A design for a transparent OLED television that doubles as a shelf by Richard Bone and Jisu Yun has been named the best design in LG Display and Dezeen's contest to create innovative designs that showcase OLED technology.
Bone and Yun beat four other finalists to claim the top prize of ?15,000 in Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition with their design called Scroll.
Scroll by Richard Bone and Jisu Yun won first place in LG Display and Dezeen's OLEDs Go! competition
The competition brief asked entrants to create designs that showcase some of OLED technology's key qualities, such as its lightness and thinness, as well as the possibility for OLED displays to be bendable or transparent.
Second place was awarded to Canadian designer Jean-Michel Rochette for Signal, a design for a bendable OLED television that opens and closes like a book. Signal by Jean-Michel Rochette was awarded second place in the competition
The remaining three designs shortlisted for the competition shared third place, including a television that unfurls like a flag by Doyeon Shin, a wood shelf with an embedded display by Gianfranco Vasselli and Yunchik Lee and Bomi Kim's design for an OLED display-equipped trolley that can be easily moved from room to room.
Scroll was the "most practical and innovative" entry
Bone and Yun?s Scroll is a multipurpose design that can be used as a digital display when it's turned on and a physical display shelf when turned off.
The slender form of the device...