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Yansheng Xia, Jinxiang Li and Chenglong Pu Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Wearing Chair in Furniture Design
Yansheng Xia, Jinxiang Li and Chenglong Pu acknowledged for furniture 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 announced that Wearing Chair by Yansheng Xia, Jinxiang Li and Chenglong Pu, designed for Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The award was conferred within 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Wearing Chair
Wearing is a chair with changeable covers, designed to be dressed like a person. Three covers are offered. Colorful uses a soft upholstery method with layered fabric texture, fixed by buttons and zippers. Gentleman is made of leather with a hollow-out effect, fixed by concealed buckles and a zipper. Fluffy applies the texture and filling method of a down jacket, with smooth fabric and down cotton inside. Users can change the cover with the season or the mood, so one chair can take on different styles.
About Yansheng Xia, Jinxiang Li and Chenglong Pu
设计师是郑州轻工业大学艺术与设计学院的学生。在学习期间，她积极参与设计竞赛，对产品设计有着浓厚的兴趣，并获得了许多国家级奖项。
Award Record
Yansheng Xia, Jinxiang Li and Chenglong Pu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
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/137414
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137414
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137414
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/273962
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wearing Chair
- Function
- Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Brown, Silver, Black, Sienna and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yansheng Xia, Jinxiang Li and Chenglong Pu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #137414
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- If the chair also has life, it can feel the warmth and coldness. Then should he also have a few sets of his own four seasons clothes. My inspiration came from dressing the chair and unfolding. WEARING CHAIR is a changeable chair. Users can dress the chair in different clothes according to different moods in different seasons, and change the style and temperament of the chair at will to meet the different needs of users.
- Inspiration
- The first dress "COLORFUL" adopts the soft package method, which is inspired by the contrasting elements of clothing design, and the organic texture of clothes and fabrics is used in it to increase the sense of visual layering. The second dress "GENTLEMAN", inspired by leather, is made of leather. The third dress "FLUFFY", inspired by the down jacket, applies the texture and filling method of down jacket to the design of chair clothes, giving people a full and comfortable feeling.
- Research
- The development of furniture is inseparable from the fact that the current society is in a changing environment, and the society is in the process of rapid development. With the rapid improvement of modern people's living standards and the increasing spiritual needs, more and more people's demands for accommodation are no longer single functional residence, but more spiritual and cultural pursuits.
- Challenge
- The research process is complicated. Through a large number of investigations and offline interviews, the current development trend of furniture and the ergonomic structure of chairs are studied, and a large number of data tests are done to meet the comfortable use. At present, there are some problems such as packaging, market, mass production and listing.
- Realization and Technology
- "COLORFUL" adopts the soft package method, in which the organic texture of clothes and fabrics is applied, and buttons and zippers are used for fixing. "GENTLEMAN" is made of leather. At the same time, the hollow-out effect is designed, and the structure is fixed in the form of concealed buckle and zipper. "FLUFFY" applies the texture and filling method of down jacket to the design of chair clothes. The fabric is smooth and feels smooth, and down cotton is used as the filling inside.
- Operation and Interaction
- Users can change their chairs into different clothes according to different seasons and different moods, and change the style and temperament of chairs at will to meet different needs of users.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Zhengzhou in March 2021, was completed in Zhengzhou in June 2021, and was exhibited in the exhibition hall in June 2021.
- Keywords
- personification， Diverse styles， Comfortable and beautiful， Visual experience， young
