Press Release
Joyful Color Reusable Colored Pens by Lu Yi and Yuxuan Miao Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Lu Yi and Yuxuan Miao for baby, kids' and children's products design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Joyful Color Reusable Colored Pens by Lu Yi and Yuxuan Miao, designed for Syid, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Joyful Color Reusable Colored Pens
Joyful Color is a set of reusable colored pens designed for children. Each pen is made from recycled plastic, and the pen shell gains a second purpose after drawing. The pen body can be taken apart with a simple tool, so one pen becomes several small columnar parts. The parts can then be freely assembled through an interlocking structure. Children can move from two-dimensional drawing to three-dimensional building. Each pen measures 110 by 21 by 21 millimeters. The aim is to reduce plastic waste and to support manual skill and spatial imagination.
Award Record
With this recognition, Lu Yi and Yuxuan Miao is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. Awarded baby products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/baby-products
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/117616
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/117616
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!117616
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/182449
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Joyful Color Reusable Colored Pens
- Function
- Reusable Colored Pens
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Silver, Light Gray, Dark Gray, White Smoke and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Syid
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Lu Yi and Yuxuan Miao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #117616
Credits
- Team
- Lu Yi, Yuxuan Miao, Guanlan Guo, Siyu Ma, Sibo Chen, Jingyi Lu, Yichen Xu and Kang Wei
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The original intention of the design is to explore the sustainable use of recycled plastic pen shell as the material for children's toys. This children's colored pen shell can be reused. This design can let children create again after painting, let children from drawing two-dimensional works further into three-dimensional works, can exercise children's hands-on ability, and improve their spatial imagination.
- Inspiration
- In view of the pollution of plastic, we hope the product can have the function of secondary utilization, so we design this work combined with the structure of the pen body
- Research
- Drawing and playing are children's nature, this work is inspired by children's two-dimensional and three-dimensional work together for design, using waste recycling, the core is to promote children's intellectual development, while painting and creation can bring more joy to children!
- Realization and Technology
- Through the secondary use of the plastic color pen shell, the function is transformed. By carrying tools, the pen can be simply disassembled, and then the interspersed structure before and after the disassembled parts can be freely assembled.
- Operation and Interaction
- When using the brush, use the cap as normal, just like any other colored pen. After using the pen can be disassembled pen body, a pen will become a few columnar toy parts. Then you can freely create with the parts.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design project started in Shenyang in September 2020, completed in January 2021, and exhibited in the Art Museum of China syid Design Institute in January 2021.
- Keywords
- Children's free assembly toys puzzle recycling plastic painting creative fun interaction
