Press Release
Object Series Audio and Sound Equipment by Sungjae Han Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Audio and Sound Equipment Design
Sungjae Han honored for audio and sound equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Object Series Audio and Sound Equipment by Sungjae Han, designed for Ballon de Paris, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Audio and Sound Equipment Design category. The result belongs to 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Object Series Audio and Sound Equipment
Object Series is a loudspeaker designed for high quality sound reproduction. Each pipe shaped soundbox is kept separate, so the tones do not interfere with one another. The pipe form reduces irregular internal reflections and limits sound distortion. Vicuna wool is placed where the sound is reflected, following a technique developed by a French family that has made string instruments for more than one hundred years. The grouped pipes give the form of a blooming flower. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a LAN port and a USB port allow connection to computers, laptops and televisions.
About Sungjae Han
He naturally became interested in painting and music from an early age due to the influence of his parents who were doing art. After continuing his artistic activities, he majored in crafts in college and started making speakers with good sound quality and design. The most special thing about the speakers he makes is that the most suitable form for sound quality is the design itself. He was in charge of designing sound equipment in many countries for about 10 years, and developed and released sound equipment technology five years ago.
Award Record
This recognition makes Sungjae Han a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Audio and Sound Equipment Design Award
The A' Audio Products Design Award is an international product design competition recognizing best audio equipment by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to audio product designers, sound equipment designers, industrial designers and product engineers from all countries. Typical entries include headphones, microphones, speakers, amplifiers, soundbars and turntables. The awarded audio products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/audio-products
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/150856
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/150856
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!150856
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/161754
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.ballondeparis.fr/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Object Series Audio and Sound Equipment
- Function
- Audio and Sound Equipment
- Category
- Audio and Sound Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Entertainment
- Colors
- Dark Red, Black, Silver, Maroon and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ballon de Paris
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sungjae Han
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #150856
Credits
- Team
- Raphael Garell, Dongkyu Lee, Soohyun Lee and Jinwoon Jeong
- Image Credits
- Image #1, 5: Dongkyu Lee, Object 6, 2023. Image #2, 3, 4: Dongkyu Lee, Object 9, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The object series is a high-end speaker with a variety of technologies. The Vicuna technology developed by the Garell family, which has been producing string instruments for more than 100 years in France, has been applied to the object series to will give users a clearer and grander sound. The object series is designed separately to convey the original sound to the listener without interfering with each other's sounds. The shape of the pipes together like this has the appearance of a flower blooming.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration of the design is that it shows the structure itself, where multiple pipes are gathered for the original sound transmission. To make a good sound, the speaker should have fewer irregularly reflective corners. So, the soundbox is pipe shaped is the most ideal structure. Also, the object series is designed to keep each soundbox intact, minimizing sound distortion.
- Research
- The design began based on saving two soundboxes each on Twitter and Mid, and went through the process of finding the most optimized size and proportion both functionally and aesthetically. The audio speaker was produced by sharing tasks such as sketch process, material research, woodwork production, sound structure design, and exterior design.
- Challenge
- Many design modifications have been made to make the structure of multiple pipes look more aesthetic. It also went through several trials and errors to apply Vicuna technology.
- Realization and Technology
- Vicuna Technology: Vicuna wool, called the fiber of God, delicately disperses the density of sound with the rich air between the thin fibers. Founder Louis Garrell successfully placed a Vicuna Wool behind the strings of the instrument to release ultra-high and ultra-low notes and deliver the original sound in abundance. The object series applies this technology as it is, placing Vicuna wool where the sound is reflected, realizing the original sound with little distortion.
- Operation and Interaction
- The object series is equipped with Bluetooth 5.0, so high-quality sound sources can be transmitted without compressing them, and Wi-Fi technology is included, so you can play music with various applications. It is also equipped with an LAN line and a usb port, so it can work with computers, laptops, and televisions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in France in February 2022 and will be exhibited in SIGNIEL Busan, Korea in June 2023.
- Specifications
- 420mm x 356mm x 1000mm (Object 6) / 420mm x 356mm x 670mm (Object 9) / Object 6 is designed so that a high-pitched twitter is located near the ear when the listener is sitting.
- Keywords
- Vicuna Technology, Design Speaker, Flower Speaker, Artistic Speaker, Sound Equipment, Audio Equipment
