Radiant Innovation: German Design Award for OSRAM

Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany (February 10, 2025) – OSRAM is delighted to receive a special award: at the German Design Award ceremony last Friday in Frankfurt am Main, the popular OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LED W5W was honored in the "Excellent Product Design" category. 

The OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LED W5W is ams OSRAM's first street-legal replacement lamp for use in all 12V vehicle models. It offers modern and bright white light with a color temperature of up to 5700 Kelvin and a luminous flux of up to 50 lm. Additionally, the W5W LED consumes up to 80 percent less energy than conventional light sources. With this overall package, as well as its compact and simple design, it secured an award in the "Excellent Product Design" category.

“Our aim is to develop innovative lighting and automotive solutions that impress with pioneering brightness, comfort and design. The award confirms our passion and our commitment to outstanding design,” said Dr Carsten Setzer, Vice President Automotive Lighting at ams OSRAM, commenting on the W5W award.

The German Design Award is one of the most prestigious design awards worldwide and enjoys high recognition far beyond professional circles. The independent jury, consisting of representatives from industry, academia, and design, annually selects products that set international standards for innovative design developments.


¹Approved LED vehicle light. Applies only to the respective countries with approval or for which an equivalent approval applies, as well as the vehicle models and light functions currently listed in the compatibility list. For more details, please visit http://www.osram.com/nb-led.
 


 

About ams OSRAM

The ams OSRAM Group (SIX: AMS) is a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters. By adding intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives.

With over 110 years of combined history, our core is defined by imagination, deep engineering expertise and the ability to provide global industrial capacity in sensor and light technologies. We create exciting innovations that enable our customers in the automotive, industrial, medical and consumer markets to maintain their competitive edge and drive innovation that meaningfully improves the quality of life in terms of health, safety and convenience, while reducing impact on the environment.

Our around 20,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnosis more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with a co-headquarters in Munich (Germany), the group achieved EUR 3.6 billion revenues in 2023 and is listed as ams-OSRAM AG on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ISIN: AT0000A3EPA4).

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