▲ Samsung Electronics' home appliance accessibility design awarded at "IDEA 2026"
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have demonstrated their design competitiveness by winning numerous awards at a world-renowned international design competition.
Samsung Electronics announced today (August 21) that it received a total of 45 awards at "IDEA 2026," an international design competition hosted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), including 1 newly established Impact Award, 9 Bronze prizes, and 35 finalists.
Ranked among the world's top three design awards, IDEA evaluates entries each year based on design innovation, user experience improvement, and business viability, selecting winners across 20 categories including home, consumer technology, commercial and industrial products, and packaging.
This year's winners included home appliance accessibility designs that take users' physical characteristics into consideration, as well as sustainability and forward-looking designs proposing future lifestyles.
In particular, Samsung's home appliance accessibility design received the Impact Award.
It is characterized by allowing anyone to easily and conveniently use home appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators by considering different user traits including visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive abilities.
Features were applied to allow users to view text on the screen in larger sizes or receive voice guidance, along with an "Easy Mode" to simplify complex functions and an "Auto Open Door" function that allows doors to be opened with a light touch or voice.
Bronze prizes were awarded to the "Infinite AI Air Purifier," which applies a soft curved design, and "Micro RGB Brand Identity," which visually expresses the picture quality of Micro RGB and an immersive screen experience.
Also making the list of winners were the "Samsung Mobile Origami Package," which applies the origami technique to a single sheet of recycled paper; the "Portable SSD T7 Resurrected," crafted from recycled aluminum; and "AIDC (AI Design Companion)," an AI-based forward-looking design solution utilizing virtual simulations.
Additionally, Samsung Electronics won a total of 12 awards in the Brand & Communication category of the "Red Dot Design Award 2026," including the top "Best of the Best" prize.
The "Privacy Display" applied to the Galaxy S26 Ultra received the top prize, while the visual branding for "The Moving Style," "Vision AI Companion," and the 2026 Milan Design Week exhibition also won main prizes.
LG Electronics won a total of 17 awards at IDEA 2026, including 5 Bronze prizes.
With this, LG has swept the world's top three design awards, following the Red Dot Design Award and the iF Design Award.
Previously, LG Electronics won a total of 55 awards at the Red Dot Design Award and the iF Design Award.
The IDEA Bronze winners include the wireless wallpaper TV "LG Signature OLED W" with a thickness in the 9-millimeter range, three indoor units of the air source heat pump (AWHP) "LG Therma V," the ultra-high-definition professional monitor "LG UltraFine Evo," the "LG Smart Monitor Swing," and the air purifier "LG PuriCare AeroMini."
In addition, 12 products including the home robot "LG Cloi," the LG PuriCare System Air Purifier, and the LG Gram Pro received main prizes.
In the package design category, the lifestyle audio brand "XBOOM" series and the premium home audio system "LG Sound Suite" also won, recognized for design capabilities encompassing not just products but overall brand experiences.
(Photo courtesy of Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, Yonhap News)
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