The Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture and Design, in collaboration with The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, has announced the winners of the 59th annual GOOD DESIGN award, and the Ammunition-designed Element by Fuego has won in the household products category.

GOOD DESIGN aims to recognize "the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered basic product and consumer design." This year's competition received a record number of entries from over 40 countries.

The GOOD DESIGN competition was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. and designers Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames. The competition bills itself as "the oldest and the world's most recognized program for design excellence worldwide."

Winning entries will be displayed at the annual GOOD DESIGN SHOW at the Chicago Atheneum in June 2010.

Learn more about the GOOD DESIGN awards here, Ammunition's work on the Fuego Element here, and visit the Fuego Element web site here.

Ammunition founder and partner Robert Brunner spoke to a full house this past week at London's Design Museum. Brunner spoke on Ammunition and his personal approach to design, using principles from his book Do You Matter? and recent Ammunition projects as examples.

London's Design Museum is one of the foremost museums of contemporary design. Recent speakers at the Design Museum have included Alberto Alessi, Vivienne Westwood, Ross Lovegrove, Richard Sapper and Zaha Hadid.

Read the accompanying article in Design Week here.

Barnes & Noble has announced the new, Ammunition-designed e-Reader, “nook,” in a special event in New York. Ammunition developed the industrial design, service design, user interface, accessory system and packaging for the new product.

The device is slim and compact, with minimal buttons and an easy to hold, contoured back. nook features a color touch screen LCD for navigation and a six-inch E Ink display for reading. Users will have access to over one million ebooks, newspapers and magazines via both wi-fi and AT&T's 3G network, as well as the ability to digitally lend books to others. nook features expandable memory and is built on an Android operating system.

nook will be available at the end of November for $259.00. Barnes & Noble is taking pre-orders now at www.nook.com and in stores beginning October 21, 2009.

Download the press release

The new TimeTuner app, designed by Ammunition for DreamSurface, is the most fully featured clock radio app for iPhone and iPod touch.

The application includes more than 14,000 international radio stations, powered by RadioTime®, and allows users to wake up to their favorite radio station, an iPod song, playlist or custom designed tone whether at home or traveling.

Other features include multiple alarms, location awareness, assignable presets, a unique sleep timer scroll bar, and a fail-safe backup alarm.

DreamSurface LLC is an application development company founded by Ammunition's partners dedicated to bringing classic product and graphic design integrity to mobile computing.

The TimeTuner app is now available internationally from the App Store for a price of US$2.99 / £1.19/ €1.59. For more information, please visit www.dreamsurface.com.

Ammunition's collaboration with music and fashion icon Lady Gaga, entitled HeartBeats, premiered this week at IFA, the worlds largest Consumer Electronics trade fair.

The in-ear headphones are the newest addition to the highly-successful, Ammuntion-designed Beats by Dr. Dre headphone line, a partnership with Interscope Records, Dr. Dre and Monster Cable.

Available in three colors—rose, black and silver—the multifaceted metal headphones feature a flat, tangle free cable and compact but high-power audio drivers. In keeping with their namesake, HeartBeats by Lady Gaga are uniquely intended as both a fashion accessory and high-end audio product.

Heartbeats by Lady Gaga will be available from Monster in October.

Learn more about Heartbeats here, and see more of Ammunition's work for Beats by Dr. Dre here.

Ammunition Partner Robert Brunner was the closing keynote speaker for the 13th annual FUSE conference on design, culture, identity and packaging, held April 22–24, 2009 in San Francisco, California. The focus of this year’s conference was creating authenticity by celebrating the power of collective knowledge through collaboration.

Robert’s talk focused on the idea of product as the defining point of a company’s relationship with its constituents, and the need to drive emotion and authenticity through that relationship.