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 and Steelcase node were also awarded both runner up and professional notable awards.

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.

The iO-Flex surgical system, design by IDEO with Baxano Inc. won a gold MDEA award in the surgical equipment, instruments and supplies category. More on the award here.

BBVA’s ATM won an award in the “product interface” category of the iF Communication Design Awards 2011.

Read more here.

The LifePort Kidney Transporter from Organ Recovery Systems was recognized in the “Solution to a Consumer Product” category of the IDSA-sponsored awards. The LifePort Kidney Transporter improves kidney preservation, evaluation and transport prior to transplantation. Kidneys transported in the LifePort device have been shown to be 48 percent less likely to fail within the first year after the transplant than those preserved by the traditional icebox method.

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business recognized IDEO’s Tom Kelley with the Haas Innovation Award for his contributions to advancing the understanding and practice of innovation.

Learn more about the award and Tom’s journey on the Haas website.

In 2010, IDEO was given 12 IDEA awards by IDSA and Fast Company, with winning designs ranging from banking services to low-income housing communities to communications design work.
Read the article here.

IDEA Gold:

• PNC Virtual Wallet in the Interactive Product Experiences category (learn more here)
• Best Western in the Service Design category
• Lilly Patient Posters in the Research category (learn more here)

IDEA Silver:

• AT&T 3G MicroCell in the Communication Tools category
• (RED)WIRE in the Interactive Product Experiences category (learn more here)
• The Community Builders in the Research category (learn more here)
• Lilly HumatroPen 6mg, 12mg and 24mg in the Medical & Scientific Products category

IDEA Bronze:

• Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 in the Interactive Product Experiences category
• EILEEN FISHER in the Design Strategy category (learn more here)
• Ormondale Investigative Learning in the Design Strategy category (learn more here)
• QUE proReader in the Computer Equipment category
• Western Digital My Book and My Passport product suite in the Computer Equipment category (learn more here)

And IDEO’s Jeff Chapin won a Gold Award/Best in Show for his Easy Latrine.

Designed by IDEO with Bayer Diabetes Care, the Contour USB blood glucose monitor plugs directly into a computer and autolaunches diabetes management software. More on the silver award here.

IDEO’s PATTERNS site was named a Webby Award Honoree for Best Copy/Writing. Other honorees include Vanity Fair, NPR’s The Two-Way and BBC World Service.

The Bold Italic is also an official Webby Honoree for Best Magazine. Other honorees in this category include GQ, The New York Times’ T, and Mother Jones.

Virtual Wallet, an IDEO project with PNC Financial Services Group, has been chosen as a 2010 Edison Best New Products Award finalist. The awards celebrate the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison and work to increase America’s drive in the realm of innovation, creativity and ingenuity throughout the global economy.

Watch a live announcement about the awards on Discovery.com.  (The dial-in question number is (240) 662-1815.)
Read more about the Edison Awards here.

The USGBC, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and The Network of the Hospitality Industry (NEWH) together announced the winner of the first ever Sustainable Suite Design Competition. The competition showcased the best hospitality design strategies that boast environmental responsibility while enhancing the guest experience. Out of 65 professional design entries, IDEO and WATG took the top prize for their suite, Haptik.

For more information, click here.