December 18, 2008
For immediate release
Signostics' new personal ultrasound wins international design award.
Adelaide-based medical devices company Signostics has won a GOOD DESIGN Award from Chicago's Museum of Architecture and Design for its Signos personal ultrasound device. Signos received the award in the competitive medical equipment category, impressing judges with its innovative qualities and world class design.
The device, the smallest portable ultrasound available, was designed by leading design consultancy Design+Industry.
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd run the GOOD DESIGN Awards to highlight the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world.
The awards honour outstanding design in anything from a paperclip to a Boeing 787 Dreamliner or NASA Space Ship.
"The GOOD DESIGN Award is a great endorsement for our company," said Stewart Bartlett, Signostics Chief Operating Officer. "The product is a true visual stethoscope, able to be worn around the user's neck or carried in their pocket."
Design+Industry Managing Director Murray Hunter said "Signos is a revolution in health delivery providing physicians with a simpler, more affordable, portable and highly innovative solution. Winning a GOOD DESIGN Award is recognition of our dedication to design and engineering excellence."
This year the museum received hundreds of entries from more than 48 countries for the awards program.
Now in its 59th year, GOOD DESIGN is the oldest and the most prestigious international industrial and graphic design awards program. Winning submissions are scheduled for exhibition at The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in June 2009. For more information on the awards please visit The Chicago Athenaeum website www.chi-athenaeum.org.
For media inquiries contact:
Corina Cooper, Marketing Manager
(650) 327-4000
ccooper@signosticsmedical.com
www.signosticsmedical.com
