Press Release
Dbgripper Dumbbell Handgripper by Chungsheng Chen and Hungchi Hu Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
Chungsheng Chen and Hungchi Hu acknowledged for sporting goods, fitness and recreation equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Dbgripper Dumbbell Handgripper by Chungsheng Chen and Hungchi Hu, designed for Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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 Dbgripper Dumbbell Handgripper
Is a safe and good hold fitness tools for all ages. Soft touch coating on the surface, providing a silky feel. Made by 100 % recyclable silicone with special material formula producing 6 different levels of hardness, with different size and weight, provide optional grip force training. Hand gripper also can fit onto the rounded notch at both sides of the dumbbell bar adding weight to it for arm muscle training up to 60 types of different strength combination. The eye-catching colors from light to dark, indicates the strength and weight from light to heavy.
About Chungsheng Chen and Hungchi Hu
Prof. ChungSheng Chen, a self-proclaimed "design missionary," possesses extensive experience in both design practice and education. He frequently expresses his perspectives on society through his work, blending an optimistic outlook, keen observation, and a deep emotional connection to life. His cross-disciplinary approach integrates various processing techniques and material applications, embodying a fundamental design philosophy.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chungsheng Chen and Hungchi Hu is a winner of 12 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2020 - 2021 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design Award
The A' Sporting Goods Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sports equipment designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sporting goods designers, fitness equipment designers, recreation equipment designers and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include basketballs, tennis rackets, yoga mats, running shoes, dumbbells and bicycles. The awarded sports equipment designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/sporting-goods
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/118813
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/118813
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!118813
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/179403
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Dbgripper Dumbbell Handgripper
- Function
- Dumbbell Handgripper
- Category
- Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sports
- Colors
- White Smoke, Deep Sky Blue, Slate Gray, Gainsboro and Medium Turquoise
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chungsheng Chen and Hungchi Hu
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #118813
Credits
- Team
- ChungSheng Chen, SiYu Wu, HungChi Hu, Tainan University of Technology Product Design Dept, Acdesign Associates International Co.,Ltd. and Jin Hui Co.,Ltd.
- Image Credits
- Image credit:ChungSheng Chen, SiYu Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A set of 6 hand grippers with different weight and grip strength, combine with a dumbbell bar with rounded notch at both end, adding weight to it. Made by 100 % recyclable silicone with special material formula producing 6 different levels of hardness. They are smooth, soft appearance design with eye-catching colors from light to dark, indicates the strength and weight from light to heavy. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel, good hold and grip.
- Inspiration
- The trend of home fitness training is becoming more and more popular. Dumbbells and hand grippers are very common basic muscle training equipment at home. However, most of the products currently on the market are made of metal, looks tough but rough, and each of the dumbbell or hand gripper comes only a single weight or grip strength, this caused a single product cannot meet the needs of the whole family, especially the elderly, women and young children.
- Research
- Grip strength and weight training have a very important relationship with health or rehabilitation. Presently most of the dumbbells or grippers are emphasize on functionality and were made of metal and spring, looks tough but rough, may not suitable to all age member in the family, even may cause accidental injuries. This design it’s a weight adjustable dumbbell plus gripper, the very first fitness tool for hand and arm muscle training that integrated dumbbell and gripper in a single fitness product to be made in silicone material with different grip strength and weight.
- Challenge
- In order to achieve several grip strength and weight in one single product, the hand gripper dimension has to accommodate the majority palm size of the family members from young to elderly, children and woman, 75mm and 85mm diameter conform to the requirement. Different numbers of metal balls were placed into the grippers, adding more weight yet still can be grip and squeeze, this is the toughest part in molding. Rounded notch at both sides on the dumbbell bar, designed to perfect fit for the 2 different sizes of hand grippers, allowing all family members to adjust the weight easily.
- Realization and Technology
- Material: LGB Silicone, Metal Bar, Metal Ball. Production Tech: Silicone fully cover over metal technology. Surface Touching: Silky Soft Touch Coating, enhance the touch of the surface.
- Operation and Interaction
- Is a safe and good hold fitness tools for all ages. Soft touch coating on the surface, providing a silky feel. The different size and weight of the hand gripper provide optional grip force training, hand gripper also can fit onto the dumbbell bar for arm muscle training up to 60 types of different strength combination.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August,2019 finished in April,2020 in Tainan, ready to go test production by early 2021.
- Specifications
- Size: (Dumbbell bar) Diameter 60mm L2250mm x 1 pc (Hand gripper) Diameter 85mm(L) x 3pcs, Diameter 75mm(M) x 3 pcs Net Weight: 2kg/set Hand gripper weight: (85mm)130g, 185g, 221g. (75mm) 105g, 145g, 185g Material: Food grade silicone, metal bar, metal ball. Patent no:M602454. (2020)Taiwan. Patent holder: ChungSheng Chen.
- Keywords
- Silicone, Weight Adjustable, Dumbbell, Handgripper.
