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Alexey Danilin Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Misterio Luminaires in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Alexey Danilin for lighting products and fixtures design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Misterio Luminaires by Alexey Danilin, designed for Maytoni, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 Silver A' Design Award
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 Misterio Luminaires
Misterio is a lighting collection of pendant lamps and wall lamps inspired by the northern lights. The main elements are made of cast glass with a multicolor effect and are shaped like waves frozen in glass. The glass creates colored highlights that form organic patterns on nearby surfaces. A black metal base in the form of a ring holds an LED strip covered with a matte diffuser. The ring is directed inward, so the lighting is soft and the beauty of the glass is emphasized. The collection can be used for main lighting, task lighting or accent lighting.
About Alexey Danilin
Born in 1987. Graduated from university with a degree in fine arts. Started working in 2010 as an interior designer for French decorator Vanina Boudet. Later continued my career as an event designer and decorator. The designer's New Year decorations were published in the book "Holiday Design - FESTIVE&JOYFUL" by Send Points publishing house. Later Alexey tried himself as a contemporary artist. He exhibited his works at the Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art with the installation "Futuristic Cross", which then decorated the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. He designed the Shell sofa transformer, for which he won his first Red Dot award.
Award Record
With this recognition, Alexey Danilin is a winner of 14 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. The awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
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/169866
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/169866
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!169866
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/297371
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Misterio Luminaires
- Function
- Luminaires
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Gray, Gray, Rosy Brown and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Maytoni
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alexey Danilin
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #169866
Credits
- Team
- Alexey Danilin, Product manager: Anastasia Orlova, Brand Director Natalia Danilova, Brand manager Valeria Putz, Art Director Kristina Bushueva, Photographer Pavel Dunaev.
- Image Credits
- Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024; Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Misterio collection is a magical symbiosis of light, colour and shape inspired by the Northern Lights. The main elements are made of glass with multi-color coloring. These shapes are like sea waves frozen in glass, which create a mesmerizing game of glare and change with every glance. A fresh solution with a ring element pointing inward provides soft lighting, emphasizes the beauty of the glass, creating picturesque light ornaments on the surrounding surfaces.
- Inspiration
- Misterio models are magical portals that can transform any space, filling it with mysterious light and atmosphere. The inspiration for them was the northern lights, which the shamans of the northern peoples considered a manifestation of supernatural forces. For example, the Yakuts, the indigenous people of Siberia, believed that the Northern Lights were a manifestation of the powerful spirits of nature.
- Research
- An important part of the study was working with glass. Cast glass of such a complex wave shape cannot be made without a seam in the middle. Therefore, it was decided to make it from two halves, and in the middle use a metal ring with LED tape. Also, an important part was the study of the properties of light, since the ring shines inward, it was important to calculate the power of the LED strip so that the lamp creates a lot of light.
- Challenge
- The collection was inspired by the Northern Lights, so an important part of the work was finding the shape and technology to create such a vibrant and colorful light effect. The northern lights are an astronomical phenomenon, so it was decided to use the shape of the sphere, which is a symbol of celestial bodies, and to create a light effect, various techniques for working with glass were studied, and different forms of glass were studied to find out which shapes create the most interesting glare on neighboring planes. All this knowledge was obtained through a long search in a variety of sources.
- Realization and Technology
- The models are made of cast glass with a smooth shape. Transparent glass is created with Multicolor effect. Thanks to this, color highlights are created on the glass and on the neighboring walls in the form of an interesting organic pattern. The metal base of the lamp is created in the form of a ring. Inside is an LED tape covered with a matte diffuser for soft lighting.
- Operation and Interaction
- The luminaries of the collection create a significant luminous flux, so the models can be used in the standard way in the interior. Suspended lamps can be installed as main lighting or additional lighting for the workplace and for the recreation area. Moreover, since the models create bright highlights around them, they can be used for accent lighting in the interior.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2023 in Moscow and finished in January 2024 in Moscow, and was exhibited in Interlight in September 2024.
- Specifications
- Product type: pendant lamp and wall lamp, fittingr: black metal, color temperature: 2700 К, IP protection: IP 20, dimmable: yes, scattering: angle 120 °, voltage: AC 220-240 V, power: 6 W, light flux: 650 lm.
- Keywords
- alexey danilin, maytoni, pendant lamp, design, lighting, lamp, misterio, product, wall lamp, light
