Press Release
Yihui Liao and Chunmao Wu Receives the A' Design Award for Journey Mate Sound Explored Backpack in Idea and Conceptual Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yihui Liao and Chunmao Wu for idea and conceptual design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Journey Mate Sound Explored Backpack by Yihui Liao and Chunmao Wu, designed for Donghua University, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Idea and Conceptual Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding Journey Mate Sound Explored Backpack
Journey Mate is a smart modular backpack which can enrich travel experiences. The innovations of this product are presented as follows. First, the modular structure can offer convenient feelings, which can be stored and carried easily all day long. Second, the interactive visualized sound provides travelers with a pleasure and memory experience via their visual-auditory interaction. Third, supported by the intellectual technology, the module keeps the real human elements of the travelled city, that enrich the quality of individuals travel life via voice library and world footprint library.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yihui Liao and Chunmao Wu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Idea and Conceptual Design Award
The A' Idea Design Award is an international idea design competition recognizing great ideas by designers, creators, innovators and free thinkers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to idea designers, conceptual designers, innovation consultants and creative thinkers from all countries. Typical entries include innovations, prototypes, blueprints, sketches, models and concepts. The awarded idea designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/idea
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/148775
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148775
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148775
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/326628
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GjXIvug1A
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Journey Mate Sound Explored Backpack
- Function
- Sound Explored Backpack
- Category
- Idea and Conceptual Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Design Industry and Innovation
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Dark Slate Gray, Black, Silver and Tan
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Donghua University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yihui Liao and Chunmao Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #148775
Credits
- Team
- Yihui Liao and Chunmao Wu
- Image Credits
- IP, image, and video credits belong to Donghua University.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Journal Mate is a smart modular backpack that enriches the travel experience. The innovation of the product are as follows. 1. The smart module offers travelers to collect sound samples of local languages via communicating with local individuals, triggering the pleasantness of multi-sensory interaction; 2. All sounds are visualized as waveform diagrams and collected into a personal Urban Sound Library, so as to achieve a sense of acquisition; 3. The modular structure provides users with a sense of control that is easy to store and carry all day long.
- Inspiration
- A new backpack enriches the role of travelers in their journey and make them to become a "voice designer" of the journey. Exploring and visualizing the interactive form of sound, that change the urban public life into a huge acoustic library. With the support of technology, Journey Mate provides travelers with a visual and listening multi-sensory experience, while keeping the human culture elements of each city.
- Research
- Background: Multisensory technology is gradually applied to the field of fashion multimedia design. Our research aims to enhance the user's pleasure perception and meaning experience of fashion multimedia products and fashion behaviors via multi-sensory design. Result: This work is a modular smart backpack that enriches the travel experience. Journey Mate collects voices during the journey and transforms them into a visual sound library and world footprint library, provides the pleasure and memory experience of visual and auditory interaction. Impact: It helps to promote the intelligent and emotional development of fashion design works.
- Challenge
- 1. The biggest challenge of the project is to realize new interaction methods. We need to know a lot about how to build input and output modules for device. 2. The design of the backpack itself should be flexible and user-friendly, and each independent form should be durable. 3. To what extent does the final product enrich the user's multi-sensory experience.
- Realization and Technology
- To the implementation of the algorithm, we promote the image generation of sound waves via sound recognition and analysis algorithm models. To the realization of materials, 100% recycled polyester is adopted in the body of bags, and leather is used for details (e.g., zipper, buckles).
- Operation and Interaction
- 1. The modular design of Journey Mate supports the storage and carriable of the whole journey, and it also supports two forms of backpack and shoulder bag. 2. When the user talks with local people in a specific region, the smart module automatically captures and stores their sound as samples. 3. Journey Mate processes the audio through algorithms and displays the generated sound waveforms on the screen of the backpack. 4. All sound waveforms are collected into the Urban Sound Library and World Footprint Library. After the trip, users can recall the happy moments during the trip via urban sound library.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2022 in Shanghai and finished in February 2023 in Shanghai.
- Specifications
- 505*300*160 mm (shoulder bag 420mm high, shoulder bag 85mm high). Capacity 20L
- Keywords
- Modular Travel Backpack, Smart Backpack, Voice Exploration, Sound and Media, Multi-sensory Experience, Fashion Accessories
