Vögele Vision Pavers Win International Design Awards

The tracked and wheeled 8-ft. (2.4-meter) Vision Series pavers of Vögele America, Inc. are the recipients of two international awards for modern product design.

In the United States, the Vögele Vision 5100-2 (tracked) and Vision 5103-2 (wheeled) pavers won a GOOD DESIGN™ 2008 award, one of six in the Industrial class, and were the only construction equipment so honored. The 5100-2 and 5103-2 were introduced at Conexpo-Con/Agg 2008 in March of that year.

The Good Design Awards are presented annually by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Vision Series designers honored were Ralf Weiser, Joseph Vögele AG, Mannheim, Germany, and Ulrich Ewringmann, Martin Buchmann and Boris Eickhoff, Dialogform GmbH, Taufkirchen, Germany. The pavers were designed exclusively for the North American market and are distributed by Vögele America, Inc., Chambersburg, Pa.

Separately, in Germany, the entire Vision Series line of 8-ft. and 10-ft. (3.0-meter) pavers was honored with an iF Product Design Award 2009 from the iF International Forum Design GmbH in Hannover.

The iF product design awards seek to recognize early-on new trends in design. Award criteria include quality of design, workmanship, choice material, degree of innovativeness, environmental compatibility, functionality, ergonomics, visualization of use, safety, brand value and branding, and universal design appeal. Winning entries were selected from a total of 2,808 entries from 39 different countries.

The Good Design 2008 Awards
Back in the United States, the Good Design 2008 awards publicly acknowledge and elevate the best and finest new design and design innovation for products and graphics designed or manufactured between 2006 and 2008. The awards spotlight new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, and invention and originality in design. They are the world’s oldest and most coveted design competition for manufactured goods, for both consumer and business-to-business products.

Founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., the Good Design competition bestows international recognition upon the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing design which “stretches the envelope” beyond what is considered basic for products and consumers.

Vision 5100-2 and 5103-2 Pavers
The Vision 5100-2 and 5103-2 pavers provide contractors an extremely versatile machine in a powerful, compact and maneuverable package. They are designed for commercial and highway class applications and provide operators with unsurpassed comfort, visibility and ease of operation. Their design makes them the most maintenance-free pavers in their class.

Operators are benefiting from outstanding forward visibility, with unparalleled all-around visibility without turning. The slope of the machine and hood have been designed so the operator can see the sides, the hopper, and the conveyors in the back, without having to move around. The operator stations swing out from both edges of the machine, for superior visibility to the sides, behind and into the hopper.

Self-diagnostics are built into the new Vision Series. Fluid levels and other inspection points need not be checked each day. Instead they are monitored from a display panel, part of the Vögele Ergo-Plus ergonomic design for enhanced productivity.