Design & Innovation Awards

International recognition for your latest product innovation

2011 Winners (in alphabetical order):

• Photon Beard - PhotonSpot Nova 270
  A new concept in low heat, energy efficient location lighting
  
  
• Quantel - QTube
  QTube is a global media workflow allowing users to work with content anywhere in the world
  
  
• Snell - Archangel Ph.C-HD
  Real-time restoration system for film and video originated content
  
  
• Sony - BVM-E250
  A 25-inch OLED reference monitor for ultimate picture precision and stability
  
  
• Vision Research - Phantom v641
  A digital high-speed camera offering ultra-slow motion playback
  
  

Sony's BVM-E250 earned the IABM Peter Wayne Award, which represents the best of new outstanding products and technologies that offer a significant contribution to the broadcast and media industry. IABM Awards for Excellence in Design and Innovation were presented to Photon Beard and its PhotonSpot Nova 270, a new concept in low-heat, energy-efficient location lighting; Quantel and its QTube global media workflow, which allows users to work with content from anywhere in the world; Snell and its Archangel Ph.C-HD real-time restoration system for film- and video-originated content; and Vision Research and its Phantom v641 digital high-speed camera with ultra-slow motion playback.

The IABM Award for Excellence in Design and Innovation recognises products that offer significant solutions or new opportunities to the industry. Award winners were selected by an international panel of distinguished judges who visited finalists on the IBC 2011 show floor to see the products in action. The results were announced at the IABM Awards Ceremony at IBC 2011 on Saturday, Sept. 10th.

To read more about the winners and the awards ceremony please view our latest IABM press release.

About

The IABM Awards for Design & Innovation recognise innovation within the broadcast supply industry and are open to any company to apply.

There are 6 awards in total: the IABM Peter Wayne Award for Design & Innovation named in honour of Peter Wayne, past IABM chairman and key influencer within the broadcast supply industry and 5 IABM Awards for Excellence in Design & Innovation.

All entries are judged by our international panel of independent judges who draw up a shortlist of 10 candidates. These 10 are then whittled down to 5 finalists. Each finalist is visited by the judging panel during the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam and asked to give a product demonstration of their entry. The winners were announced on the Saturday evening of IBC at the IABM Awards reception.

Further information

To learn more about the IABM Awards for Design & Innovation 2011 you can download the IABM Awards brochure.

 

 

 

 

Judges

Konstantin Glasman			St Petersburg University			Russia
Peter Smith			Consultant			USA
David Meares			DJM Consultancy			UK
Philip Laven			DVB & World DMB			Switzerland/UK
Alexsandar Todorovic			Kompani			Serbia
Roger Blakeway			SCTE			UK
Gianfranco Barbieri			Consultant			Italy
Lolita Banm			Consultant			India
Roland Tan			MediaCorp (Singapore)			Singapore
Mehmet Kesim			Anadolu University Turkey			Turkey
Jonathan Marks			Critical Distance Media Lab			The Netherlands
Clyde Smith			Turner Broadcasting			USA
John Fletcher			BBC			UK
Martin Salter			IABM			UK

Previous winners

Past winners of the The IABM Awards for Design & Innovation include PHABRIX, Sony, Mode-AL, Winchester Electronics, Tektronix and Quantel proving that company size is really not an obstacle. It's all about the innovation!