US-based X-Rite Incorporated, a global leader in colour science and technology, and its subsidiary Pantone LLC, have bagged the world-renowned ‘iF DESIGN AWARD’ – One of the best-known labels for design excellence – for their Total Appearance Capture (TAC™) Scanner.
A team of 58 judges, made up of independent experts from all over the world, reviewed a total of 5,500 entries and selected TAC7 version as a winner in the product discipline. ‘iF DESIGN AWARD’ night will take place on 10th March 2017 at BMW Welt in Munich, and the jury will hand over the award to X-Rite in the official ceremony.
It’s worth mentioning here the TAC7 scanner is part of a full ecosystem that addresses a key challenge in product design thus provides comprehensive solution that brings a new level of accuracy and realism to the capture, communication and digital presentation of physical materials in the virtual world.
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Expressing his delight on winning the award, Dr. Francis Lamy, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, X-Rite, commented, “We’re thrilled to win the prestigious iF Design Award. This award recognizes the dedication of the X-Rite product development team to expanding our solution portfolio beyond colour to address the more significant challenge of capturing and managing appearance.”
The TAC7 scanner has passed all the eligibility criteria formed by iF DESIGN AWARD’s jury such as, Innovation & Elaboration; Functionality; Aesthetics; Responsibility; and Positioning, to win the award for the year 2017.
The company explains that using the TAC ecosystem, product designers, 3D artists, material specifiers and marketers can scan in physical material samples and create vendor-neutral Appearance Exchange Format (AxF™) files to digitally communicate and share consistent appearance-related data with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and state-of-the art rendering applications.
