Designing Unseen Wellness is a design competition organized by the department of Industrial Design of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands, supported by the Italian wellness company Technogym. We hope to involve young designers and design students in the discussion about the role of pleasure and wellness in interactive products. The competition is part of the Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2005 conference that unites international players from both industry and academics to share the newest developments in the field.

We warmly invite young designers from all over the world to join the discussion through this competition. The best 10 are invited to exhibit at the conference (trip to the Netherlands and conference fee included) and get a shot at 3500 Euro prize money. So do submit and show the world your previously unseen vision on wellness.

The prize winners are:

1st Prize of EUR 2000: Simon Crilley - The Weight Dias (Australia)
2nd Prize of EUR 1000: Marie Hartmann & Kyle Kilbourn - Toby (Denmark)
3rd Prize of EUR 500: Aleix Ingles Elias – Intertia Bike (Spain)

The prize winners recieved their prize at the Philips High Tech campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We congratulate the winners and the other finalists with their prizes and their wonderful submissions.

The 10 Finalists

We were delighted to recieve 58 submissions from all over the world. Thanks to all submitters for their contributions. This is the jury's selection of the 10 finalists:

Prashant Chandra – Gameout machine (India)
Simon Crilley – The weight Dias (Australia)
Aleix Ingles Elias – Intertia Bike (Spain)
Kyle Kilbourn - Toby (Denmark)
Qin Lei – Not only persevering spirit but also happy life (China)
Tao Ma - Cyclonic (China)
Barthelemy Maillet – Gyria, coexperience through simple physical exercise (France)
Chris McIntyre – Technogym breathe (Great Britain)
Marco Nicora – UC the Urban Contest (Italy)
Katarzyna Szmajduch – WO!W (Germany)

The finals will take place on the 27th of October at the DPPI conference.