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Tomori Aid Lantern Kit by Yuji Yanagisawa Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Yuji Yanagisawa honored for lighting products and fixtures 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 Tomori Aid Lantern Kit by Yuji Yanagisawa, designed for Yuji Yanagisawa Design Inc, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The award was conferred within 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.
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.
Regarding Tomori Aid Lantern Kit
Tomori Aid is a collapsible lighting kit that turns a flashlight into a soft lantern. The kit is made of cardboard and is assembled with a simple structure and simple fixing methods. Any flashlight of a suitable size can be used, so a failed flashlight can be replaced by another one. When folded, Tomori Aid fits within an A4 size and is easy to carry in a disaster prevention bag. When assembled, the lantern measures 260 mm in height and 170 mm on each side. The design is intended for use during evacuation and in daily life at home.
About Yuji Yanagisawa
After working at an interior design office in Tokyo,Yuji had moved to Denmark for studying danish design.Then moved to london and Berlin for working as a freelance designer.In 2019,He'd gotten the award prize of Tokyo business design award, and decided to move to Tokyo for making his own design company.His major curiosity is solving problems and making people's life a little bit happy using the power of design and ideas.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yuji Yanagisawa a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
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/138011
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/138011
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!138011
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/306002
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://tomori-aid.com/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tomori Aid Lantern Kit
- Function
- Lantern Kit
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Black, Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Peru and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yuji Yanagisawa Design Inc
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yuji Yanagisawa
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #138011
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It is a lighting kit that changes the light of a linear LED flashlight into the light of a soft lantern born from the designer's own evacuation experience.
- Inspiration
- When evacuating to a shelter due to typhoon damage in Japan, I've experienced the difference between imagination and reality. So I've developed Tomori Aid to solve problems by design when a natural disaster strikes.
- Research
- During a power outage cause of a typhoon in Japan, the method of putting a PET bottle filled with water was spreading in news and SNS. So I realized that there was an urgent need to have an indirect light like a lantern, even though they had a flashlight, at the actual site, and started development to improve it.
- Challenge
- It has both "portability that can be carried in a disaster prevention bag when evacuating" and "design that makes you want to decorate", and it is designed that it can be used as both a daily light and a light when a natural disaster strikes.
- Realization and Technology
- Tomori Aid is a collapsible lighting kit made of cardboard. Easy to assemble with simple structures and fixing methods, any flashlight of the right size can be turned into a lantern. It is designed to fit in A4 size when folded and is easy to carry. If one flashlight fails, you can substitute another flashlight, so you don't have to worry about lighting when you need it.
- Operation and Interaction
- Based on the designer's own evacuation experience, in order to solve the problems of power outages and lights at evacuation shelters, it has ben achieved both portability that is useful during evacuation and design that can be used in daily life.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2019 in Tokyo and finished in February 2021.
- Specifications
- When folded:H260mm x W180mm When assembled:H260mm x W170mm D170mm
- Keywords
- lantern, light, sustainable, prevention, flashlight, eco-friendly, disaster,
