Press Release
Shibing Yang Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Greenery Bench in Furniture Design
Shibing Yang acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Greenery Bench by Shibing Yang, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Greenery Bench
Greenery is a bench designed to be combined with living or artificial plants. The structure is made of environment-friendly wood board with a wood veneer outer surface. A planter of stainless steel is fitted at one side, and the seat cushions are covered in leather with polyurethane foam inside. The bench measures 1600 mm in width, 440 mm in depth and 430 mm in height. Seating is offered for two or three people, with extra space for small items. The form recalls an ancient Chinese garden pavilion, and the intent is to bring a calm natural element into residential and public spaces.
About Shibing Yang
China's emerging furniture designer-Ren Yu, he is an interesting furniture designer, loves life, and has always been passionate about new things. For Ren Yu, design is not an empty concept, let alone a popular element. It is an insight into rooted life. Expressing his own thinking through design; for design, in addition to form and function, he seeks the beauty of the text of the product, trying to create a dialogue with the user through the product.
Award Record
Shibing Yang is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/145874
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/145874
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!145874
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/294475
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Greenery Bench
- Function
- Bench
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Black, Rosy Brown, Gray, Light Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shibing Yang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #145874
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Greenery Bench is a furniture piece designed to integrate with different plants, its concept originated from the eastern tea culture, with a hint of the ancient Chinese garden where you can see wood pavilion surrounded by water and greenery. The initial idea of designing this piece is to create an organic combination of furniture and plants in response to our innate tendency to seek a connection to nature, thus the design of the bench makes it can be placed in both residential space and public space.
- Inspiration
- With the impact of Covid, the fragile connection between us and nature suffered another critical hit. The designer thinks it’s important to adapt the biophilic design into furniture making as well. Inspired by the scenic atmosphere of Eastern tea culture, the designer wanted to bring its tranquility with a furniture piece. The design comes from ancient Chinese architecture, it looks like part of an old garden pavilion, yet the minimal silhouette and metal planter provided it with contemporary characteristics.
- Research
- Many studies have shown that most of us spend 90% of our time indoors, but human have a strong affinity towards nature, a environment devoid of nature would create a mismatch with the potential threat to health and quality of life. It is clear that people who live or work in space with more natural element has significantly lower anxiety level and higher productivity, thus making furniture that integrates plant would help create a more comfortable space for our target audiences.
- Challenge
- One of the main challenges in the design process was making a truthful and natural combination of Furniture and Plants, this is why the design team looked into tea culture as it has a vivid symbolic identity that immediately brings people to somewhere tranquil and full of nature, where time slows down and nobody is in a hurry. By merging such image into the design, the combination of the plant and the bench seems logical and understandable, thus making the Greenery Bench not only provide a physical space for people to sit and enjoy their time, but also a spiritual garden that bends time where the present is the most important thing in life.
- Realization and Technology
- Greenery Bench uses the environment-friendly wood board as its structure material. With wood veneer as its outer material. The planter on the side is made of stainless steel, and leather seat cushions with polyurethane foam inside.
- Operation and Interaction
- The product primarily serves as a normal bench with seating and extra space for item placement. It is designed ideally for 2 and 3 persons at most. The user can switch the types of plants according to their personal taste and even place the faux plants inside the metal planter.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in April of 2022 and was completed in Shenzhen in June of 2022.
- Specifications
- Width 1600 mm x Depth 440 mm x Height 430 mm
- Keywords
- Post-pandemic, Bench, Greenery, Relaxation, Multi-scene, Furniture, Well-being
