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A record win for DDSTUDIO with three Medical Design Excellence Awards at MD&M East

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DDSTUDIO, whose human-centered design work focuses on the end user in context, congratulated clients InfoBionic®, Hologic® and IntelliGuard® for each winning a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) Tuesday, 6/12/2018, at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East conference in New York City. The awards recognize design and engineering that improves the quality of health care delivery and accessibility.

Only once before has a design firm had three client products named as finalists in one year for the prestigious award.

“All three of these very different devices were designed to fit seamlessly into the user’s life or workflow, which is the essence of DDSTUDIO’s human-centered design process,” said Charles Curbbun, DDSTUDIO’s chief executive. “Each device delivers cutting-edge technology that is transformative in its own category.”

  • InfoBionic’s MoMe® Kardia System, a wearable, ambulatory cardiac monitoring system designed for users with transient symptoms of arrhythmia, won a gold award in the Cardiovascular Device category. Its sleek, unobtrusive design allows it to be worn comfortably and correctly all day, without interrupting the user’s routine or activities. It provides reliable, detailed data that doctors can access when they want, allowing for real- time diagnosis. In January, the market-shifting MoMe® won a Good Design.

  • Hologic’s Panther Fusion® won a bronze award in the Testing and Diagnostic Products and Systems category. The modular, field upgrade to Hologic’s fully automated Panther system combines PCR and TMA molecular testing on a single platform designed for intuitive operation, enhancing a laboratory’s flexibility and amplifying productivity.

  • IntelliGuard’s Linked Visibility Inventory System™, (LVIS™), won a bronze award in the Nonsurgical Hospital Supplies and Equipment category, is the first real-time medication management system that operates at the point of care. Designed for the anesthesiology team working in a hectic operating room, it uses patented RFID technology to track medication uses as they occur and manage regulatory and narcotics control, while ensuring expiration and recall issues are properly dispatched, all out of sight from the point of care. LVIS™ won a Good Design Award earlier this year.

“Normally you wouldn’t think design would matter for a product used by anesthesiologist in the OR, but we thought it is important to prioritize both form and function to improve workflows,” said Gordon Krass, IntelliGuard’s CEO. “I would like to thank DDSTUDIO for their creative work on the Linked Visibility Inventory System™ (LVIS™) and the Medical Design Excellence Awards committee for this honor.”

The awards are judged by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of expert jurors comprised of a balance of clinicians, engineers, and designers.

Read more about the finalists

Designs by Josh Herman Connect Us with the Natural World

Some of us at DDSTUDIO were lucky enough to catch the community reception exhibition for ceramics artist, Josh Herman. His collection filled the Jacobs Library and Academic Center Gallery at the La Jolla Country School.  We first met Josh at the Dwell design event in LA. Mirroring our values at DDSTUDIO, his passion for respecting every part of the creative process is certainly apparent, and is highlighted in his meticulously unique pieces.

The collection of work is entitled “Stack Studies: an exploration of process” and it runs until May 6th. It’s worth checking this out, and also seeing the school campus with it’s visible ceramics program. Great that Josh is giving these students insight into individuality and risk.

Josh Herman Exhibit

Josh Herman Exhibit

Josh has a profound interest in the natural progressions of the creative landscape. When he dives into a piece, he has no preconceived notion or bullet point plan. He prefers to watch the piece unfold before his eyes, as he lets go of his desire to tweak and shape the clay to his will. “I like watching the pieces reveal themselves,” he said.

The nature of ceramics lends itself to a particularly unique endeavor that demands a portion of evolving outside of total human control. As he mentioned, the process is about 75% his energy, and 25% of natural shaping. You never want to fully control the plastic clay and the effect of the firing always yields surprises (even after hundreds of glaze tests). This lends to an exciting variability every time he opens the kiln door. The clay speaks to him, and he listens intently with the powerful sensory engagement of the subconscious mind.

 

Design by Josh Herman

Design by Josh Herman

Artists require rituals that access a depth of being behind the daily active mind. Josh for instance spends lots of time tending to his garden to find a level of mindfulness where the natural growth of his succulents and fruit trees gives inspiration to the stacked forms in his artwork. The stacks build off each other, completing particular thoughts and feelings that contribute to a full collection of emotions and experiences.

Design by Josh Herman

Design by Josh Herman

Josh exhibits a passion that illuminates the nuanced integrity we see across the world of art and design. This fervor stems from the inherent power of authenticity, which sparks a clarity of mind – and brings a new appreciation of form and balance into our lives. Here is an example of one of his signature forms.

Design by Josh Herman

Design by Josh Herman

For more about Josh Herman’s art, visit his website.