Two IDEO projects are named Webby Honorees in the 17th Annual Webby Awards, recognizing excellence on the Internet. Sesame Street’s Elmo Calls App was selected in the Best Use of Device Camera category and Sunlight Foundation’s Sitegeist App was recognized in two categories — Best Use of GPS or Location Technology category and Education and Reference category.

MyFord Mobile — the smartphone app that helps electric vehicle owners learn smarter driving behaviors — won a 2013 IxDA Award in the “optimizing category.”

The AIGA’s “Justified” Awards highlight design’s impact. Entries were judged based on their design attributes and whether their case for effectiveness was clear, compelling, and accessible. Wounded Warrior was one of 18 selected from over 400 great entries. Read the full Wounded Warrior design case study here.

Two IDEO projects have been selected as finalists in Fast Company‘s 2012 Innovation by Design Awards: Future Visions of Synthetic Biology in the concepts category, and the Faraday utility bike in the transportation category. Read more about the finalists on Co.Design.

In the 2012 Core77 Design Awards, electric propelled utility bike Faraday placed runner-up in the transportation category, while IDEO’s work on Future Visions of Synthetic Biology received professional notable in the speculative category.

IDEO was awarded 13 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) by the IDSA, with winning designs ranging from an open innovation platform to redesigning women's breast health journey.

Silver

• Elmo Calls App for Sesame Street (Web and App)
• Kiosk Consumer Experience Redesign for Redbox (User interface)
• Next Door for State Farm Insurance (Research)
• Next Door for State Farm Insurance (Service Design)
• OpenIDEO for IDEO (Design for the Majority)
• Radically Disruptive Empathy Lunch Workshop for IDEO (Design Research)
• Sacred Care for St. Joseph Health (Service Design)

Bronze

• Customer Care Strategy for Intuit Quickbooks (Design Strategy)
• Designs On— Packaging for IDEO (Packaging and Graphics)
• eReader Design Language for Kobo (Laptops and Notebooks)
• GE Mammography: Redesigning the Women's Breast Health Journey for GE and GE Healthcare (Design Research)
• Healthy Workplace for Kimberly Clark (Service Design)
• Room Wizard II for Steelcase (Office Equipment)

For more on the winners, read here.

IDEO’s Future of the Book concept wins a Webby in the Experimental & Weird Category.

Webby Honorees include IDEO.org for Charitable Organizations/Non-Profits and GoGo Inflight Portal for Best Navigation/Structure.

GOOD sought out 40 organizations with between 100 and 1,000 employees that are working for a smarter and better world. Check out the IDEO section under the “Creative” tab here.

The AIGA’s Making the Case awards demonstrate the measurable success and impact of great design. HackFwd and OpenIDEO were two of nine winners selected from hundreds of great entries. Read the full case studies here.

OpenIDEO takes home a silver Lovie Award in the Social & Community category. The Lovie Awards recognize the unique and resonant nature of the European Internet community. For more on the awards competition and OpenIDEO’s big win, visit lovieawards.eu.

The Oregon Manifest Creative Collaborations Bicycle Challenge has come to a close with the announcement of the People’s Choice winner. Voters chose Faraday, the bike designed and built by IDEO and Rock Lobster Cycles. Read more about the Faraday here. A journal of the bike’s build over the past eight months can be found on Core77.

Design for Change, a design based school competition which started with the Design for Giving contest in 2009, has won an INDEX award in the work category. Design for Change is the largest global movement designed to give children the opportunity to put their ideas into action.

IDEO also had several INDEX finalists including Lars Hinrichs’ HackFwd, OpenIDEO and AskNature.org. Read more about the 2011 awards here.

OpenIDEO — IDEO’s networked innovation platform — was awarded the winner of the Service Design category in Core77’s first ever awards program. IDEO’s work for Bedsider took the win for strategy/research while HackFwd, Steelcase node and Future of the Book were awarded runner up and professional notable awards respectively.

For more on the awards, read here.

IDEO was awarded 12 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) by the IDSA and Fast Company, with winning designs ranging from the future of self-service banking to designing homes for wounded veterans.

Gold

• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Service Design)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Research)

Silver

• The Design for Giving Contest for Riverside School (Service Design)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Transportation)
• Redefining Self-Service Banking for BBVA Group (Commercial & Industrial Products)
• node Chair for Steelcase (Office & Productivity)
• ’Wounded Warriors’ for Clark Realty (Research)

Bronze

• Balloonimals iPhone app (Interactive Product Experiences)
• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Research)
• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Design Strategy)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Interiors)
• media:scape for Steelcase (Office & Productivity)

For more on the winners, read here.

OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation platform, and Grover’s Number Special, a Sesame Street iPhone app designed in collaboration with IDEO, both won Webby Awards in the Community and Games-Tablet & All Other categories, respectively.