Press Release
Starry Night Orchids by Seed Coleus Greenhouse Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Product Engineering and Technical Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Seed Coleus Greenhouse for product engineering and technical design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Starry Night Orchids by Seed Coleus Greenhouse, designed for National Cheng Kung University, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Product Engineering and Technical Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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.
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 Starry Night Orchids
Starry Night is a glowing orchid created through a biotechnology process. The orchid glows in the dark after high-entropy oxides that comply with European Union standards are absorbed through the leaf veins. No genetic modification is used. The petals show a designed pattern of light at night without any additional light source, recalling a starry sky. Several luminous colors are displayed. The plant measures 250 mm in width, 250 mm in length and 500 mm in height. The intent is to offer a calm and relaxing viewing experience.
Award Record
With this recognition, Seed Coleus Greenhouse is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Product Engineering and Technical Design Award
The A' Engineering Design Award is an international competition recognizing outstanding engineering projects by top engineers and consulting firms worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to product engineers, technical designers, industrial designers and industrial design studios from all countries. Entries typically include blueprints, prototypes, schematics, CAD models, technical drawings and machine designs. Awarded engineering designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/engineering
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/149423
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149423
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149423
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/336576
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Starry Night Orchids
- Function
- Orchids
- Category
- Product Engineering and Technical Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- National Cheng Kung University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Seed Coleus Greenhouse
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #149423
Credits
- Team
- Professor Dr. Yen-Hsun Su, Fei Pan, Ya-Hui Chang, Chia-Wei Chang, Li-Lin Huang, Wei-Sheng Chen, Flower Ku, Shu-Mei Wang, Chen-Piao Yen, Jyh-Ming Ting, Wei-Chien Ma and Sheng-Lung Tu
- Image Credits
- Image #1, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023. Image #2, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023. Image #3, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023. Image #4, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023. Image #5, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Orchids represent abundance, harvest, fertility, beauty, prosperity, and luxury. White orchids symbolize innocence and purity, as well as elegance and reverence. This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins. This technology further enables people to communicate with the glowing orchids in the senses and to feel the beauty and mystery of the glowing orchids in spirits as looking up at the starry night.
- Inspiration
- There is no need to enter the planet Pandora in a virtual movie. Seeing glowing orchids displaying multi-colored luminescence in a dark night as a starry night, one can feel positive emotions in life such as peace, comfort, relaxation, happiness, and fulfillment. When looking at the starry sky among the orchids and counting the twinkling stars, there are countless brilliant dreams in the tiny stars. In the end, the stars are like eternal memories that connect the whole galaxy.
- Research
- Orchids are of various species, colors, and shapes. Orchids are found in almost all ecological environments on earth, except for the cold polar regions or deserts. Its unique flower shape leads to high ornamental value. This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins. This technology further enables people to communicate with the starry night on glowing orchids in the senses and to feel the beauty and mystery of the glowing orchids in spirits as the starry night.
- Challenge
- This is the novel biotechnology to create a really glowing flower. This biotechnology is a NOT genetically modified technology. This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins, which make orchids glow in the designed pattern at night without other light sources.
- Realization and Technology
- The novel biotechnology creates the world’s first natural glowing orchid in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides using non-genetically modified leaf veins, which make orchids glow in the designed pattern at night without other light sources in the presentation of a starry night on the petals.
- Operation and Interaction
- This technology enables orchids to glow in the darkness by utilizing the leaf vein absorption of high-entropy oxides, which are in line with EU standards. Glowing orchid displays a starry night at night. Starry glowing orchids make people calm, comfortable, and relaxed, and moreover improve one's mood, such as a sense of accomplishment to reveal a unique experience, referring to a starry night.
- Project Duration and Location
- The glowing orchids are shown in the 2023 Taiwan International Orchid Show on March 4-19 2023 in Tainan, cooperating with the Taiwan Orchid Growers Association and Council of Agriculture (Taiwan).
- Specifications
- natural glowing orchids size dimensions, Width 250 mm x length 250 mm x Height 500 mm for physical products.
- Keywords
- glowing orchid, orchid, glowing plant, starry night, starry orchid, Avatar plant
