PA Consulting picks up six Good Design Awards

The final 12 months have seen PA Consulting concerned in plenty of landmark design initiatives, together with the design of the subsequent technology of the UK’s EV cost factors. Because of this, design groups from the agency have been honoured with six Good Design Awards.  

Hosted by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Structure and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press, the Good Design Awards are one of many oldest and most prestigious awards programmes on the earth. For the final 75 years, the occasion has sought to rejoice greatest practices within the trade, and to honour each merchandise and trade leaders in design and manufacturing which have chartered new instructions, and pushed the envelope for aggressive merchandise within the international market.

PA Consulting is a world skilled companies agency, made up of greater than 4,000 strategists, innovators, consultants, digital specialists, engineers, technologists and designers. The agency has deep experience in client and manufacturing, defence and safety, power and utilities, monetary companies, authorities and public companies, well being and life sciences, and transport. As such, it’s repeatedly tasked with serving to to design main new merchandise for international companies and governments.

This work has seen PA lauded for its design work on the 2023 Good Design Awards. The agency picked up a complete of six prizes on the event, with the agency’s Head of Design, Richard Watson, stating the information was “testomony to the distinctive work that our groups and purchasers are doing collectively.”

Watson continued, “We create best-in-class design that provides worth for our purchasers and finish customers; design that shapes the long run. And our sturdy holistic capabilities – analysis, technique, design, engineering and science – are key to delivering inspirational new manufacturers, merchandise and experiences.”

PA picked up the Transportation Award on the occasion, for its famous position in serving to design “the UK’s prettiest charge point”. The chargepoint was developed with the Royal Faculty of Artwork and was commissioned by the UK Transport Secretary, earlier than being unveiled on the COP26 convention in Glasgow.

Within the Graphic Design Award, PA’s inventive leads Enri Moreno and Robin Marich, and designer Gigi Aldrich from Astro Studios (a part of PA Consulting) had been awarded the Graphic Design award for his or her work on the model identification design for Advocord. And the group at Design Companions – one other subsidiary of PA – was honoured with the Industrial Award for his or her work with Picavi Sensible Mount, after serving to to reimagine and design the Picavi Sensible Mount which helps to streamline the warehouse selecting course of for workers.

In the meantime, the Family Award additionally went to Design Companions for the agency’s experience in design and engineering to create the Cricut Hat Press – utilizing heat-based merchandise to switch designs onto hats, with Bluetooth connectivity to hyperlink the gadget to Cricut’s app, monitoring instances and temperatures. The corporate was additionally celebrated with two Shopper Electronics Awards for Design Companions’ ongoing collaboration with Logitech, for the G303 Shroud Version Gaming Mouse and the Signature M650 Mouse, empowering folks to immerse higher in work or play.

PA’s design groups proceed to assist firms world wide develop main improvements. These embody the primary best-selling cellular recreation controller for iPhones for Backbone, a collaboration with pharmaceutical packaging firm PulPac to deliver the world’s first dry moulded fibre pill pack to market, and an inclusive line of magnificence instruments for Information Magnificence to make it simpler for anybody to create any magnificence look, no matter their bodily situation.