Judges
Alberto Alessi
Principal - Alessi
Biography
Born in Arona in 1946, Alberto Alessi is President of Alessi Spa and head of Marketing Strategy, Communication and Design Management.
He joined the company in 1970 and since then he has started collaborating with architects and designers from all over the world.
He has written "La Cintura di Orione"; "Not in Production next to Production" and "The Dream Factory".
He is a member of the Academic Board and Doctor Honoris Causa of the U.I.A.H.; Professor of the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste and Doctor of Fine Arts at the Miami University of Oxford. He's received some Design Awards; the Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University at the UCE in Birmingham and the Honorary Doctorate of Arts at the Lincoln University.
Design Excellence
Design Excellence is design meant as Art and Poetry, is what characterizes the Italian Design Factories, a historical group of companies considering design as a key-element of their activity. For these companies design is a Mission, an activity which has gradually broken away from its original meaning as a formal simple project for an object and has become a sort of "overall philosophy", a "Weltanshauung", underlying all of these companies' original steps.