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Bronze A' Design Award in Building Materials and Construction Components Design Goes to Puzzle Polyurethane Wall Tile by Kamelia Terzieva
Kamelia Terzieva recognized for building materials and construction components design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Building Materials and Construction Components Design category for Puzzle Polyurethane Wall Tile by Kamelia Terzieva, designed for NOËL & MARQUET by NMC. The recognition forms part of 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Puzzle Polyurethane Wall Tile
The Puzzle tile has a pure and stylized form and a contemporary look. Thanks to its features of 3D design the tile can be placed in 4 ways, which provides a spectrum of possibilities. It can be freely combined to create a variety of abstract, geometric patterns playing with the changing light. The tiles can be installed as an accent in the space or cover the entire wall surface. Painting of some tiles in different colors can diversify the compositions. The Puzzle tiles are suitable for a range of interiors – utility, office or home spaces.
About Kamelia Terzieva
Kamelia Terzieva is a Bulgarian spatial designer with background in civil engineering, interior and exhibition design, who is recently focusing on product design. Her main focus of interest is on elegance and pure forms that offer multiple possibilities to the user. She is working on a series of wall design elements embodying her design principles and creative beliefs; two of those designs were awarded with A'Design Awards, in 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 respectively. Next to product design Terzieva is working on various interior and graphic design projects. In 2023 and 2024 she served as a Grand Award Jury Member for A'Design Awards & Competition.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kamelia Terzieva is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Building Materials and Construction Components Design Award
The A' Building Components Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good building components by best brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to building material manufacturers, building material brands, construction product designers and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include bricks, beams, windows, doors, insulation materials and roofing materials. The awarded building components designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/building-components
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/121412
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/121412
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!121412
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/297348
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://noel-marquet.net/products/arstyl-puzzle/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Puzzle Polyurethane Wall Tile
- Function
- Polyurethane Wall Tile
- Category
- Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Dark Olive Green and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- NOËL & MARQUET by NMC
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kamelia Terzieva
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #121412
Credits
- Image Credits
- Image #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Noël & Marquet / NMC-Belgium
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The tile is designed with a pure, contemporary, creative, and elegant form in mind. Thanks to its specific 3D design, the tile gives possibility to create almost unlimited compositions on the wall. Elements can be freely combined, creating abstract, geometric forms in addition to using different colors and can be applied in both utility and home interiors. 25 possible assemble schemes based on 8x8 Puzzle wall tiles are readily available for end-client inspiration.
- Inspiration
- Puzzle was inspired by the pure geometric forms of truncated pyramid for its shape and by probability theory for the almost countless compositions possible.
- Research
- In the process of research several parameters were adjusted concerning the sizes of the tile in order to find the suitable dimensions, which will best fit walls in different spaces and interiors. The thickness of the tile - height of the relief, was adjusted as well to find out the appropriate one for the visual conception. Project was developed by 3D modeling and experimental gypsum models.
- Challenge
- The creative challenge and fascination during the design development process was to create one single element which can provide many options of usage. As contemporary design loves 3D elements, another important point for the final product was to avoid any similarity to existing ones.
- Realization and Technology
- Puzzle is manufactured as Puzzle Arstyl (R) under the brand NOËL and MARQUET by the company NMC, based in Belgium. The product is made from Polyurethane foam , which is covered by final primer to make the models ready to be painted in whatever color the user prefers, before installation. The finished product is impact-resistant, durable, lightweight and easy to install.
- Operation and Interaction
- Puzzle lets all designers and architects apply their creativity fully due to its versatility. The designers can make projects with different wall textures and surfaces by playing with the positions of the product and combination between several tiles. Puzzle can be used both across a complete wall, as well as to create a stand-alone panel focal point for the interior space. Puzzle can be installed very easily just by gluing to the walls with adhesives.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started as an individual project from April to the end of July 2020 in Sofia, Bulgaria and was developed for production by NMC's engineering from July 2020 to December 2020 in Raeren, Belgium.
- Specifications
- H: 38 cm, W: 38 cm, T: 3.1 cm
- Keywords
- wall tile, wall element, 3D, polyurethane, home and living, pattern design, geometric forms
