- Kia wins 5 iF Design Awards spanning a variety of name merchandise, occasions, and communications methods
- Kia EV9 leads the best way with coveted ‘Gold’ award standing
- EV9’s ‘Ki’ infotainment system additionally acknowledged for Opposites United-based design
- Additional awards for bodily, digital, and interactive design initiatives spherical out an distinctive consequence for Kia model
- iF Design Award winners chosen out of 10,800 entries from 72 nations, celebrating a design’s world influence
Kia achieved notable success on the 2024 iF Design Awards, which noticed 5 separate components of the corporate’s latest applications acknowledged by the famend design discussion board’s panel of knowledgeable judges.
The brand new Kia EV9, already an award winner on a number of fronts, added to its honorable outcomes with unique Gold award standing. Offered solely to the highest 75 successful designs worldwide, the extra accolade demonstrates the persevering with influence of Kia’s ‘Opposites United’ design philosophy.
Harnessing the artistic pressure generated by the divergent values of nature and modernity to ship a harmonious entire, Opposites United offers Kia’s designers with a framework by which to fuse a singular mixture of glossy, sculptural shapes and warranted, assertive geometry, delivering a strikingly modern but gracefully serene finish product.
“The EV9 represents our relentless push to interrupt new floor in design, connectivity, and value, in addition to our accountability to the atmosphere,” added Karim Habib, Government Vice President and Head of Kia World Design. “Receiving this award is a recognition of the dedication and dedication of numerous members of our workforce of designers and engineers; and highlights our drive to influence the trade and market with compelling, significant design.”
The EV9’s exterior exudes confidence, readability, and quietness with its upright stance, clear-cut strains and flat surfaces. The signature Digital Tiger Face showcases a visionary and futuristic look, accentuated by the Digital Sample Lighting Grille and vertical headlamps.
The inside, characterised by a flat flooring and lengthy wheelbase, takes benefit of the E-GMP platform to supply glorious spaciousness, whereas elements such because the seats and heart console are designed to provide a refined really feel and additional maximize the sense of area.
Moreover, the EV9’s cabin has been designed in step with Kia’s ‘three-stage sustainable design technique’. Embodying the model’s dedication to sustainability, the technique goals to make sure the gradual discount of animal-sourced leather-based, the introduction of Kia’s 10 must-have sustainability objects, and the promotion of analysis into pure materials growth.
In awarding the EV9 the iF judges said: “The Kia EV9 expands the aesthetic potentialities of a big SUV whereas advancing its practical efficiency. Its modern kind language makes different giant SUVs look old style, whereas swiveling second-row seats and quite a lot of smaller practical options make life on board extra social! Who stated sustainable design can’t be thrilling?”
Echoing the EV9’s exterior design, the SUV’s ‘Ki’ infotainment system boasts a graphic model that aligns with the values of Opposites United and enhances the car’s design, using eye-friendly, recognizable colours to spherical out a singular and modern model expertise for Kia. A winner within the Product Interfaces class, Ki relies round the important thing visible of a slanted line, representing rising tendencies and utilized throughout all infotainment components, from icons, to fonts, to the instrument cluster.
This diagonal edge promotes a particular and unified look whereas sustaining readability and cognition. Designed to make new options corresponding to electrical car charging extra intuitive and readable, the display-optimized UI configuration makes it simpler for customers to acknowledge sign transitions and contextualize charging and discharging data.
Along with the EV9’s successes, Kia was honored to have a number of different initiatives acknowledged by the iF judges together with the branding for Kia’s ’80 years of motion’ communications, its ‘Home windows of Inspiration’ commerce honest sales space design and ‘Kia EV Unplugged Floor’ interactive media expertise. All iF Design Award winners display the very important position which sturdy design performs throughout the Kia model.
All award-winning entries are introduced on www.ifdesign.com and printed within the iF Design App.
The iF Design Awards had been based in 1954 by iF Worldwide Discussion board Design GmbH in Hanover, one of many world’s main impartial design establishments. Annually round 10,800 designs from 72 nations are thought of for the awards, which honor and rejoice winners in 81 classes throughout 9 disciplines: Product, Communication, Packaging, Service Design, Structure, Inside Structure, Person Expertise (UX), Person Interface (UI) and Skilled Ideas. To be win an iF Design Award requires passing a rigorous two-stage choice course of adjudicated by famend design consultants, signifying a design’s modern relevance and world influence.
