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Inbalance Electric Vehicle Charging Station by Desdorp Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design
Desdorp honored for energy products, projects and devices design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design category for Inbalance Electric Vehicle Charging Station by Desdorp, designed for Inbalance grid. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 assessed 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 Inbalance Electric Vehicle Charging Station
Inbalance grid Ev charging station is unobtrusive and honest. Its clear lines and selection of materials allows product to be suitable for aesthetic integration in different urban, office or domestic environments. The technical solution of dynamic load management, cloud control system and future-proof grid expansion make it a reliable and unique product. Inbalance Ev Charging station represents balance between form, function and material with multiple personalization and management possibilities.
About Desdorp
Desdorp is industrial product design studio. Each new design project for them is an inspiring journey where understandable, aesthetic and innovative objects are born. In cooperation with companies Desdorp strive for the best results that bring customer satisfaction. The studio is represented by designers Deividas Juozulynas and Denis Orlenok who have won several national and international awards. A combination of multiple design techniques and methods as well as integration of different users and manufacturing specialists into the development process always lead to the most convenient design solutions.
Award Record
This recognition makes Desdorp a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design Award
The A' Energy Design Award is an international competition recognizing good energy products, projects and services by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to energy product designers, energy device engineers, industrial design studios and energy systems architects from all countries. Typical entries include solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric generators, geothermal systems, bioenergy converters and fuel cells. The awarded energy product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/energy
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/131254
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131254
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131254
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/295195
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://desdorp.com/portfolio/inbalancegrid/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Inbalance Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Function
- Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Category
- Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sustainability and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Silver, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Inbalance grid
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Desdorp
- Country
- Lithuania
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131254
Credits
- Team
- Desdorp (Deividas Juozulynas, Denis Orlenok) and Inbabalance Grid
- Image Credits
- Desdorp; 5: Inbalance; Photo & Video credits: Inbalance.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Inbalance grid EV charging station is designed neatly and has clear lines - so the product is suitable for aesthetic integration in different urban, office or domestic environments. It may look futuristic and classic at the same time. It is clear to understand and easy to use. It can be a stand-alone version or it can be scaled into a complex system. It is managed and controlled via the cloud and dynamic charging options provided according to the demand. The design is solid and trustworthy.
- Inspiration
- The product design was inspired by different urban environments and modern office buildings, where balance between form, function and material is found. Inbalance EV charging station is unobtrusive and honest. Its’ shape and selection of materials allows it to be perfectly integrated in any type of environment. It fits well into the narrow streets of the old town or city centre and in the environment of new business centres, parking lots or private homes.
- Research
- Dynamic load management is the way of solving the problem of power limitations of electrical grids and buildings. The main innovation is to balance out available power by redistributing it in an intelligent way, based on demand. This electric vehicle station solution is designed for quick, easy and inexpensive installation and extensive customization. If desired, this station may also be connected to different electrical networks with different capacities.
- Challenge
- The main goal was to design an EV charging station, which could be installed anywhere. A product that would look elegant and have a clear understandable user experience. It was challenging to optimise hardware to the essentials, to separate management and control to the cloud and mobile app, while keeping light indication and personnalisation options for the product. From outside this complex solution has clear form and only few visible points for required maintenance.
- Realization and Technology
- The minimalistic form of the product and aerodynamic upper part is highly water-resistant, so it can be relied on to be installed in parking lots, parking areas, garages and residential areas. The upper part of the EV charging station is modular, so the number of AC charging ports can be changed from 2 to 4 as required with a power capacity up to 22kW per socket. Continuous connection of chargers one to another with a single cable makes the installation easy and future-proof.
- Operation and Interaction
- Inbalance cloud control system is designed to react and balance the grid on a national level according to requirements of power providers or grid operators. This solution also let location owners to apply dynamic pricing models or restrict access for different client groups / locations. Light indicators next to the sockets help to understand the charging status quickly and intuitively. Control through the app creates a pleasant and smooth user-experience with a convenient simple payment process.
- Project Duration and Location
- Technical development of innovative hardware and business model started in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2018. By the year 2020 Desdorp team has joined development design process. By the end of the same year primary prototypes were built. In the middle of 2021 EV charging stations were installed multiple locations of Vilnius and actively used daily up today. In October 2021 EV Charging station was highlighted during the design week in Vilnius and then won the National “Good Design” prize in Lithuania.
- Specifications
- Height: 1140 mm Diameter: 169 mm The main case is manufactured from stainless steel and the head is made of plastic with PMMA integration for light indication and numbering.
- Keywords
- EV Charging, Electric, Vehicle, Station, Charging, Sustainable, EV, minimalist, Inabalance, Grid
