Odersun‘s Solarmodule-Designer Receives red dot design award

Berlin, Germany, 2nd September 2011: The Solarmodule-Designer is an online configuration software tool, which enables interactive design of an Odersun’s customized solar module for building integrated photovoltaics (BiPV). This free of charge tool has been online on Odersuns Website since May and was only recently awarded with the prestigious red dot design award for communication design. Odersun has now published the corresponding iPad app available at iTunes.

The online tool and its iPad app have been developed by Odersun AG and the German design network Plural, Kilian Krug and Markus Lerner. Addressing architects, façade engineers and builders, the tool enables an easy, interactive and customized configuration of solar modules in terms of form, size, appearance, build-up and electrical connection. The solar module, as designed by the user, can be exported as a PDF or a CAD file for direct integration into architectural designs.

“There is some belief that solar modules are not fit for building integration, as they are supposedly unattractive and not flexible enough in size, form, material and design. The Odersun Solarmodule-Designer finally breaks this paradigm,” says Dr. Hein van der Zeeuw, CEO of Odersun AG. “We wanted to convey highly complex technical information about the customization of our products in a comprehensible and practical way. The Solarmodule-Designer did the job for us. We are very proud of the recognition, which both the application and its designers received.”

The red dot is one the largest and most prestigious international design competitions. In a selection process that lasted several days, 15 internationally renowned design experts judged every single project of thousands of entries from 40 countries. Only selected entries were awarded with a red dot.

LINKS

iPad-App
http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/solar-designer/id453784184

Online version
http://solarmodule-designer.odersun.com/

Odersun AG
www.odersun.de

Plural Visual Communication
http://pluralvisual.de/#1618445/Solar-Module-Designer-Odersun

Red Dot Award
www.red-dot.org

CONTACT
Odersun AG
Korinna Penndorf, Corporate Communications
Phone: +49(0)335 56334001
Mobile: +49(0)172 2380110
Email: presse@odersun.de
Web: www.odersun.com

ODERSUN AG
Odersun AG designs and manufactures customized solar products using a proprietary, worldwide patented, thin-film technology (CIS – copper indium disulphide). Its manufacturing process enables the company to produce solar cells that can be assembled into solar modules of virtually any size, form, design or any power, in flexible glass packaging. This adaptability is decisive for applications of building integrated photovoltaics (BiPV).

The company is backed by an international group of leading investors including Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures (UK), Virgin Green Fund (US/UK), Advanced Technology & Materials (China), PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (US), AGF Private Equity (a member of Allianz Group, France) and Valor KG (Austria).

RED DOT DESIGN AWARD
The red dot design award is the largest design competition worldwide. Since 1954 the Design Centre Nordrhein Westfalen, formerly Industrieform e.V., honours outstanding design achievements. The highly sought-after “red dot” has been established since as an internationally recognized quality label and is awarded in various disciplines. The winning works are exhibited in the red dot design museum, which hosts the largest contemporary design collection worldwide.