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Jiabao Li Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design

Jiabao Li acknowledged 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film by Jiabao Li has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation 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 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.

Regarding Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film

Glacier Lament is an art installation about the loss of glaciers. Pantone lists four color cards for glacier blue, yet in real glaciers this blue is variable and dynamic. As glaciers disappear, this unique blue also disappears. The blue tones of glaciers in Alaska were sampled and blended, then held in sixty recycled glass vials suspended above a canvas. Each time a glacier calving event occurred, one vial fell. By the end of the exhibition all sixty vials had fallen, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.

About Jiabao Li

Working at the intersection of emerging technology, art and design, Jiabao Li creates new ways for humans to perceive the world. She works across nature, humans’ designed environment, and belief structures and creates works addressing climate change, humane technology, and a just, sustainable future. Her mediums include wearable, robot, AR/VR, projection, performance, software, installation. In Jiabao’s TED Talk, she uncovered how technology mediates the way we perceive reality. At Apple, she invents and explores new technologies for future products. She graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Design in Technology with Distinction and best thesis award.

Award Record

With this recognition, Jiabao Li is a winner of 2 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' 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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film
Function
Art Installation Lighting Film
Category
Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Arts
Colors
Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Slate Blue and Steel Blue
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Jiabao Li
Country
United States of America
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#140689

Credits

Team
Ryan Cortes Perez and Cooper Galvin
Image Credits
Jiabao Li

Design Details

Unique Properties
There are four color cards in PANTONE for glacier blue. However, in real glaciers, this blue color is variable and dynamic. As glaciers are disappearing, this unique blue is also disappearing. We sampled and blended the blue color from glaciers in Alaska and hung them in recycled glass vials. When one glacier calving happened, one color vial fell down. At the end of the exhibition, all 60 vials fell down, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.
Inspiration
Glaciers are sentinels of climate change. They are the most visible evidence of global warming today. This series of works embodies the stunning beauty, rapid change, fragility, destructive power, and magnificence of glaciers. At the same time, they challenge the audience with the dramatic, irreversible ecological damages from climate change.
Realization and Technology
Data sonification, data physicalization, electronics, glacier melting data
Project Duration and Location
Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 2021 Alaska State Museum, 2021 Donghu Shan Art Museum, China, Jul–Nov 2020 Global Just Recovery Gathering, Apr 2021 Broto Art-Climate-Science, Nov–Dec 2020 Artists in Nature International Network, Dynamic natural connections, 2021
Keywords
Glacier, climate change, light, Alaska

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