Press Release
Cyan Bird Brooch and Pendant by Xiaojie Hu Receives the A' Design Award in Jewelry Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Xiaojie Hu for jewelry design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Cyan Bird Brooch and Pendant by Xiaojie Hu, designed for Hu's Cloisonné Jewellery, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding Cyan Bird Brooch and Pendant
Cyan Bird is a piece of jewelry that can be worn as a brooch or as a pendant. The design shows a bird standing on a window lattice. The bird is made with the traditional cloisonne technique, which gives rich and lively colors. The hollow window is made of 18k gold and is light in weight. Inlaid diamonds add brightness in the sun. The cloisonne work is made by hand through more than ten steps, including cutting, carving, wire work, glazing, firing at 800 degrees and grinding. The brooch measures 49 mm high and 41 mm wide.
About Xiaojie Hu
Cloisonne is an intangible cultural heritage. It has been introduced into China since the Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years. Due to exquisite production, complicated craftsmanship, scarce production and high price, it has always been only used by the palace nobles. After hundreds of years of inheritance and evolution, integrating traditional Chinese aesthetics and cultural wisdom, cloisonne has become a very representative craftsmanship in China. With the popularization of industrialization, people pursue efficiency more, and fewer and fewer people are engaged in this pure handicraft.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiaojie Hu a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Jewelry Design Award
The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Typical entries include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. The awarded jewelry designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/jewelry
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/133641
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/133641
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!133641
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/322134
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cyan Bird Brooch and Pendant
- Function
- Brooch and Pendant
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Tan, Ghost White, Dark Khaki and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hu's Cloisonné Jewellery
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaojie Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #133641
Credits
- Team
- Photographer：Danny Duan
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The artist integrates the traditional cloisonne craft into the jewelry design, making the design more modern while retaining the traditional Oriental characteristics, and striving to make efforts for the inheritance and development of the traditional cloisonne craft.
- Inspiration
- In ancient Chinese mythology, Cyan bird symbolize happiness. The whole design depicts a Cyan bird standing on the window lattice singing for its owner. The birds made of cloisonne are rich in color, gorgeous, beautiful and lively; the hollow window made of 18k gold is complex and light, with oriental characteristics. The inlaid diamonds shine in the sun, making the whole work look gorgeous and exquisite. When light reflects the shadow through the hollowed-out pane, light and shadow overlap, as if two birds were talking to each other, and the beautiful story slowly unfolded.
- Research
- Because the craftsmanship of Cloisonne uses copper as the inner bottom tire, in order to make the blue and green more vivid, it can experiment with silver tires. So the artist tried to adjust during the production process and successfully got more beautiful colors.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge of this design is to break through the tradition and combine the cloisonné craftsmanship originally applied to the utensils with gold and gemstones to make the design a unique piece of jewelry.
- Realization and Technology
- The Cyan bird cloisonne process used by this work is very complicated, need after cutting, carving, tinsel, silver inlay, coated with glaze, high temperature, grinding, etc more than ten working procedure, to do work in 800 - degree firing 20-30 times, can obtain the beautiful color, and these should be done purely manual. Due to the uncertainty of handwork, the success rate of a perfect cloisonne is not high, which is all the more precious in today's speed seeking industrial age.
- Operation and Interaction
- This piece can be used as a brooch and necklace in different occasions
- Project Duration and Location
- The project will be designed and produced in Beijing in 2021, and it will take 3 months in total.
- Specifications
- Brooch size: 49mm (high) X 41mm (wide)
- Keywords
- Cloisonne jewellery, Cyan bird, Chinoiserie jewellery, Enamel Jewelry, Cloisonne Brooch , Pendant
