Sigma Design, a product design and engineering firm headquartered in Vancouver, announced today that its work on the Lightspeed TangoTM Aviation Headset received the Red Dot Award for Product Design.
The award is an international distinction for high design quality. The international Red Dot jury chose winners from a pool of 5,200 products and innovations from 57 nations.
The result of collaboration between engineers at Lake Oswego-based Lightspeed and Sigma Design product designers, the headset is described as the first premium product to combine wireless innovation with unmatched comfort and exceptional noise cancellation. The system integrates seamlessly into an airplane’s existing audio system with a full-featured headset and wireless panel interface.
“We designed both the headset and panel interface to be models of user-interface simplicity,” said Mark Schoening, director of industrial design at Sigma Design. “Primary features are designed with the user in mind. The ergonomic design includes large, simple controls, comfortable ear-cups and a unique ambidextrous microphone design, combined with superior signal reliability and audio quality to ensure the pilot is confident and comfortable.”
The culmination of the 2016 Red Dot Award is an awards ceremony held at the Museum Essen in Germany on July 4. Products will be presented in the special exhibition “Design on Stage” for four weeks, and then will become part of the permanent museum exhibition.
