Awards

At the end of our anniversary year of 2022, in which we celebrated our three decades of existence, the Chicago Museum of Design and Architecture once again honored us with a Good Design Award.

This time among the winners of this prestigious award was our intelligent and all-inclusive VISION system designed especially for tunnel lighting.

At the very end of this unusual 2020, we have received the notification that BUCK’s system for architectural lighting SYSTEM S is this year’s winner of Good Design award, acknowledgement by Chicago Atheneaum museum of design and architecture. This is the lucky 13th Good Design award for BUCK’s applied design that has marked the year behind us. The information about the system will be published in online exhibition adn yearbook for 2020.

Industrial luminaire REGINA was given Good Design Award. This innovative luminaire combines BUCK’s experience in industrial and street lighting, by enabling highly efficient lighting in production facilities and high bay warehouses.

During the visit to USA, in May 2017, Darko Budeč met with representatives of Serbian diaspora on East Coast. On the occasion, Mr Nikola Lonchar, president of Tesla Science Foundation, honored Mr. Budec with Nikola Tesla medal.

Street lighting family MISTRAL was acknowledged with Good design award. The open design concept was recognized as unique and innovative, as was its modularity (the power increases by simply adding new LED modules) and serviceability.

QUARTZ, luminaire for hospital lighting, is another one in row of BUCK’s winners of Good Design Award 2016. The luminaire enables easy work of medical staff and quick recovery of patients with design, glare limitation and possibility of temperature color management and dynamic white.

The acknowledgement of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Artists of Serbia) is awarded each year for exceptional design of Serbian artists. Architect Bogdan Slavica was acknowledged for the project of stand which presented BUCK during Light+ Building 2014-2016. The award is named after Aleksandar Šaletić, architect in charge for the interior design of a famous congress facility Centar Sava in Belgrade, Serbia.

BUCK is winner of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization form Geneva, Switzerland) IP Enterprise Trophy for contribution in industrial design, with over 20 registered and commercialized designs. The acknowledgement was handed during the celebration of 95-year jubilee of Intellectual Property Agency of Serbia.

BUCK’s holistic approach to design was awarded in the category Graphic design, for the calendar for 2015, author Rastko Ciric. This calendar was inspired by hand shadow puppets, which, together with a short informative text, originally represents important personalities in lighting science.

SIMPLE is the winner of Good design award 2014, by Chicago Museum of Architecture and Design.
The author of this luminaire with two faces and two light effects is BUCK’s longtime associate, architect Bogdan Slavica. SIMPLE is exhibited in the on-line exposition on the following address https://chi-athenaeum.org/lighting-2014/ and in the Good design award yearbook.

Every year, International Forum Design (IF) awards excellent design in different categories. The design of Vesna Pejovic from Kako.Ko design studio has this time been awarded for a simple and effective design of luminaire E in the category Lighting. IF award was founded in Germany 60 years ago and has the reputation as one of the most important world design competitions, gathering the most important brands and designers from all over the world.

TANGRAM is this year’s winner of Good design award 2013, given by Chicago Museum of Architecture and design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhC5OZmKsM

BUCK’s innovative product AIRO is winner of the award for best designer solution for 2011/12. The award is given by Belgrade Chamber of Commerce, while the authors of design are Miroslav Zivanović, chief of BUCK’s R&D and designer Dušan Nešić.

ANCORA, MINI VELA 1 SYSTEM and LUCIA are winners of the Good design award 2011, awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. The authors of the design are Mr Rade Nikolić (ANCORA), prof. Dušan Vuksan (MINI VELA 1 SYSTEM) and prof. Dušan Nešić (LUCIA). Good design is an international award founded in 1950. Every year they receive several thousand applications from all over the world, from small and anonymous companies and from the biggest international brands.

BUCK’s booth at Light+ Building fair i2010 in Frankfurt was given IF communication design award for corporate architecture and expositions. The author of concept of the booth is the design studio Kako.Ko with Vesna Pejović, while technical development was done by manager of BUCK’s R&D Miroslav Živanović. The coordinator of the whole project was Gordana Graovčević, head of design department of BUCK. The booth was completely produced in BUCK’s plant in Belgrade. IF design award is a prestigious award revealing and awarding best world design for over 50 years.

Red dot product design award, one of the world’s most prestigious design awards, has been given to MEDICO system of BUCK’s production. The author of the awarded system for illumination and medical gasses distribution is professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts Dušan Nešić. BUCK is the first Serbian company to have this considerable award.

In 2008 the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce gave the award for the best designer solution in 2007 for the luminaire VELA of BUCK’s production. The author of the awarded product is professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts Dušan Vuksan.

Pro Buisness Leader is the award we have obtained in March 2007, as the most successful medium enterprise. The prize is traditionally awarded by the expert jury of ProCredit Bank to the SME’s for good performances, with the aim of promoting positive examples of entrepreneurship.