Malaysia Good Design Mark Award Evaluation

It’s been quite a long time since I been busy with my field of work. I haven’t had much time to write as I’m the project leader of the MRM Award, loads of preparation to be arranged, presentation and few other stuffs to take care of. 


Okay, maybe you're wondering what is Malaysia Good Design Mark (MGDM) Award, right? Malaysia Good Design Mark is a design recognition programme by the Malaysian Government under the Malaysia Design Council. It will be awarded to good design and quality products. This award recognises the efforts of the industry sector in the research and development of new products towards making Malaysia as one of the main contributors in technology development and global economic advancement.

So, the day arrived, and everything went well almost like what I’ve planned. Almost, but it’s better than what I expected. Alhamdulillah, praise to Allah. Among of all the panel of judges were all gentlemen, none of them are ladies, which scares me a lil’ bit since I was the only woman to present the products but that is not really my concern. What I concern the most is the questions the panel threw at me for they seemed very technical-engineering people, and they are. I thought the Q&A session last only five minutes but it prolong like more than half an hour. Luckily GM and Technical Head of Department were there to help me answer all those IDK questions.  

Later on we went to take the factory tour and straight to the selected site to truly evaluate the play structure. 

Evaluating....

My design.. Tadaaaa

Elaborating design in middle of gentlemen

The panels of the judges were happened to be my lecturers’ lecturers. At first they seem so solemn and not fun but after mingle at the site, when I had the chance to explain about my product that I designed and represent my other colleague’s product, I can say that they’re cool. They even gimme witty and cute ideas on designing new products. The bottom line is, I learnt a LOT that day. And I thank Allah zillion times that the evaluation session went amazing! Hopefully those products in the running of MGDM Award will be winning by us next year, Insya Allah.

The rest of day, let me keep it in my box of memory. *grinning big*