Apple Won Three IDEAs for Best Product Design in 2005

With three IDEAs, Apple tied for fourth in the list of corporations winning the 2005 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs). Apple received gold awards for the Mac mini in the computer equipment category and iPod Shuffle in the consumer products category and a silver award for AirPort Express in the computer equipment category. Surprisingly, HP was the top corporation winner in 2005 with 5 IDEAs. Over the past five years, Apple's 17 IDEAs ranks second only to Samsung with 19 and just ahead of IBM with 15. More... [Bill Fox]