Subkayak D46
Subkayak D46 Racing and Leisure Touring Kayak by Tamas Fekete is a winner of the 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design.
Subkayak D46 is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs.
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The Subkayak D46 is designed for both touring and racing, with a focus on performance and aesthetics. Its visual design features an optical separation into two distinct sections, giving it a recognizable appearance. The kayak supports various customization options through the use of 3D printed components. Elements such as rudder hatch covers and flag holders can be produced to order, allowing for adjustments in form, color, or branding. This approach enables users to personalize their kayak according to individual preferences while maintaining overall functionality and design.
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Subkayak D46 by Tamas Fekete
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Racing and Leisure Touring Kayak
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Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design Award Winner in 2025.
Golden Winner
Subkayak D46 Racing and Leisure Touring Kayak
Subkayak D46 is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Subkayak D46 is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Subkayak D46 creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Winner Designer
Tamas Fekete
Tamás Fekete is an industrial designer and co-founder of Openend Design, a Rotterdam–Budapest based studio developing functional physical products across categories such as sporting goods, tools, soft goods, lighting, and consumer accessories. His work includes the design of kayaks, travel gear, interactive objects, and utility tools. Tamás leads projects from early concept through prototyping and manufacturing, with a process that integrates material research and a focus on design semiotics—exploring how form, texture, and symbolism shape user behavior and product experience.
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Openend Design Ltd.
Openend Design specialises in innovative industrial design and product development, delivering cutting-edge solutions that blend creativity, functionality, and aesthetics. With expertise in consumer goods, soft goods, and high-quality product visualisation, the studio transforms ideas into market-ready products through a streamlined process from concept to production, including rapid prototyping and manufacturing support.
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