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Cozy Expandable Cat Travel Bag by Yun Li Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design
Yun Li acknowledged for pet care, toys, supplies and products for animals design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design category for Cozy Expandable Cat Travel Bag by Yun Li, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.,. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Cozy Expandable Cat Travel Bag
Cozy is an expandable travel bag designed for cats. The bag can be unfolded into a wall-mounted scratching board or a floor mat, which reduces the time the product stays unused. When closed, Cozy serves as a carrier for outings. When flat, the panel can be hung on a wall or pushed under a sofa. A ventilation window keeps the cat visible and safe. The inner surfaces use soft stretch fabric and sisal rope, while the frame uses hollow aluminium tubes and hollow wooden boards to reduce weight. The cushion is detachable for easy cleaning.
About Yun Li
China's emerging furniture designer-Ren Yu, he is an interesting furniture designer, loves life, and has always been passionate about new things. For Ren Yu, design is not an empty concept, let alone a popular element. It is an insight into rooted life. Expressing his own thinking through design; for design, in addition to form and function, he seeks the beauty of the text of the product, trying to create a dialogue with the user through the product.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yun Li is a winner of 44 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design Award
The A' Pet Care Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good pet supplies, toys and product designs by designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to pet care designers, animal toy designers, pet supply manufacturers and pet care brands from all countries. Typical entries include pet food, pet apparel, pet beds, feeding bowls, litter boxes and pet carriers. The awarded pet supply designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/pet-care
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/164670
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164670
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164670
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/294475
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cozy Expandable Cat Travel Bag
- Function
- Expandable Cat Travel Bag
- Category
- Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design
- Discipline
- Product Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Antique White, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.,
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yun Li
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164670
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Cozy is a multi-functional cat bag that solves the problem of leaving traditional cat bags unused and stored when not in use.The cat bag can be easily switched into both a cat bag and a cat scratching board (cat mat).The cat bag retains a visual ventilation window for cat safety.The cat cushion part is detachable design, users can change different materials according to the season, and convenient for daily cleaning.The Cat Pack is available in a variety of colourways for users to choose from.
- Inspiration
- Cat bags are a necessity for every cat owner, but the low usage rate makes them sit unused most of the time, causing waste and storage problems.Our goal is to design a multi-functional cat bag that can be used by cats on the go, and can also be a toy or cat bed for cats, reducing the amount of time the product sits unused.
- Research
- Our research with 500 cat owners found that 83 per cent of them are used to carrying a cat bag when taking their cat out, while only 12 per cent do not have this habit.This suggests that it is common for cats to carry their kits on the go, however, kits take up a lot of space and can be a problem to store when not in use.To address this challenge, we designed an expandable (multi-functional) cat carrier that can be unfolded to be used as a wall-mounted cat scratching board or cat mat when the carrier is not in use, and a flat surface that reduces storage space.
- Challenge
- The stretch properties of the fabric were one of the biggest challenges in the concept,Switching between the two states requires the fabric to have excellent stretch properties, and the current solution is to incorporate an elasticated cord at the top to give it excellent overall stretch properties.
- Realization and Technology
- Cozy's production process focuses on the comfort of cats.The inner part of the bag that comes into contact with the cat is made of soft stretch fabric and sisal rope to minimise the threat of the material to the safety of the cat.At the same time, these materials ensure that the cat pack can switch states easily.The outer frame is made of hollow aluminium tubes and hollow wooden boards, which enables the cat bag to reduce its weight.The cat pad section uses Velcro to make the pad easy to change and clean.
- Operation and Interaction
- Cozy is easy to use. When closed, it can be used as a cat outing bag, and when unfolded, it can be used as a wall-mounted cat scratching board or cat mat.When you need to store it away, you can easily push it under the sofa or hang it on the wall. Flexible conversion adds fun for families and cats.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in March 2024 and completed in Shenzhen in August 2024.
- Specifications
- Standard Product Dimensions:Width 460 mm x Depth 350 mm x Height 430 mm Product Unfolded Dimensions:Width 870 mm x Depth 460 mm x Height 25 mm
- Keywords
- Cat Outing Bag, Expandable, Multifunctional
