Gorenje Group has added to
new Red Dots to a series of these awards for superior design. This year, the
40-member international jury presented them to our Simplicity 2.1 induction hob
under the Gorenje brand, and a tumble dryer under the Asko brand. Vying for
this year's Red Dot awards were no less than 5500 products from 55 countries,
competing in three categories. Gorenje Group's design achievements have been
among the recipients of these awards for over a decade, which stands witness to
the excellence of our design and to the innovativeness of the products marketed
under our brands.
This
year's Red Dots are the 45th and 46th in a row for Gorenje Group. Indeed,
Gorenje was the first Slovenian company to receive this prestigious design
award back in 2005. A decade and a half later, excellence and innovation in
design remain the hallmarks of our home appliance concepts.
"Gorenje
was again pleased to receive the Red Dot design award. This time, we won it in
the "Red Dot winner award" category for our induction hob. The hob is
a part of the third generation of a successful line of cooking appliances
called Simplicity, which embodies the story of our brand – Life Simplified.
This line includes products that meet the major needs of our users while
relieving them of the burden of excessive functions and settings. We employed
carefully thought-out solutions on the induction hob, which involves the use of
sensors, in order to simplify the key challenges that the users face in daily
preparation of quality and tasty meals", explains Lidija Pritržnik,
director of product design at Gorenje.
Third generation of Gorenje's popular Simplicity line
Red-Dot-winning
induction hob is a part of Gorenje's Simplicity 2.1 line that adapts to a broad
range of cooking needs. A large cooking area consists of four separate heating
elements; the two on the left-hand side are bridgeable, i.e. they can be merged
into a single large cooking zone. The sensors in each heating element recognize
the position and size of the pan and activate the relevant control keys. A
special function also connects the cooking zones into a bridged zone if it
recognizes that the pan is too large for a single cooking zone. Interactive
graphics indicate the activated heating zones and synchronously follow the
movement of the pans. The spacious cooking surface is outlined by a discrete
pattern that protects the surface from damage, separates the control keys from
the cooking zone, and makes sure the induction hob matches the other appliances
of the Simplicity 2.1 line. The Life Simplified brand promise is also supported
by many other functions. Smart Timer automatically displays the cooking time,
even if the countdown timer is not set – when the cooking hob is switched on,
it starts to automatically time the cooking process.
The product's technical platform
comes from a new generation of Gorenje's induction hobs, but it is updated with
innovative functions such as automatic pan recognition and the option to bridge
two adjacent cooking zones. Thus, the hob offers even more flexibility and
simplicity of use. As emphasized by the author of the award-winning cooking hob
and head of the Gorenje Design Lab Matevž Popič, "focusing on the user,
rather than blindly following the state of the art in the market, results in
optimum operation, freedom of choice, and intuitive automatic or semi-automatic
hob functions." These advantages help the users in a meaningful way,
provide suggestions, connect, or choose the modes needed during cooking. The
cooking hob with a carefully thought-out structure and set of functions meets
the varied and even the most ambitious wishes of our users, while remaining
reasonably priced.
Red dot for ASKO tumble dryer
This year's second Red Dot was
awarded for the tumble dryer under our premium brand ASKO. It stands out with
minimalist design, superior materials and make, and advanced user functions.