Ohgi Ring by Mimaya Dale is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Competition Category.
GoldJewelry· 2020
Ohgi Ring
by Mimaya Dale
Client: Mimidale Designs
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Jewelry Category
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About Ohgi Ring
Mimaya Dale, the designer of the Ohgi ring has delivered a symbolic message with this ring. Her inspiration of the ring came from positive meanings that Japanese folding fans have and how much they are loved in the Japanese culture. She uses 18K Yellow gold and a sapphire for the material and they bring out luxurious aura. Moreover, the folding fan sits on a ring in an angle which give a unique beauty. Her design is a unity between East and West.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Ohgi Ring 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. Ohgi Ring 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. Ohgi Ring creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The biggest inspiration of my design came from the divine meanings behind the Japanese folding fans. The shape of the fan opens 180 degrees and the shape is considered to bring endless luck. I believe in designing jewelry that have meanings and that is my principle. Therefore the ring is not only unique but also to bring graceful luck to people who wear it.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My concept of jewelry is East meets West. My inspiration obviously came from the traditional Japanese culture and arts, but I also am deeply focused on integrating the culture into the western style, and that was my main focus on designing this ring.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would love to start designing in other fashion fields, such as clothing, shoes, and accessories that can open up more opportunities.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is an 18 K, Yellow gold ring with a round sapphire. Ohgi (Japanese Folding Fan) symbolizes prosperity as it spreads out when we open it. The Japanese folding fan played such an important role in Japanese culture, and it was considered an essential tool to send off and welcome good spirits. This ring is different from regular jewelry because of the symbolic meanings it has, and also the unique eye-catching nature. This ring is also wearable in both directions and it gives a different unique look either way.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 26mm X Depth 23 mm X Height 22mm
- Tags
- Ohgi, Japanese Folding Fan, Ring, Sapphire, Yellow Gold, Japanese inspired, Symbolic jewelry, Jewelry with meanings
- Production Technology
- I used 3D Jewelry software to design this ring, then it was printed with a 3D printer. Then it was cast with 18K Yellow gold. The Folding Fan has a texture mat finish, the rest of the ring is mirror polished. Lastly a round sapphire was set.
- Design Challenge
- I believe jewelry should be beautiful but also comfortable to wear. I tried and failed many times to create the right measurements and angle of the Ohgi ( Japanese Folding Fan) in order to perfect the right balance. Because the ring has some weight on it, it required the right measurements for how it sits on the finger, otherwise it would not be wearable.
- Research
- I first started from understanding the meanings and history behind Japanese Folding Fans through books and the web. I also consulted with my mother who is a kimono stylist which also let me discover about my late grandmother who was a kimono fanatic. This project has opened up so many opportunities and also let me rediscover my roots and ambition. I know what I want to express through my jewelry designing and I am content to know that people appreciate my unique, meaningful jewelry.
- Inspiration
- I have always been a Japanese folding Fan fanatic and always will be. The beautiful shape of the Japanese Folding Fan, the graceful meanings behind it and its practical use, are my inspirations to design this jewelry.
- Project Duration
- The project started in June 2019 in Vancouver and finished in December 2019 in Vancouver.
- Operation Flow
- This ring is wearable in two directions and it gives a distinct beauty in either way. It creates its own attraction, is different from ordinary rings because it tells a meaningful story.
- Team Members
- Designer-Mimaya Dale
Photographer-Trace Moromisato
Model-Sara Borowski
Kimono Stylist- Kyoko Kamei
Make up Artist-Aoi Tsujiguchi - Image Credits
- Main Image: Mimaya Dale( Designer/ Founder)/Tracy Moromisato( Photographer )Sara Borowski( Model)
Imgae #1,3,4: Mimaya Dale (Designer, Founder)Tracy Moromisato(Photographer) Sara Borowski(Model), Aoi Tsujiguchi ( Make up artist) Kyoko Kamei( Kimono Stylist)
Image #2: Mimaya Dale( Designer, Photographer, and Founder)
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