At NeoCon 2007, design tools enabled by Tricycle® took home Gold, Silver and Innovation awards, and were deemed so innovative that a new award category of "Design Tools" was created during the judging. Tricycle's customers who won the award were Tandus, which won Gold in the newly created Design Tools category, Karastan Contract, which won Design Tools Silver, and Lees, which won the Innovation award in the category. "Tricycle's mission has always been to erase unnecessary waste in the design process, while serving the design process itself," said company President Jonathan Bragdon. "We see sustainability and design as wholly integrated, even inseparable. As we develop tools that reduce costs, wait time and the use of natural resources, every step in the development of these tools - from concept to launch - is based upon the way that designers work. We could not be more pleased that the NeoCon judges created the new category of Design Tools, because we believe that there is much more work to be done, by manufacturers and service companies all across the industry who are rethinking what 'best practice' truly means." Read more at Interior Design's website.