Tupperware wins design award

Tupperware Inc. has been awarded "the highest honorary distinction in the design world" -- the Red Dot: Design Team of the Year award for 2009. According to the Red Dot Insititute for Advanced Design Studies in Essen, Germany, the group considered 11,000 submissions from 61 countries for the international award. Winning products were on display at the red dot design museum in Essen in June and July. Here's what the institute had to say about Tupperware:

"For decades, undeterred by all the developments in design history, Tupperware has been developing consistently functional products with optimal practical value using simple but nevertheless ingenious, and definitely distinctive design," says Professor Dr. Peter Zec, initiator of the red dot design award and senator of the international umbrella organisation of design, Icsid, explaining the selection of the design team of the year. "With the typical Tupperware design, the company has managed to give ingenious ideas an appropriate form for many years. Tupperware's success story is an example of continuous innovative potential, which has been shaping our daily lives for generations. For this achievement we are honouring the Tupperware World Wide Design Team with the highest distinction that exists in the design world."

Tupperware's design team is headed by Susan Perkins, vice president of global design. Congratulations to Susan and her colleagues.