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Forn Woei Koong Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Smell the Flower Coffee Equipment in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Forn Woei Koong honored for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category for Smell the Flower Coffee Equipment by Forn Woei Koong, designed for Forn Woei Koong Design Studio. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Smell the Flower Coffee Equipment
Smell the Flower is a set of measuring equipment for pour over coffee, consisting of a scale and a thermometer. The scale is inspired by flower arrangement. Weights shaped as leaves and fruits are placed on a branch, so weighing coffee beans resembles arranging flowers. The thermometer takes the form of a flower, and the petals rotate open as the hot water is measured, with each petal marking ten degrees. Ceramic, copper, aluminum and acrylic are used in the set. The design gives the preparation of pour over coffee a calm and ritual character.
About Forn Woei Koong
Forn Woei, Koong is an industrial designer who is good at furniture and home accessories design. He loves to observe the beauty in nature and every touching moment in daily life, as his inspiration for design works. Furthermore, Forn Woei, Koong is also keen on the sense of ritual in life. He believes that through the power of product design, the sensory stimulation of aesthetic can be increased, the sense of ritual can be sublimated, and the product using experience can be enriched.
Award Record
With this recognition, Forn Woei Koong is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Typical entries include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. The awarded art designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fine-art
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/126105
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/126105
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!126105
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/309737
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://reurl.cc/Q70oKO
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Smell the Flower Coffee Equipment
- Function
- Coffee Equipment
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Peru, Rosy Brown, Tan, Silver and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Forn Woei Koong Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Forn Woei Koong
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #126105
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Jun-You Liu, Project "Smell the Flower", 2020.; Photographer Jun-You Liu, Decoration of Weight - Coffee Beans Scale, 2020.; Photographer Jun-You Liu, The Aroma of Temperature - Thermometer, 2020.; Photographer Jun-You Liu, The Aroma of Temperature - Thermometer, 2020. Video Credits(On Behance): Jun-You Liu, Tien-Hui Hsueh. Music authorized by Artlist (License Number - 257448)
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Smell the Flower" is a set of thermometer and scale for pour over coffee. It transforms the measurement steps and movements of the pour over coffee more ritual and sensuous. "Coffee Beans Weighing" is converted into "Flower Arranging", and "Reading Thermometer" is presented as "Seeing the Blossom". Through the redesign of measuring equipment, the rational procedures are transformed, and makes pour over coffee turn into a more ritual and pleasant experience.
- Inspiration
- Inspiring by Japanese tea ceremony and flower arrangement, people feel strong sense of ritual when they either participate in it or see it. In the process of tea ceremony and flower arrangement, people can refresh their spirit and cultivate their mind. Pour over coffee is also an activity with sense of ritual. It act as a soft reset, offer us a chance to collect ourselves and take a breath.
- Research
- First of all, I use a case study to do research on tea ceremony, and read other papers that study "the sense of ritual" from the perspectives of art, performance, and life. Then, with the meaning of pour over coffee to me, I started to create this work. This work provides a new perspective for the vast pour over coffee community to explore the possibility of the development of pour over coffee, which has been developed to the extreme in technique, towards artistic appreciation in the future.
- Challenge
- In terms of concept, it is a challenge to choose which part in the pour over coffee should be transformed, what way of expression it is transformed into, whether the operator and the viewer can have aesthetic feelings at the same time, and so on. The difficulty of implementation is to improve the accuracy of the mechanism. Calibrating the the scale, fine-tuning the rotation angle of the petals corresponded with temperature, etc., are challenges that have been overcome after many attempts.
- Realization and Technology
- In "Decoration of Weight", the body part is made of ceramic material with the hand-worn process, red copper with spin forgin are used to make the weighing pan, and the mechanism is made of springs.The weight flower is handmade. In "The Aroma of Temperature", a ready-made analog thermometer mechanism is used, with a laser-cut aluminum sheet and an acrylic sheet pressed by a mold.
- Operation and Interaction
- After deciding the weight, insert the weight-leaves(1g) and fruits(2g) on the branch, and placed in the copper pan of the light-colored bottle. Then put the coffee beans into the copper pan of another dark bottle, and the weighing is completed when the height of the two pans is the same. Insert the thermometer into the hot water, and the petals will slowly spin to open like blossom. Each petal represents 10 degrees, and the temperature can be known by watching the degree of rotation.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2019 in Taiwan Taipei and finished in August 2020 in Taiwan Taipei.
- Specifications
- Decoration of Weigh - Body part : 80(w) x 80(d) x 180(h) mm, 90(w) x 90(d) x 180(h) mm Flower Weight : 70(w) x 30(d) x 250(h) mm The Aroma of Temperature - Base : 57(w) x 57(d) x 63.5(h) mm Thermometer : 82(w) x 82(d) x 240(h) mm
- Keywords
- pour over coffee, sense of ritual, aesthetic feeling, coffee scale, thermometer, smell the flower
