Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design Goes to Exosuit Storage Shelves Wall Hanging System by Cube X Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Cube X Design for furniture accessories, hardware and materials design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Exosuit Storage Shelves Wall Hanging System by Cube X Design, designed for CUBEX Industrial Design Consulting, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design category. The recognition forms part of 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.
Regarding Exosuit Storage Shelves Wall Hanging System
Exosuit Storage Shelves is a wall hanging storage system designed for use in several living spaces. Ultra-thin aluminium replaces the wood structure commonly used on walls, giving a modern appearance. Each shelf board has a thin front edge and a trapezoidal hollow section at the base next to the wall, which lowers the weight and raises the load bearing capacity. An ultra-thin LED lamp strip adds controllable light. Standard sizes and a range of colours suit the living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Assembly on the wall is simple.
Award Record
With this recognition, Cube X Design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design Award
The A' Furniture Accessory Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good furniture accessories by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture accessory designers, hardware designers, material designers and industrial design studios from all countries. Entries typically include knobs, handles, hinges, casters, sliders and brackets. Awarded furniture accessory designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture-accessory
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/121578
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/121578
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!121578
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/302751
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.sohu.com/a/437449888_120860591
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Exosuit Storage Shelves Wall Hanging System
- Function
- Wall Hanging System
- Category
- Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Rosy Brown, Gray, Dark Gray, Silver and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- CUBEX Industrial Design Consulting
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Cube X Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #121578
Credits
- Team
- Dongjie Cao
- Image Credits
- CUBE X Design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The designer Dongjie Cao hopes to design a wall hanging storage system that can be used in multiple living spaces. It’s different from the wood structure commonly used on the wall and instead of ultra-thin aluminum material, which conforms to the modern and stylish aesthetic standards. Standardized product specifications are suitable for storage requirements in different scenes of daily life.
- Inspiration
- It’s different from the wood structure commonly used on the wall and instead of ultra-thin aluminum material, which conforms to the modern and stylish aesthetic standards. The clapboard can be used for wall hanging storage in different scenes of living spaces in different colors.
- Research
- The designer Dongjie Cao hopes to design a wall hanging storage system that can be used in multiple living spaces, instead of the commonly wood structure. Looking for lots of materials in Chinese suppliers and finally found ultra-thin aluminum, which looks more modern and stylish. It uses the environmentally fuel injection process which is truly environmentally friendly and forbidden the peculiar smell.
- Challenge
- How to ensure the ultra-thin and simple design as well as minimize the weight of the aluminum clapboard and increase the load-bearing capacity is the biggest challenge in the entire design. After repeated design and testing, the main structure of the long clapboard with a wider surface use the thin front and trapezoidal hollow design in the bottom, which basically realized the original design intention.
- Realization and Technology
- Ultra-thin aluminum material is used as the clapboard of the shelf, and its easy to assemble on the wall with multiple size options. The clapboard can be used for wall hanging storage in different scenes of living spaces in different colors. For the living room and bedroom, you can choose extra leather put on the shelf to design the classic Italian style, while in the kitchen and bathroom you can choose the narrow side corresponding with some hollow groove design to put kitchen ware to create a German minimalist functionalism style.
- Operation and Interaction
- The main structure of the clapboard use a thin front and trapezoidal hollow design in the bottom closed to the wall, which reduces the weight of aluminum but improve the bearing capacity. Its equipped a new type of ultra-thin LED energy-saving lamp belt, which brings a more user-friendly controllable light design. The choice of diverse colors can fulfill the demands of different families.
- Project Duration and Location
- Started in September 2020, finished in December 2020, exhibited in Design Guangzhou 2020 in December 2020.
- Specifications
- Length:2400mm Width:300mm Heigth:55mm
- Keywords
- ultra-thin, hanging storage clapboard, aluminum clapboard, trapezoidal hollow design
