: ‘Our goal was to translate Landa’s Nanographic Printing revolution into a breath-taking piece of equipment that could redefine the meaning and identity of commercial printing – all within the context of the user profile.’

 

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