Plus+ Screwdriver by Industrial Design College in LAFA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Silver A' Design Award in Hardware, Power and Hand Tools Design Competition Category.
SilverHardware· 2018
Plus+ Screwdriver
by Industrial Design College in LAFA
Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Hardware Category
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About Plus+ Screwdriver
Plus+ is a modular screwdriver designed for compact storage and quick tool selection. Each section carries a different tool bit. Sections can be added or removed to change the total length, so Plus+ adapts to different working spaces and stays easy to carry. The tool holder lets bits be inserted and removed quickly, and the grip is comfortable to hold. A clear symbol on each bit makes the correct head simple to recognize. The body is shaped by rubber injection molding. The modular units reduce storage space and resource waste.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Plus+ Screwdriver is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Plus+ Screwdriver is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Plus+ Screwdriver is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Our design has sections which are equipped by various tool bits. Plus and minus combinations can change its total length, which makes it adapt to various spaces and easy to carry. The tool holder of it is easy to insert and unplug and its grip feeling is excellent. And a striking symbol on its tool bit makes customers’ choice and intuitive.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 30mm x Depth 30mm x Height 60mm for one screwdriver
- Tags
- Modularization, Sustainable, Redesign, Recognizable
- Production Technology
- Our design is shaped by rubber injection molding technology.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge of our design is that we cannot find a reasonable way in it’s appearance which is satisfying in function at the beginning. After a certain number of sketching and discussing of our project, we finally find the proper selection which achieves the desired effect.
- Research
- How to make your tools in a reasonable order when you put them in the storage box is always trouble us. We always want to find the right screwdriver immediately when you do something. The traditional one is using a lot of space in storage and cannot recognized easily. To solve this problem, the design team finding a smart way in screwdriver redesign, which make the screwdriver easily in using and storaging.
- Inspiration
- As we all know, every time we try to use the screwdriver it will spend us some time in finding the right one. And all different kinds of screwdriver need a lot of space in receiving. To solve this problem, our design team offered a better solution in screwdriver design, which can make the screwdriver fits more requirement and use less space.
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2015 in LAFA Communal Facility Design Studio and finished in August 2017 in National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA.
- Operation Flow
- Our project is kind of model combination design, combining with many same shaped screwdrivers with different heads. Users can plus or minus any screwdriver for their needing. This design can adapt to the complex usage scenarios and perfect storage problem after using it. Through the satisfaction unit sections’ buying, gathering, assembling, using, and storing bring, customers develop the brand loyalty and tool storage habits and reduce resource waste.
- Team Members
- Designer: Xue Wenkai
Designer: Sun Jian
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