Press Release
Firefly Switch by Yuze Tao and Tinghuan Du Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Building Materials and Construction Components Design
Yuze Tao and Tinghuan Du honored for building materials and construction components design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Firefly Switch by Yuze Tao and Tinghuan Du, designed for Hangzhou Sicco Art technology Co., Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Building Materials and Construction Components Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Firefly Switch
Firefly can provide users with a more intuitive and imaginative way to control the lighting system. Firefly combines light control with dynamic and light perception, adjusts the brightness and illumination area by detecting the sliding of fingers. The wake-up function and night mode are added to meet the needs of different customers, create a comfortable, humanized, and intelligent living environment, and offer the possibility to enhance the connection between the home virtual operating system and the real world.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yuze Tao and Tinghuan Du a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Building Materials and Construction Components Design Award
The A' Building Components Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good building components by best brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to building material manufacturers, building material brands, construction product designers and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include bricks, beams, windows, doors, insulation materials and roofing materials. Awarded building components designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/building-components
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/147781
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147781
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147781
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/328175
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Firefly Switch
- Function
- Switch
- Category
- Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Silver, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hangzhou Sicco Art technology Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yuze Tao and Tinghuan Du
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147781
Credits
- Team
- Yuze Tao and Tinghuan Du
- Image Credits
- Designer Yuze Tao,2022.; Designer Tinghuan Du,2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Firefly increases the personalized and emotional expression of the switch in indoor scenes, instead of a cold screen or a functional button, which enriches the interaction between people and smart home system products, and can meet the personalized needs of users. Firefly enhances the connection between the home virtual operating system and the real world.
- Inspiration
- Using the Firefly is as easy as operating a smartphone. Control the lights in the room by controlling the scattered light points on the screen, and operate the lighting system like a painting. When the switch is not used in daily life, the panel presents a faint dynamic dispersion of light spots. When people approach the screen, the light spots on the screen gather like fireflies. It can be used by users to play photos every day, like a delicate picture frame on the wall of the space, or the personalized expression of the user's preferences through the definition interface recently.
- Research
- Is the switch only used as a switch? Is it just a screen? When we use them, they give us back click sound and the sense of touch. Just imagine giving them imagination and romance. The indoor lights are gathered and scattered like fireflies, while the human fingers instinctively have painting behavior, and the human imagination gives the fingers to paint the light distribution in the indoor space.
- Challenge
- Firefly interprets the shape with modern and exquisite details on the wall, which can adjust the customized base material according to the user's home material. The light control system are transmitted in the way of games, which makes the switch system more entertaining with user experience. The rich details and the materials of the wallpaper are linked and echoed, and efforts are made to establish a deeper relationship with the interior lighting, establish a deeper association and interaction.
- Realization and Technology
- Switches are usually wall-mounted and isolated from the home decor, and people seem to be used to this lopsided contrast. The Firefly is visually better integrated with the space background material, which allows users to choose a custom base material according to the home interior style. By connecting devices to adjust the lighting and projection requirements of different spaces based on the scene and the user's preference, bring more emotion to the function.
- Operation and Interaction
- Users can control the brightness through this smart room controller, just like you usually use smart phones and drawing boards. It can be used to adjust the lighting system to strengthen people's perception of light and the way of control, let the switch interact with users dynamically, encourage curiosity and human interaction with light sources, rather than define the control of indoor lighting as the control of opening and closing.
- Project Duration and Location
- Conceptual plan will be conceived in September 2020, conceptual approach will be sought in 2021, technical support will be found in September 2021, and conceptual plan will be completed in September 2022.
- Specifications
- Width 180mm x Depth 180mm x Height 50mm
- Keywords
- Switch, Smart home, Interaction, Vision, Home accessories
