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Rims and Spokes Coffee Table by Rashad Habib Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Rashad Habib 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/ Rims and Spokes Coffee Table by Rashad Habib, designed for Habib Rashad, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 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.
More About Rims and Spokes Coffee Table
Rims and Spokes, as the name speaks for itself, a Coffee cum showcase table made from rims and spokes of a bicycle topped off with chamfered glass pane makes for an excellent focal piece. The design is innovative yet simple, elegant yet functional. It fits all types of interior settings due to its chrome-transparent color scheme. The height of the table is deliberately etched to suit a relaxed floor seating setup. Overall the ingenuity and creativity of the product is unique and may just be the perfect center piece for any space of just about any customer.
About Rashad Habib
Habib Rashad is an interior design student at Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He is an Interior design student with creative design skills focused on aesthetics, function and structure. He can solve design problems and enjoys sketching and rendering. He has the intent and ability to mobilise resources through fundraisers during testing times to help the needy in his community. He loves animals and understands that it is essential to ‘design efficiently’ and ‘design sustainably’ to create hope for all lives on the planet.
Award Record
Rashad Habib is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/135328
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135328
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135328
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/324192
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Rims and Spokes Coffee Table
- Function
- Coffee Table
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Silver, Linen, Light Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Habib Rashad
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Rashad Habib
- Country
- India
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #135328
Credits
- Team
- Habib Rashad
- Image Credits
- Habib Rashad
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The innovative idea of combining same kind of bicycle wheels helps to provide good strength and balance to the structure. The rims & spokes coffee table doesn’t attract rust due to the use of brass caps on each spoke of the wheel, which adds to the strength of the structure. The bicycle wheels are fixed as a singular structure with detachable glass provision making it easy to clean and maintain.
- Inspiration
- The ideology of designing a coffee table from bicycle wheels is to make a creative design with focus on aesthetics, function and structure. The design is a classy coffee table with ample space to store things on it, easy to maintain and visually appealing.
- Research
- During November 2021, I started my research on materials for designing a piece of furniture that is sustainable. Through research different types of materials used in bicycle wheels was finalized. Then the steel wheels with brass caps on the spokes were chosen to help the structure from not rusting and also providing good strength to the structure.
- Challenge
- The most challenging part was the circular glass fixture on the top of the table. As the spokes of the wheels were not easy to balance the glass. It was then decided to use “L” shaped steel pieces which helped to elevate the glass at a level that balances it and gives stability being attached to the table.
- Realization and Technology
- Basic coffee tables, nowadays, are made with plywood, particle board and general fixtures used, are basic wooden joinery like box joint, basic butt joint and nuts & bolts. The rims & spokes coffee table is made using welding technique called ‘Arc welding’. The top two circular wheels are welded at the Centre and two half rims and two quarter rims are welded at two centers of the top wheels. For the stabilization and balancing of glass at the top is added “L” shaped steel pieces welded at 4 corners of each wheel with a hole on the top to attach Plastic Suction Cup to hold the glass on the top.
- Operation and Interaction
- The most important aspect while designing the ‘rims & spokes coffee table’ is to make it user-friendly and maintenance-free. The coffee table with its ample space design can be accessed from any direction due to its circular pattern and helps to keep things comfortably spread across it.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2021 and was finished by January 2022 in Hyderabad, India.
- Specifications
- 1340 mm x 700 mm x 460 mm
- Keywords
- Coffee Table, Glass, Table, Table Design, Bicycle, Wheel, Design, Furniture, Furniture Design
