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Sketch Shelf by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University recognized 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/ Sketch Shelf by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, designed for Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Freestyle Outdoor Living Co. Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
About Sketch Shelf
Sketch shelf is an orderly shelf within chaos. Made by digital design method. The design inspiration of the shelf is the building steel skeleton under construction at the construction site. Designer combined line to create a space for storage by using algorithm. Line can be constituted methodically in chaos. Seen from a distance, it is a mess of lines, but it is actually a shelf. And these special shelf come out with not only answers of finding uncertainties, but also beauty of modern technology and art.
About Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
The team relying on the furniture design center of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University-Freestyle Outdoor Living Co.,Ltd Outdoor Home R&D Center, and was jointly founded by a number of independent designers, university professors, doctors and masters. Long-term commitment to furniture design and brand planning, product design copyright transfer, exhibition planning and other cooperation; Designers explore new design dimensions with international standards and intelligent thinking, and deeply explore the aesthetic and philosophical values in design; He is good at combining unique innovative thinking with business design, integrating aesthetics, culture, design and intelligent manufacturing to...
Award Record
With this recognition, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. It 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. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/147883
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147883
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147883
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/340892
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sketch Shelf
- Function
- Shelf
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Silver, White Smoke and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Freestyle Outdoor Living Co. Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147883
Credits
- Team
- Xuelian Li, Shichao Wang, Hongwang Zhu and Lihong Xin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Designer combined line to create a space for storage by using algorithm. Line can be constituted methodically in chaos. Seen from a distance, it is a mess of lines, but it is actually a shelf. And these special shelf come out with not only answers of finding uncertainties, but also beauty of modern technology and art.
- Inspiration
- The design inspiration of the shelf is the building steel skeleton under construction at the construction site. They are complex and orderly, order within chaos.
- Research
- Digital design, a dynamic design style, pursuing uncertainties, can create a huge amount of variate by logical algorithm, as well as interact with human. Therefore, these random states and results of a new sense of openness bring people in certain environment more space of imagination, which we believe will change our way of thinking someday.
- Challenge
- Social perspective. It can challenge the public's understanding of traditional shelves. Technology implementation. During the design process, the computer will produce a lot of random structures, designers need to balance the relationship between these random forms and product forms. In addition, designers should balance these random forms with the realization of industrial mass production.
- Realization and Technology
- Designer discuss the application of digital design method to give the product a new form of research. First, we build a framework of product form we want, and then use grasshopper software to generate some shapes randomly. Designers adjust these forms according to ergonomics, aesthetics, etc., and choose the style suitable for industrial mass production technology, and finally present a work. Random forms are difficult to manufacture because they cannot be made directly after traditional engineering drawings. So we decided to break the whole into pieces of metal, and then connect the pieces.
- Operation and Interaction
- The shelf can hold things, crisscross lines can also hang things, and the top support leg can be exposed to hang clothes.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in August 2020 in Hangzhou
- Specifications
- 812 mm * 424 mm * 1630 mm
- Keywords
- shelf, line, office, commercial furniture, art furniture, digital design
