Tomori Aid Lantern Kit by Yuji Yanagisawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
BronzeLighting· 2022
Tomori Aid Lantern Kit
Client: Yuji Yanagisawa Design Inc
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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About Tomori Aid Lantern Kit
Tomori Aid is a collapsible lighting kit that turns a flashlight into a soft lantern. The kit is made of cardboard and is assembled with a simple structure and simple fixing methods. Any flashlight of a suitable size can be used, so a failed flashlight can be replaced by another one. When folded, Tomori Aid fits within an A4 size and is easy to carry in a disaster prevention bag. When assembled, the lantern measures 260 mm in height and 170 mm on each side. The design is intended for use during evacuation and in daily life at home.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Tomori Aid Lantern Kit is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Tomori Aid Lantern Kit is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Tomori Aid Lantern Kit splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- It is a lighting kit that changes the light of a linear LED flashlight into the light of a soft lantern born from the designer's own evacuation experience.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- When folded:H260mm x W180mm
When assembled:H260mm x W170mm D170mm - Tags
- lantern, light, sustainable, prevention, flashlight, eco-friendly, disaster,
- Production Technology
- Tomori Aid is a collapsible lighting kit made of cardboard. Easy to assemble with simple structures and fixing methods, any flashlight of the right size can be turned into a lantern. It is designed to fit in A4 size when folded and is easy to carry. If one flashlight fails, you can substitute another flashlight, so you don't have to worry about lighting when you need it.
- Design Challenge
- It has both "portability that can be carried in a disaster prevention bag when evacuating" and "design that makes you want to decorate", and it is designed that it can be used as both a daily light and a light when a natural disaster strikes.
- Research
- During a power outage cause of a typhoon in Japan, the method of putting a PET bottle filled with water was spreading in news and SNS. So I realized that there was an urgent need to have an indirect light like a lantern, even though they had a flashlight, at the actual site, and started development to improve it.
- Inspiration
- When evacuating to a shelter due to typhoon damage in Japan, I've experienced the difference between imagination and reality. So I've developed Tomori Aid to solve problems by design when a natural disaster strikes.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2019 in Tokyo and finished in February 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Based on the designer's own evacuation experience, in order to solve the problems of power outages and lights at evacuation shelters, it has ben achieved both portability that is useful during evacuation and design that can be used in daily life.
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