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17.03.2010 - Wedemark

Listening in style: Eight Sennheiser headphones win red dot design awards

Just a few weeks ago, Sennheiser won six iF product design awards from the International Forum Design. Once more, the audio specialist is celebrating having secured yet another host of awards for its headphones – in all, eight of this year’s famous red dot design awards have gone to Sennheiser products. 
 
“We really are delighted that our products have done so well in the red dot design competition,” says Susanne Seidel, President of Global Marketing at Sennheiser. In the entertainment technology category the top-of-the-range HD 800, the new RS 170 wireless headphones, the PX 210 BT Bluetooth model and the HD 238 Precision mini headphones were a hit with the judges, while in the computers category awards went to the PC 360 G4ME and PC 330 G4ME gaming headsets as well as the PC 31 and PC 230 PC headsets.
 
“Electronics and entertainment are becoming ever more prominent as part of leisure-time activities. People like to listen to music no matter where they are and this trend is, in turn, influencing the demands being made on headphone design” explains Susanne Seidel. “When making their decision to purchase a particular headphone or headset, consumers also express their commitment to sound and sound quality. That’s why with our products, design is always teamed with high sound quality,” continues Susanne Seidel. Winning the red dot awards once more highlights Sennheiser’s ability to combine superb audio expertise with excellent design capabilities.
 
Clear design, enhanced functionality and first-class sound quality – a combination that also went down well with the international jury at the red dot design awards 2010. This year, judges received submissions from close to 60 countries in all and selected award winners across 17 different product categories. 
 
Fans of design who would like to see the award-winning products for themselves can do so from 5 July at the red dot design museum in Essen. During a special four-week exhibition entitled “Design on Stage”, all the products will be on display in the European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010. Immediately afterwards comes “red dot on tour”, a touring exhibition that takes the winning products to a wide range of design metropolis all over the world. Last year’s stop-off points included Dubai, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Moscow, Singapore, Beijing and Shenzhen. More information about this year’s exhibition venues plus all the product descriptions will be available at www.red-dot.org from 5 July.

About the red dot design awards
With over 12,000 registrations from close to 60 countries, the red dot design award is one of the world’s biggest design competitions. Submissions are divided into product design, communication design and design concept sections, each of which is judged independently of the others. In product design an international jury of experts assess entries for their innovation, functionality, formal quality, ergonomic features, durability, symbolic and emotional content, product peripherals, the extent to which they are self-explanatory and their environmental compatibility in a total of 17 categories. Winning products receive the red dot as a quality seal of good design.

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About Sennheiser
The Sennheiser Group with its headquarters in Wedemark, near Hannover, Germany is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. The family-owned company established in 1945 recorded sales of over €385 million in 2008. Sennheiser employs over 2,100 people worldwide, around 55% of whom are in Germany. Sennheiser has manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and the USA and is represented worldwide by subsidiaries in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark (Nordic), Russia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Canada, Mexico and the USA and through long-term trading partners in other countries.  Also part of the Sennheiser Group are Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin (studio microphones), and the joint venture Sennheiser Communications A/S (headsets for PCs, offices and call centres). 
 
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