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Shape Care Multifunctional Fitness Device by Yating Yang and Yaxin Li Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
Yating Yang and Yaxin Li acknowledged for sporting goods, fitness and recreation equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Shape Care Multifunctional Fitness Device by Yating Yang and Yaxin Li, designed for DaoDun Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design category. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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.
More About Shape Care Multifunctional Fitness Device
Shape Care is an instrument that can meet the fitness needs of home exercisers. The design team found that most users focus on the training of hands, legs, abdomen and chest. After studying the Shape and principle of the fitness device, the design team determined three forms, which can be used as barbell by users in the original state. By bending it, it exercises the user's chest and legs. When disassembled into monomers, each monomer can be used as a dumbbell to exercise the arm, and when reassembled it can be used as an abdominal muscle wheel to exercise the abdominal muscles.
About Yating Yang and Yaxin Li
She is a graduate student in product design and is now a co-designer at Daodun as well as a design educator, having won numerous awards for students and herself. She combines teaching with social practice, combines creative teaching with product design, improves students' practical ability and cultivates students' creative product design thinking methods. After a lot of practice, students can confidently go to work or have the ability to go abroad for further study, improve the background of designers, and provide designers for design companies. She has also worked with universities to develop design courses for more students studying design.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yating Yang and Yaxin Li a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design Award
The A' Sporting Goods Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sports equipment designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sporting goods designers, fitness equipment designers, recreation equipment designers and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include basketballs, tennis rackets, yoga mats, running shoes, dumbbells and bicycles. The awarded sports equipment designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/sporting-goods
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/152895
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/152895
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!152895
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/344754
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shape Care Multifunctional Fitness Device
- Function
- Multifunctional Fitness Device
- Category
- Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sports
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gainsboro, Light Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- DaoDun Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yating Yang and Yaxin Li
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #152895
Credits
- Team
- Yating Yang, Yaxin Li, Qianhan Liu, Haoyu Zhao and Yunsong Liu
- Image Credits
- Designer Yating Yang, Shape Care, 2023.; Designer Yunsong Liu, Shape Care, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a fitness equipment that can meet the various fitness needs of home exercisers. It has three assembly forms, the user can use the original Shape Care as a barbell to do chest push exercise, by bending it can exercise the user's chest and legs. When disassembled into monomers, each monomer can be used as a dumbbell to exercise the arm, and when reassembled it can be used as an abdominal muscle wheel to exercise the abdominal muscles.
- Inspiration
- Due to the uncertainty of time, many people choose to exercise at home and buy more fitness equipment. Therefore, we want to design an integrated fitness machine for home exercisers to achieve the purpose of exercising more muscles. Shape Care is inspired by a multi-purpose, it has 3 assembly modes. They are used to exercise the abdomen, arms, legs and chest.
- Research
- We conducted interviews with users and observed their behaviors and concluded that users' home fitness is mainly based on hands, legs, abdomen and chest, so they will buy more fitness equipment and occupy more space. Therefore, we disassembled the existing fitness equipment and studied the shape and principle to achieve the purpose of integrating different equipment.In addition, we made a model and optimized the shape.
- Challenge
- The challenge of this design is the transformation of different forms, and the different combinations of forms must ensure the integrity of the shape. We studied the shape and principle of the existing fitness equipment and found that only the abdominal muscle wheel has a specific shape requirement. Therefore, based on the shape of the abdominal muscle wheel, we disassembled and reassembled the shape, and finally determined three forms to meet the user's real exercise needs of the hand, legs, abdomen, chest and other parts.
- Realization and Technology
- The main body of the round tube is cast by high quality iron, the surface of the tube is electroplated with baking paint technology. The part held by the hand is covered with rubber.
- Operation and Interaction
- Shape Care in its original state only needs to bend to exercise the chest. Without bending, it can be used as a barbell to push the chest. When the Shape Care is disassembled into units, each unit can be used as a dumbbell to exercise the arm. When one of the units is rotated 45 degrees and reassembled, it can be used as an ab wheel to exercise the abdominal muscles.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was launched in Beijing in January 2023 and completed in Beijing in March 2023.
- Specifications
- Width 535mm x Depth 45mm x Height 195mm
- Keywords
- Quick disassembly, Home fitness, Multi-functional, Molding body, Reassemble
