Braun Prize Cancels 2011 Design Awards, Will Restructure and Resume in 2012

The Braun Prize, the long-running product design competition, has announced that it has decided to stop running on a biennial schedule and instead go back to every three years. Since the last was held in 2009, you won’t see another until 2012. But the Prize wing of the industrial design company has promised that they’ll put that extra year off to good use, retooling the award through an overhaul of the submissions process and “an increased emphasis on greater accessibility for design interested consumers and a renewed focus to further extend into innovative, emerging markets.”