Free and Easy Staffelei by Industrial Design College in LAFA

Free and Easy Staffelei by Industrial Design College in LAFA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Eisen in Kunstbedarfdesign Competition Category.

EisenKunstbedarf· 2020

Free and Easy Staffelei

by Industrial Design College in LAFA

Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Kunstbedarf Category

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The Design

About Free and Easy Staffelei

Free and Easy ist eine Staffelei, die für kleine Ateliers, Kunsträume und das Zeichnen im Freien konzipiert wurde. Übliche dreibeinige Staffeleien nehmen bei Lagerung und Transport viel Platz ein und versperren die Sicht zwischen Künstlern und Lehrenden. Free and Easy hat im zusammengeklappten Zustand eine flache, kompakte Form, die Platz spart und die Transportkosten senkt. Der Rahmen besteht aus Holz und technischem Nylon-Kunststoff, ergänzt durch Metallverschlüsse und Magnete. Zwei Kunststoffräder regulieren die Höhe des Zeichenbretts. Ein kombinierter Kastendeckel mit Palette hält die Malwerkzeuge stets griffbereit.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Eisen

Free and Easy Staffelei ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Free and Easy Staffelei wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Free and Easy Staffelei wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Free and Easy is a new type of easel design, presenting more possibilities, so as to meet the needs of consumers in a variety of use scenarios, such as small studio of SOHO crowd, outdoor sketch, classroom application of art class, etc. It is easy to pull and carry, fitting for the car trunk, also convenient for outdoor sketching and stable when being used. It is convenience for assembly and transportation, flat and neat shape in storage, space saving and greatly reducing transportation cost.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 560mm x Depth 100mm x Height 1300mm
Tags: Redesign, Easel, Usability, Portability, Light
Production Technology: The frame of the easel is made of two materials, one is made of wood, the other is made of nylon engineering plastic. It also has metal fasteners and magnets as accessories.
Design Challenge: In the process of lightweight easel design, based on ergonomics and guided by the design concept of product design, the designer combines the manufacturer's production demand with the user's use demand to conduct a comprehensive analysis and research on the structure, function, material, user interaction and other aspects of the easel. 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: As an important part of painting tools, easel is an indispensable tool for every painting enthusiast and professional workers. By observing the market of painting supplies, you can easily find that the renewal and iteration of painting related products are very slow, many painting products lack of revolutionary ideas and product upgrading. Based on the market research and field visit of easel, designers puts forward a solutions, that is Free and Easy , to the existing problems of easel products from the perspective of productization.
Inspiration: At present, similar easels waste a lot of space for gathering and storage, inconvenient transportation and cost increase, especially for schools and arts studios. Also, during using time, the existing triangle easels block space, is really affects the sight artists and tutorship of teachers. Free and Easy is a solution for these problems and also can be used in outdoor sketching. It is really easy for users to curry with and also has reasonable space for color palette and painting tools.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2019 in LAFA Communal Facility Design Studio and finished in January 2020 in National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA.
Operation Flow: When users want to raise the height of their drawing board, they only need to adjust the left and right plastic wheels used to control the bracket. Picture box cover plate and color palette combined in one of the design not only save space but also makes users more easier in taking their placed painting material. On the support bar of the easel, the position limit Angle of the u-shaped metal clip is placed on the top of the support bar.
Team Members: Designer: Xue Wenkai
Designer: Li Tingyu
Designer: Xue Bomu
Designer: Du Heli