{"id":12244,"date":"2017-03-13T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=12244"},"modified":"2019-06-18T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T01:43:04","slug":"samsung-wins-49-design-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-wins-49-if-design-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Wins 49 iF Design Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Samsung Electronics<\/strong> <\/a>announced that it won 49<a href=\"http:\/\/ifworlddesignguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> iF Design Awards<\/strong><\/a>, including one Gold award, at the world-renowned International Forum Design Awards 2017. Thirty-five of the awards were given for superior product design, four for professional concept design, seven for communication design, and three for packaging design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpgrading a product is easy but upgrading consumer lifestyle is difficult. We will continue to strive for design that entertains and fulfills the lives of our consumers through consumer-focused innovation,\u201d <strong>said BK Yoon, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics and the Head of the Corporate Design Center at Samsung.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samsung received the Gold award for the <strong>ArtPC Pulse<\/strong>, a premium desktop computer with advanced expandable modules. The ArtPC Pulse integrates a high-performance PC into a refined cylinder form. It can expand its function with extended modules for HDD storage and a 360-degree speaker in a detachable rotary structure. The award-winning design of the ArtPC Pulse includes minimalist styling on its fully metal body as the buttons and port are all located at the rear of the product.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Gold award, Samsung won 34 other iF Design Awards in the product category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Galaxy S7 Series<\/strong>, flagship smartphone designed with 3D forming glass technology to enhance grip<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gear S3<\/strong>, smartwatch with an innovative round bezel and spinning UI<\/li>\n<li><strong>Galaxy C9 Pro<\/strong>, 6.9mm thickness smartphone with full-metal unibody design, available in China and India<\/li>\n<li><strong>SUHD TV KS9500<\/strong>, premium TV with beautiful 360 design, including a floating screen in the front and a delicate real metal line on the back<\/li>\n<li><strong>RB38K7998S4, Smart Family Hub refrigerator<\/strong> features a 21.5\u201d LCD touch screen allowing users to manage and see the food in the fridge without having to open the door<\/li>\n<li><strong>Activewash series, <\/strong>touch controls located on the top back, it\u00a0allows users to look inside the drum from a better viewing angle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Organized by the International Forum Design, the iF Design Awards began in Germany in 1953. Product submissions are based on a comprehensive evaluation of design, material suitability, innovativeness and seven additional categories: Product, Packaging, Communication, Interior Architecture, Professional Concept, Service Design, and Architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics announced that it won 49 iF Design Awards, including one Gold award, at the world-renowned International Forum Design Awards 2017. Thirty-five of the awards were given for superior product design, four for professional concept design, seven for communication design, and three for packaging design. \u201cUpgrading a product is easy but upgrading consumer lifestyle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17552,29726,29718],"tags":[390,962,36,53,963,618,710,935,399,128,125,510],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-12244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-computing-computers-tablets","category-product-computing","category-product","tag-activewash","tag-artpc-pulse","tag-awards","tag-bk-yoon","tag-computer","tag-family-hub","tag-galaxy-s7","tag-gear-s3","tag-refrigerator","tag-suhd","tag-television-tv","tag-washerdryer"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/themes\/samsung-newsroom-2023\/assets\/theme-images\/default-card-mobile.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/themes\/samsung-newsroom-2023\/assets\/theme-images\/default-card.png","primary_category":{"term_id":17552,"name":"Computers &amp; Tablets","slug":"product-computing-computers-tablets","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17552,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29726,"count":87,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/product-computing\/product-computing-computers-tablets\/","term_path":"product\/product-computing\/product-computing-computers-tablets"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}