Pandaid Website For Infectious Diseases by Eisuke Tachikawa Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Social Design

Eisuke Tachikawa acknowledged for social design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Pandaid Website For Infectious Diseases by Eisuke Tachikawa, designed for Nosigner, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Social Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Silver A' Design Award Means

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

About Pandaid Website For Infectious Diseases

Pandaid is a website dedicated to protecting lives from pandemics. It is co-edited by volunteers, including doctors, editors, and more. The editorial emphasis goes towards providing scientific facts in ways that are easy to understand and to implement. As part of the project, there're other developments, a face shield to prevent splashes, signage to protect social distance humorously, and posters to communicate its importance.

About Eisuke Tachikawa

Eisuke Tachikawa is the head of NOSIGNER, a design firm aiming to create a hopeful future. He has worked on many projects tackling social issues, like climate change mitigation and adaptation, renewable energy, disaster prevention, community revitalization, and more. He advocates “Evolutional Creativity,” which tells the essence of creativity from the natural phenomenon of biological evolution, and this aims to foster innovators in various sectors of industry, academia, and government. This approach won him the prestigious Shichihei Yamamoto Prize, the leading academic award in humanities.

Award Record

Eisuke Tachikawa is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Social Design Award

The A' Social Design Award is an international design competition recognizing excellence in social design by social impact designers and think-tanks worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to social designers, social brands, social manufacturers and social design professionals from all countries. Entries typically include community projects, social campaigns, public installations, educational programs, sustainable initiatives and healthcare solutions. Awarded social designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/social

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/120441
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120441
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120441
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/134808
Further Information from the Laureate: https://nosigner.com/pandaid

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Pandaid Website For Infectious Diseases
Function: Website For Infectious Diseases
Category: Social Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Social Impact
Colors: White, Misty Rose, Red, Dark Gray and Silver
Images: 5
Client: Nosigner

The Recognition

Laureate: Eisuke Tachikawa
Country: Japan
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #120441

Credits

Team: NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa), NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa, Nozomi Aoyama), PANDAID Volunteers, NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa, Niyen Lee), NOSIGNER (Naoki Hijikata), PANDAID Volunteers, NOSIGNER (Ryota Mizusako), Kacho, PANDAID Volunteers and PANDAID Volunteers

Design Details

Unique Properties: PANDAID is a website dedicated to protecting lives from pandemics. It is co-edited by volunteers, including doctors, editors, and more. The editorial emphasis goes towards providing scientific facts in ways that are easy to understand and to implement. As part of the project, there're other developments, a face shield to prevent splashes, signage to protect social distance humorously, and posters to communicate its importance.
Inspiration: Tachikawa developed PANDAID website to make the most of our creativity and design wisdom to heal the pain in our world and to overcome the difficulties. It is co-edited by volunteers, including doctors, editors, etc. Over 100 volunteers are invested in this project, each with their own expertise. PANDAID is currently available in six languages, and more to come. In addition, PANDAID members keep making our own infographics and posters as needed to deliver intuitive content that the public can easily understand.
Specifications: As part of this project, a face shield that can be easily made from an A4-size clear file that takes no more than 30 seconds to complete is developed. The template, which requires no particular equipment, is available for free online alongside a tutorial video and has been viewed by more than one million on social media. Everyone can make one easily, and hopefully individually contribute to making the shortage of medical protective equipment easier to address. This movement is not limited to Japan, and many medical institutions all over the world have been sending their appreciation of face shield donations.