iF Design Awards for Kia XCeed and ‘Imagine by Kia’ concept

New Kia XCeed urban crossover secures ‘Product’ design accolade while Concept recognized in the ‘Professional Concept’ category

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Kia XCeedThe Kia XCeed urban crossover and the ‘Imagine by Kia’ concept have been awarded with prestigious 2020 iF Design Awards.

This double achievement once again illustrates the Korean manufacturer’s unrivalled strength in automotive design. Kia won its first iF Award in 2010, and has created at least one prize-winning vehicle design every single year since. A brace of prizes in 2020 brings Kia’s total number of iF Design Awards to 20.

Karim Habib, Head of Kia Design Center, said, “Kia has strived for continuous quality improvements and more fascinating and interesting customer experiences. “The XCeed crossover and ‘Imagine by Kia’ represent this new vision”

 In 2020, companies from 56 countries around the world participated in Awards, making a combined total of 7,298 product submissions – each judged by an international jury of 78 design experts.

Kia XCeedThe iF Design Award covers seven categories: Product, Communication, Packaging, Architecture, Interior Architecture, Service Design, and Professional Concept. Winners will be formally recognized at the ‘iF Design Exhibition’ at the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, UNESCO City of Design on May 4, 2020. From May 2-10, award-winning entrants to the awards will also be exhibited at Berlin’s Cafe Moskau.

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Jaishankar Jayaramiah is a well-known India-based award-winning international Journalist and columnist, who is familiar for his multi-subject expertise, especially in business Journalism. Many of his write-ups remained as game changers in the Indian trade industry while also guiding the government to chalk out its policies. An Engineer-turned Journalist Jayaramiah has worked for Autocar Professional, The Financial Express, The New Indian Express and Automotive World among others before launching Automotive India News and Automotive Lead news magazines. He has extensively traveled across the country, writing on multiple subjects and also visited countries like Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hongkong, Sri Lanka, Maldives etc. Don’t wonder if you find a story on coffee or agriculture or even on politics when you Google his details as he has written on almost all subjects during his two decades of journey so far in Journalism. While keeping automotive as main beat all along his career, he has also covered all other verticals under Old & New Economy. For the past few years, he has been focusing only on B2B Automotive niche. Personally he likes to write more on the government policies; international trends related to automotive industry and new auto technologies.