Beautiful Darkness Eyewear by Sanaz Ghafari is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Eyewear Design Competition Category.
IronEyewear· 2023
Beautiful Darkness Eyewear
Client: Sanaz Ghafari
A' Design Award Winner in Eyewear Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #151126The Design
About Beautiful Darkness Eyewear
These eyewear are inspired by Iranian motifs and the purpose of its design is a gift for those who look at the world with only one eye. Many of them have lost it during their lives in line with their dreams, ideologies, freedom of humanity, standing against oppression, etc., and these beautiful patterns putted on them so that they know their true beauty. In fact, the main inspiration were these people. In terms of production technology, this work has a simple structure that can be made easily only with modern technology, and golden metal and brown glass are used in it.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Beautiful Darkness Eyewear is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Beautiful Darkness Eyewear is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Beautiful Darkness Eyewear is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative fusion of Iranian motifs with eyewear design in Beautiful Darkness Eyewear speaks to profound social consciousness - could you elaborate on how this cultural integration honors those who see the world through one eye?
The fusion of authentic Iranian motifs in the "Beautiful Darkness" design is an artistic attempt to redefine the concept of beauty for those who view the world through a different lens. These motifs, symbolizing the richness and authenticity of our culture, are used here not to conceal, but to adorn and honor. This design serves as a reminder to individuals who have faced significant life challenges that their unique perspective on existence is valuable. We wanted to use the language of art to show that true beauty lies in inner strength and embracing differences; these patterns are a delicate reflection of that very beauty, now shining upon their visage.
The intricate metalwork patterns in Beautiful Darkness Eyewear appear to transform a medical necessity into an artistic statement - what inspired you to choose these specific traditional Iranian motifs and how do they amplify your message about perception and beauty?
The choice of these specific Iranian motifs aimed to create a bridge between our rich artistic tradition and modern design. These intricate and delicate interlaced patterns, often seen in our ancient architecture and handicrafts, symbolize perfection, balance, and timeless beauty. By applying these motifs to a part of the eyewear typically used for covering, we challenge the traditional concept of "hiding a flaw." These delicate metalworks attract the viewer's gaze rather than deflecting it, conveying a clear message: even in darkness or absence, stunning beauty can be found. These patterns shift the viewer's perception, evoking admiration for a work of art rather than a sense of pity.
As the recipient of an A' Design Award for Beautiful Darkness Eyewear, how do you envision this recognition helping to advance your mission of celebrating and empowering individuals who have sacrificed an eye in pursuit of their ideals?
Receiving the A' Design Award is a valuable international validation that gives global reach to our message. This recognition helps us demonstrate that design can operate beyond mere aesthetics and serve as a powerful tool for human empowerment. This award supports our mission to more effectively promote the idea that an assistive device can be a piece of high art. When such a design is acclaimed globally, it instills a greater sense of pride and confidence in those who wear it, showing society that their resilience and unique beauty should be viewed with admiration rather than pity.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This work is not just an ordinary pair of glasses to hide an apparently blind eye, this work is beautiful and different because it tries to show that maybe one eye or even without the eyes of the head and only with the eyes of the heart can see the world much more clearly and realistically and beautifully, so the frame of these glasses should also show the beauty of this eye and the goals and insights behind it. Also, in this work, golden-colored metal such as brass and smoked glass is used.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Metal motifs are placed on one of the glasses of the smokey eyeglass frame to be placed on the eye that does not have the ability to see. The diameter of the glasses frame is 50 mm and the length of the handles is 135 mm
- Tags
- Jewelry, Accessory, Eyewear, Sunglasses, Glasses, Iranian Art, Traditional Arts of Iran
- Production Technology
- To design this product, I have used the motifs that I had designed in the undergraduate course at the Isfahan University of Art, inspired by traditional Iranian motifs. I was inspired by these Iranian motifs and changed them again for the design of the sunglasses. This work was done after many corrections and changes, first by hand design and then by software. The manufacturing method of this product is simple, it can be manufactured with modern technology and simple devices.
- Design Challenge
- According to the academic training in jewelry and accessory design as well as traditional Iranian design, although there was no special challenge in terms of design, in my opinion, it is the main challenge of the world. No matter how much I try to beautify these noble people, it will still not be as beautiful as their ideals and outlook on life and the world, and my main challenge is to leave the world of oppressors behind.
- Research
- Applied research and research methods on patterns and standards of eyeglass design and Iranian art in the form of it has been a library. Also, research among the literature to understand and touch the world of the one-eyed blind, and along with that,interviews with the mentioned people. And finally, seeing people every day who, in the direction of their ideals in the society where I live, lose not only an eye, but many more valuable things, and there is no research like living in these streets.
- Inspiration
- This work is visually inspired by traditional Iranian art.But it can be said that the main inspiration of this work is the people who, in the way of freedom, look at the world with only one eye - but perhaps much more sighted and deeper than thousands of seeing eyes.There are not few people who sacrifice valuable things against dictatorships every day in the way of their ideals.This work is dedicated to those who may see the world much more beautiful and wider than us, who see with two eyes.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2023 in Isfahan and finished in March 2023 in Isfahan. This project is one of the collection which designed sunglasses based on humanitarian ideologies, love for life and seeing the world and traditional arts of Iran.
- Operation Flow
- This work can not only affect the audience from an aesthetic point of view, but because it inspired the traditional artworks of old Iran, it can be a reminder of the countless values of art and works of art in life. But the main impact and interaction of this work is in respect for people who, either for the love of life, are satisfied with one eye to see the beauty of the world, or those who have passed it in line with their lofty goals, but still and only with This, look at the world and life with a much more perceptive eye than most of us. All the beauty of this work is dedicated to them.
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