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Bellda Lampshade by Mehdi Atashfaraz Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Mehdi Atashfaraz honored for lighting products and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Bellda Lampshade by Mehdi Atashfaraz, designed for Lootra, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
More About Bellda Lampshade
An easy to install, hanging lampshade that simply fits on any light bulb without a need to any tool or electrical expertise. The design of the products enables the user to simply put it on and take it off the bulb without much effort to create a visually pleasant lighting source in a budget or temporary accommodation. Since the functionality of this product is embedder in its form, the production cost is similar to the one for an ordinary plastic flowerpot. Possibility of personalization to the user’s taste take by painting or adding any decorative elements creates a unique character.
About Mehdi Atashfaraz
Being simple and inspired from past, cultural and folkloric stories constitute the values for this brand. The designed products respectable entities that enter our lives, live with us and once we are gone, tell other what they witnessed. Each local product registers the story or a piece of local culture in a greater social memory, way beyond the region that it is known. In addition, it creates the production and distribution network that helps the local economy too. In a nutshell, “a dignified look to the product” during the design is the main approach since each object is a diarium that records the stories of people and how they lived to pass it on to others.
Award Record
This recognition makes Mehdi Atashfaraz a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
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/123177
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/123177
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!123177
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/226563
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Bellda Lampshade
- Function
- Lampshade
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Gainsboro, Dim Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lootra
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mehdi Atashfaraz
- Country
- Iran
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #123177
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Easy to install hanging lampshade" A hanging lampshade that can easily fit on any light bulb without a need to any tool or electrical expertise
- Inspiration
- Light brings awareness like a bell sound. The sound waves generated by a bell increase the awareness in a human brain so does the light waves. The shape of this product has been inspired from bowl of a bell and the light bulb completes the picture of a bell-clapper.
- Research
- In most of budget or temporary housings, the lightbulbs are just hanging from the ceiling and it may be judged costly to replace them with a more sophisticated lighting. In addition, dismantling such lighting could be risky and expensive. This lampshade can be installed easily and instantly changes the appearance of simple lightbulb to something more pleasant.
- Challenge
- Challenges: Low cost and durable
- Realization and Technology
- Material: Polypropylene (PP) Manufacturing method: Plastic Injection Molding Number of pieces: one
- Operation and Interaction
- Put it on and remove on any hanging lightbulb simply as you do with a hat. A budget yet light and resistant lampshade that can be personalized to your own taste.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2020 in Gorgan and finished in September 2020 in gorgan.
- Specifications
- Width 250mm x Depth 250mm x Height 300mm *Diameter of side hole: 75mm
- Keywords
- Lampshade, Easy-to-use, Low-cost, Personalization