The Board Skateboard by Chia-Wei Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design Competition Category.
GoldVehicle· 2021
The Board Skateboard
Client: Barry Chen
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Vehicle Category
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About The Board Skateboard
The Board is a folding skateboard designed for easy transport and storage. The deck is made from 57 interlocking pivot hinges. By folding the hinges in one direction or the other, the classic cruiser shape is transformed into a perfect circle. In the circular form, The Board fits into a backpack and can be kept in narrow spaces or displayed as a decorative object at home. Aluminum, iron and plastic are used in the construction. The transformation process gives the design a clear visual appeal.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Board Skateboard 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. The Board Skateboard is expected to be a highly 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. The Board Skateboard creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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We specialize in designing innovative products that transform to meet real user needs. Our award-winning approach combines engineering excellence with creative problem-solving to develop mobility and lifestyle products that adapt to modern living spaces and usage patterns.
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- Unique Properties
- The skateboard is limited by its appearance and it is inconvenient for users to carry.
The Board has a strong visual appeal of its transforming process. The structure makes it a completed circle which can be put in a backpack easily. Because of the circular appearance, it can be part of decorations at home or even place in the narrow space. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Perfect circle / H:118 W: 305 L:335
cruiser shape /H:118 W: 152 L:626 - Tags
- The Board, Circle, Skateboard, Folding, Transform
- Production Technology
- Aluminum,Iron,Plastic
- Design Challenge
- Biggest challenges was manufacturing its complex dynamic structure and is considering open-sourcing the design as a DIY kit for 3D printers.
- Research
- Transformation is not just the change in appearance, but also the consideration of factors such as space, time, and circumstance to strengthen the purpose of transformation and the psychological level. In today’s product design, in order to make transformable products satisfy the users’ need, the designers usually introduce the transformable features to make them easy to carry and multifunctional simultaneously.
- Inspiration
- Most of the users have the stereotype in the usage of the products. If we get rid of the general form changing, there will be a different scenario for the users. The form changing process gives the users visual feeling and the intensity of it will be different depend on the various structures.
- Project Duration
- The design start in 2018 finish in 2019 July.
- Operation Flow
- The skateboard is made from 57 interlocking pivot hinges, by folding the hinges one direction or the other, transforming the classic cruiser shape into a perfect circle. Easy to fit in smaller places and even used for decoration.
- Team Members
- CHEN, CHIA-WEI
- Image Credits
- Main image:CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019
Optional Image#1:CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019
Optional Image#2:CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019
Optional Image#3:CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019
Optional Image#4:CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019
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