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This year’s DAME Award winners spanned the whole of the leisure marine sector, with products for the smallest boats up to high-end superyacht equipment
2024 DAME Design Awards winners announced TeamO’s Offshore 150N Hi-Lift Lifejacket & Harness was crowned overall winner of the 33rd DAME Awards on Tuesday in front of a large audience of leading marine professionals at the METSTRADE Breakfast Briefing. The jury also identified eight category winners, nine Special Mentions and named two Environmental Design Award winners. The 33rd DAME Award winners for 2024 were announced on Tuesday morning at the annual Breakfast Briefing before the opening of METSTRADE. This year the DAME jury inspected 114 entries from 28 countries. It nominated a total of 58 products for inclusion in the DAME Design
Awards showcase and identified a winner for each of the eight DAME categories. The jury also identified nine Special Mentions (commended runner-up entries) and named two Environmental Design Award winners. TUDelft School for Industrial Design Engineering senior lecturer Arjen Jansen presented the overall winner of the DAME Award 2024 to the TeamO Hi-Lift 150N lifejacket. “It was very encouraging to see such a strong field of entries spanning the whole of the leisure marine sector, with products for people and the smallest boats right up to high-end superyacht equipment,” said jury chair Andre Hoek. “In addition to genuine breakthrough launches, the jury was equally pleased to see many products where designers
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have iteratively improved the user experience and exploited latest technologies to meet emerging demands. Smart design unlocks the door to a fully sustainable approach, in manufacturing, recyclability, longevity, usability and serviceability. “Our focus was inevitably drawn towards the high number of entries driven by developing technologies that will serve the marine industry’s future needs in areas such as electrification and networking,” Hoek said. “But in a close-run finish, it was an excellent new development in safety that was unanimously named outright winner of this year’s awards. A perfect reminder of how we can never stop improving product categories that have been an essential part of boating for decades.”