Red Dot
Awards are strange things. They celebrate a finished project, but they rarely tell the story of the people behind it. They don’t show the conversations, the experiments, the failures, or the countless hands that shaped the final result.


Design awards and collaboration are rarely discussed together — but they should be. Every award we’ve received points not to a single author, but to a room full of people who cared too much to cut corners. Design awards and collaboration, when you trace them back, are really just evidence that the right people trusted each other at the right moment.
I’ve been fortunate to receive Red Dot Awards—exactly for these two that deserved them.
The first was for Kocbek. The second for Midva Vidva Onadva.
They couldn’t be more different. Different products. Different challenges. Different aesthetics. Yet they share something that matters far more than the award itself.
Both projects were built with extraordinary people.
From the very beginning, I wanted them to be exceptional—not because I was chasing another trophy, but because they deserved the highest level of care. Every detail was questioned. Every material mattered. Every decision was made by people who genuinely cared about their craft.
The Red Dot came later.
It simply confirmed what we already knew: when talented people trust one another and obsess over every detail, the work has a chance to become timeless.
These awards remind me that I am the designer that I always wanted to be.
They remind me that the best projects are never created alone. They are built by people who bring different skills, different perspectives, and the same commitment to making something worth remembering.
That’s what I see when I look at these two Red Dots.
Not trophies.
But the fingerprints of remarkable craftspeople.
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