Press Release
Feel Ordinary Life Aromatic Candles by Chunyang Wang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Giftware Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Chunyang Wang for giftware design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Feel Ordinary Life Aromatic Candles by Chunyang Wang, designed for Yepspace, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Giftware Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Feel Ordinary Life Aromatic Candles
Feel Ordinary Life is a set of scented candles shaped like ginger, garlic and scallions, three common ingredients of Chinese cooking. The candles are handmade and moulded to copy the natural form of each plant. Each candle holds its own blend of essential oils. The ginger candle carries floral and fruity notes, while the scallion candle carries woody and floral notes. The asymmetrical shapes make every candle burn in a different way as the wax melts. The design links familiar kitchen forms with a refined scent experience.
Award Record
This recognition makes Chunyang Wang a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2022 - 2023 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Giftware Design Award
The A' Giftware Design Award is an international gift design competition recognizing good gift designs by leading brands, manufacturers and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to giftware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and giftware brands from all countries. Typical entries include candles, figurines, picture frames, decorative plates, ornaments and souvenirs. The awarded gift designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/giftware
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/167413
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167413
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167413
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/157763
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
- Feel Ordinary Life Aromatic Candles
- Function
- Aromatic Candles
- Category
- Giftware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Slate Blue, Gainsboro, Light Gray, Silver and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yepspace
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chunyang Wang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167413
Credits
- Team
- Qianqian Yao
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Inspired by the ubiquitous ingredients of Chinese cuisine, ginger, garlic, and scallions, this scented candle reimagines these familiar forms into a unique and artistic olfactory experience. By blending traditional Chinese culture with contemporary design, we have created a product that offers a feast for both the eyes and the nose. For example, the ginger-shaped candle features a blend of floral and fruity notes, while the scallion-shaped candle offers a woody and floral combination.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the everyday habits of Chinese people, this product offers a surprising twist on the familiar. By transforming the pungent ingredients of ginger, garlic, and scallions into elegant candles, we create a stark contrast between the expected and the unexpected. This unexpected juxtaposition of form and function is designed to spark curiosity and delight.
- Challenge
- The mold-making process is very difficult, requiring absolute precision to ensure a natural, vivid, and lifelike reproduction of the plant's form
- Realization and Technology
- The handmade candles are meticulously crafted to replicate the exact shape of ginger, garlic, and scallions. Each candle is infused with a unique blend of essential oils, carefully curated to capture the essence of these culinary staples. The ginger candle features top notes of aldehydes, pear, and lily-of-the-valley, middle notes of iris, rose, and orange, and base notes of musk, patchouli, and abelmoschus. The garlic candle opens with a fresh blend of coriander, lavender, and white pine, followed by a spicy heart of nutmeg, pepper, and hemlock, and a woody base of iris, musk, and cedarwood.
- Operation and Interaction
- Due to the asymmetrical shapes of the ginger, garlic, and scallion, each candle burns uniquely, constantly evolving as the wax melts. Every lighting is a surprising work of art.
- Project Duration and Location
- This limited-edition gift is exclusively available at Tsutaya Books, OoEli, Hangzhou from April 2023 to April 2024.
- Specifications
- 124mm*320mm*83mm. net quantity：200g. Craft: Hot stamping in white, hot stamping in silver, pearl cotton, 300gsm special paper, die-cutting, gray card.
- Keywords
- ginger garlic and scallions, Aromatic, Candles,
