Knotted Bench by Minju Kang Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design

Minju Kang honored for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Knotted Bench by Minju Kang has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 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 Knotted Bench

Knotted is a bench designed as public furniture for indoor and outdoor spaces. The form is tied together like a ribbon to suggest connection and circulation. Discarded wire conduit pipe is bent by hand, bound with cable ties and fixed to structural stainless steel pipe legs. The complete structure is solid and stable, and the finish is unified in matte black. The pipe surface gives a soft impression, and the shape allows several sitting postures. Knotted reflects the idea of generational integration, where diverse lives are joined as one.

About Minju Kang

She is a designer, storyteller. She is a person who is interested in social phenomena and designs furniture by connecting them to them. She is interested in having a conversation with the world through design, and wants everyone to sympathize and use it. She discusses the essential elements of life and treats people and the world seriously. She is interested in connectivity. There is nothing in the world that is not connected, she says. So, she sets her gaze from the elements of nature, and has a perspective that gradually expands the world, including people and objects. She is challenging and active. When she think if she has some gaps, she builds a team that fills them up and collaborates.

Award Record

This recognition makes Minju Kang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/148056
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148056
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148056
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/339898
Further Information from the Laureate: http://asq.kr/YOtuLWga25

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Knotted Bench
Function: Bench
Category: Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Arts
Colors: Black, Dark Slate Gray, Lavender, Dark Gray and Gray
Images: 5

The Recognition

Laureate: Minju Kang
Country: Republic of Korea
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2022 - 2023
Design ID: #148056

Credits

Team: Minju Kang, Jieun Park, Haneul Han
Image Credits: Minju Kang, 2022

Design Details

Unique Properties: The project started with a focus on a life where everyone can coexist, a sustainable environment and discarded materials. A form tied together like a ribbon was expressed, and the bench tied to cable ties and stain pipes by using waste wire ELP pipe that is no longer used can function as public furniture and serve as recycled furniture. It is useful in indoor and outdoor spaces where everyone gathers together, and has a shape that induces various postures.
Inspiration: The starting point of this work began with an interest in intergenerational conflict and thoughts about the generation that is scattered in the rapid flow of social phenomena. Believe that life can be more sustainable than anything else when everyone is connected by embracing the diversity of life. In order to express the above form, it was produced in a connected form by tying a string.It was made into a knotted form.
Research: Through this work, tried to recognize the generational conflict that has become an issue as a social problem and to recognize the positive direction of generational integration. Induced a way for everyone to sit on a bench completed with a single string and connect and communicate. Furniture embodies the aesthetic sense of generational integration
Challenge: When bending and tying the pipe by hand, the pipe must not be wrinkled or deformed. It was necessary to make the pipes with a feeling of use clean so that they could function as furniture. The cable ties were fixed cleanly and completely so that the tied pipes would not come loose.
Realization and Technology: Materials used were wire ELP conduit, cable ties, and stainless pipe. Structural stained steel pipes were fabricated as the legs of the bench. Then, the wire help pipe was tied with cable ties and tied back to the stainless steel pipe. It is a solid and stable structure. The complex structure looks neat and is unified in matte black
Operation and Interaction: It is in the form of a ribbon tied together to show circulation. The material of the pipe gives the impression of a soft sofa. Each object is held together with cable ties, making it structurally sound.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in Gongju city, Korea in March 2022, completed in December 2022.
Specifications: 2460mm x 630mm x 500mm
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