BusinessWeek Blog Names UC as International Gold Standard Design School

In its July 30 issue, BusinessWeek magazine lists the winners of the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) sponsored by the magazine and by the Industrial Designers Society of America.

Only four design schools from around the world set the 2007 “gold standard,” as it were, by submitting the best design projects among what

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columnist Bruce Nussbaum calls “an incredible collection of fascinating products, services, research, student work and concepts” submitted as part of the elite international competition.

The winning schools, as listed by Nussbaum in his July 11, 2007,. BusinessWeek design blog, are

Gold Awards

• University of Cincinnati
• Daejin University (South Korea)
• Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
• Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

Silver Awards

• Hong-ik University (South Korea)
• Institute of Design - IIT
• Kookmin University (South Korea)
• Seoul National University (South Korea)

Bronze Awards

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Cleveland Institute of Art
• Hfg. Offenbach am Main (Germany)
• Shih Chien University (Taiwan)
• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands)
• University of Notre Dame

One particular entry from the University of Cincinnati made IDEA competition history this year. While the world’s leading designers selected 20 “gold” level design concepts from among the thousand of competition entries from more than 30 countries, only one design was named “Best of Show.” And for the first time in the contest’s history, that “Best of Show” designation went to a student project – to the University of Cincinnati’s Ryan Eder for his senior thesis project titled “The Access.” That project is featured in the July 30 issue of BusinessWeek.

This is not the first recognition provided by BusinessWeek to UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. In fall 2006, the magazine named UC's School of Design as among the best in the world. In addition, UC's industrial design program is ranked number two in the country in surveys of design employers.

• Read more on Ryan Eder's project.
• Learn more about UC's Industrial Design Program.
• Apply to UC's Industrial Design Program.