Indian team wins Michelin’s 2016 ‘Mobility For All’ international design competition

Michelin today announced the 14 winners of the global 2016 Michelin Challenge Design, ‘Mobility for All – Designing for the Next Frontier.’ The Indian entry – comprising Rajshekhar Dass, Abu Huraira Shaikh, Sunny Duseja, Joji Isaac, Saksham Karunakar and Tajeshwar Kaul of Pune, India – has won the completion for their design entry ‘Google Community Vehicle’.

Works by individuals and teams of designers from Albania, Bahrain, Canada, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States were selected by a distinguished jury of the world’s top automotive designers and industry experts. The 14 winning designs from the 2016 entries were chosen from more than 875 registrants representing 68 countries. Over 15 years, Michelin Challenge Design has received a total of 8,268 entries from 121 countries.

“The winners of our 2016 Michelin Challenge Design showed tremendous creativity, innovation and focus on providing mobility in a number of diverse applications,” said Thom Roach, vice- president of original equipment marketing for Michelin North America. “We congratulate the winners on designing thought-provoking mobility solutions that can potentially provide a source of transportation to an underserved area of the world.”

“The jury was highly impressed by the ingenious, often simplistic and creative mobility solutions that were submitted for this year’s Michelin Challenge Design competition,” said Stewart Reed, Michelin Challenge Design jury chairman and chair of the Transportation Design Department, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. “Designing mobility for all is such an important topic in the automotive industry. Receiving entries from nearly 70 countries reinforces the importance and global nature of Michelin Challenge Design.”

WINNERS

First place: RajshekharDass, Abu Huraira Shaikh, Sunny Duseja, Joji Isaac, Saksham
Karunakar and TajeshwarKaul of Pune, India, for design entry ‘Google Community Vehicle’

Second place: Edgar Andres Sarmiento Garcia of Bogota, Colombia, for design entry ‘Arriero’

Third place: WooSung Lee and Chan Yeop Jeong of Gyeongsan-si, South Korea, for design entry ‘Bamboo Recumbent’

Additional winners (in alphabetical order):

- Nathan Allen of Redding, Calif., for design entry ‘Stator Scooter’

- M.Y. Alief Samboro and Agri Bisono of Malang, Indonesia, for design entry ‘LOGon’

- Sergio Botero of Medellin, Colombia, for design entry ‘Capicua’

- Nicholas Lee Dunderdale of the United Kingdom, for design entry ‘Panda’

- Ryan Ebbers of Newmarket, Ontario, for design entry ‘DMine’

- Mike Lai, Joe Wu and Johnny Li of Taipei, Taiwan, for design entry ‘M-Clinic’

- Hung-Ju Lee of Taiwan, for design entry ‘Loxodon’

- Conner Macfarlane and Collin Lafayette of Ore., and Danville, Calif., (respectively) for design entry ‘URRU’

- Armando Mercado of Mexico City, Mexico, for design entry ‘Tire Assembly is Required’

- Marin Myftiu, Hussain Almossawi and Huracan Motors of Tirana, Albania; Manama, Bahrain; and Venice, Italy (respectively), for design entry ‘Huracan City Rover’

- Arkadiusz Stoklosa, Michal Maciukiewicz and Thomasz Kwolek of Tarnobrzeg, Krakow and Mielec, Poland (respectively), for design entry ‘Volkswagen Monsoon’