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JDi Design Wins an IDEA Award

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JDi Design Wins an IDEA Award

The TazzyTotes™ Produce Bag received the  Bronze IDEA Eco Design Award for its eco-chic solution for the instore produce bags.  JDi Design’s winning design embodies ecological principles at every stage of its lifecycle.  It also features a unique bin label and an erasable marker for writing names or bulk bin numbers with a non-toxic dry erase pen, eliminating the need for instore sealing and tagging.

Vancouver, Canada, JDi Design Inc., a design firm pioneering eco. product development has been recognised for it’s commitment to design excellence with the award of the prestigious International Design Excellence Award from the IDSA. (Industrial Designers Society of America)

The produce bag is part of a modular system designed around everyday shopping needs, from the moment you go shopping until you finally reach home.

The design team, Adrian van Wijk, Sandy Lam, Sam Richards and Jamie McDonald from Vancouver, British Columbia, focused on identifying gaps in the emerging trend to use reusable bags. The result is an international ecological and economic success. “It is very satisfying to see the thought and care we put into a seemly simple product receiving international recognition as well as market place success.” says Adrian van Wijk, Design Director at JDi Design. The tazzyTotes products have been on the market since June 2009.

About the JDi Design Inc.

JDi Design is a group of design professionals incorporated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. JDi Design is distinguished by applying creative thinking to the user-focused design of products and services. JDi Design provides eco. product design and development services taking ideas from concept to production in a variety of industries.

  Environmental Statement

JDi Design is committed to environmental sustainability and strives to harmonize its clients’ business objectives with consumer needs in balance with nature.

About the IDEA.

The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is a yearly award partly sponsored by Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), and is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy.

About the TazzyTotes

The TazzyTotes™ distribute an eco-chic range of modular shopping tote solutions designed around your everyday shopping needs, the core product idea was born from a desire to do the right thing while at the same time, getting rid of all the plastic bags!

 

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JDi Design Awarded the Prestigious “red dot” Award

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JDi Design Awarded the Prestigious “red dot” Award

The Orgafile filing cabinet is a first in the industry to provide typical fixed-unit cabinet features including: an anti tilt mechanism, a general cabinet lock and a single module safety catch in a contemporary post consumer extruded wooden filing module. This unique modular filing system brings a breath of “clean” air with its style, feasibility and modularity to an established market.

JDi Design Inc., a design firm pioneering eco product development has received the prestigious red dot Design Award for their innovative “Eco, grow-as-you-go” Orgafile Modular Filing System designed for OrgaFile (Pty) Ltd. The red dot Awards are the largest and most renowned design competition in the world, presented annually by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany.JDi Design’s innovation in the Orgafile Modular Filing System proves that eco effective design for mass production is both sustainable and makes for good business. The jury of international renowned design experts awarded the Orgafile product with the red dot quality seal for design excellence. This recognition is received by a select few chosen from over 4,200 entries coming from 57countries.

The design team, Adrian van Wijk and Jamie McDonald from Vancouver, British Columbia, focused the early design research on sustainable production techniques.  Later working with Orgafile’s unique market insight the team sought to develop a design to solve the business problems of minimizing production infrastructure, providing value to the end user and leaving noticeably less of an environmental impact than competitive products.  “I am very satisfied with our design effort,” says Adrian van Wijk, Design Director at JDi Design. “Our green design solution has been recognized with best in class product design awards now, in both North America, Europe, and Africa.”   

About the JDi Design Inc.

JDi Design is a group of design professionals incorporated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. JDi Design is distinguished by applying creative thinking to the user-focused design of products and services. JDi Design provides green product design and development services taking ideas from concept to production in a variety of industries.

Environmental Statement

JDi Design is committed to environmental sustainability and strives to harmonize its clients’ business objectives with consumer needs in balance with nature.

About Orgafile

Orgafile is in the business of offering the best solution for customers wanting to access their offline data/information effortlessly. Suitable for every home, suitable for every small or large office.

About red dot

With more than 12,000 submissions from more than 60 countries, the international “red dot design award” is the largest and most renowned design competition in the world.

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JDi Wins an SABS Award.

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JDi Wins an SABS Award.

Orgafile wins the an SABS chairmen’s design award for its innovative filing system.

JDi Design and Orgafile are Winners of the 2008 SABS Design Excellence Chairperson’s Award.

The Orgafile modular filing unit is an eco-friendly office storage solution that can grow and be rearranged as the clients needs evolve. The modular design allows you to add or move extra drawers to the unit as the need arises.  It embodies 3 unique patents, allowing for tool free assembly and other safety features.

The adjudicators said: “This is a truly ingenious product and all aspects of the design have been resolved.”

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JDi Design wins a “Best in Canada” Award.

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JDi Design wins a “Best in Canada” Award.

Orgafile, an eco friendly modular filing cabinet designed by JDi Design of Vancouver BC,  has won the Best in Canada Design Award for product design.  The Best in Canada Design Competition is an annual award acknowledging outstanding achievements by Canadian designers.

 The Orgafile design challenge was to create a high quality, low cost, easy-to-use filing system.  The foundation of Orgafile is a modular, easily expandable, 2-drawer cabinet.  Customers buy the storage they need and then add more drawers as their filing needs grow.  By choosing a modular approach to the problem the consumers’ initial investment is minimized allowing them to ‘grow as they go’.

At the heart of the Orgafile design are 3 key patented features,  LinkFit, DrawerLock and TouchFit, all designed and developed by JDi Design.

LinkFit is a tool-free stack and click system that allows drawers to be added to a cabinet and secured by simply sliding them into position. 2 drawers becomes 3, 4 or more and a 5 drawer cabinet can be split into separate 2 and 3 drawer units. 

DrawerLock prevents the drawers of individual cabinet modules from opening until the cabinet has been fully assembled.

TouchFit is and anti-tilt locking system, which ensures that only one drawer can be opened at a time preventing the cabinet from tilting or toppling. 

Design for the environment was considered at every stage of the development process and Orgafile is proud to be a market leader in sustainable office furniture.  Drawer fronts and side panels are made from extruded wood, a product that requires no post-finishing like painting or varnishing and is available in variety of colors. It is made from 90% recycled post consumer wood fiber and 10% polyolefin and can be easily recycled. The product contains no harmful chemicals, VOC’s or urea formaldehyde.  The filing system is based on a standard German Alpha Numeric system which was optimized by JDi design to be more space efficient. in order to minimize the material needed for the cabinet and save valuable office space.   Steel components have been minimised.   All of these features help minimizes the product’s environmental impact.