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COMO, Italy, April 14, 2018 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Faith Standing lamp by Attila Stromajer, designed for Stroo Design, Attila Stromajer, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2017 - 2018 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
Regarding Faith Standing lamp
This lamp creates the ambiance for contemplation and symbolizes the significance of faith modified to suit modern time. People need stability and calmness in ever changing fast-paced and information-packed world. This lamp was made of ash wood, the bottom is stainless steel. It has three LED circuits, what you can set separately by a remote control. The diversely adjustable illuminants give many options for altering the lights expanding the mode of action from soft mood to full illumination. It can be placed on the wall with a console.
About Attila Stromajer
The man behind Stroo Design is also a full-time psychologist. Among other things, his works are inspired by this profession. He is working on getting people to discover feelings they had been unable to have before. He tries to help them find their balance and joy. As a designer, his aim is the same, although he reaches it by using materialized tools. With everything he makes he would like to add to our harmony and enrich our world. Through his designs he wants to generate feelings, thoughts and enhance people’s world.
Award Record
This recognition makes Attila Stromajer a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2017 - 2018 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/59437
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/59437
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!59437
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/168697
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.stroodesign.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Faith Standing lamp
- Function
- Standing lamp
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Stroo Design, Attila Stromajer
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Attila Stromajer
- Country
- Hungary
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2017 - 2018
- Design ID
- #59437
Credits
- Team
- designer, concept consultant and constructor, executor, technical advisor
- Image Credits
- All uploaded photos: ASM Foto: Norbert Szilas, Marcell Mizik (Hungary, 2017) Some of the photos from PDF: Imre Szalai (Hungary, 2017) Video: Imre Szalai (Hungary, 2017) Video music: Part of the song of Road Less Travelled by Jonny Easton
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This lamp can be used as a standing and ambiant lamp, as a reading lamp, or it can be placed on the wall too with a console. This lamp creates the ambiance for contemplation and symbolizes the significance of faith modified to suit our modern time. The diversely adjustable illuminants give many options for altering the lights expanding the mode of action from soft mood to full illumination.
- Inspiration
- This lamp was inspired by the universal need of mankind to believe in something. No matter which culture we look at we will find that need to believe in ourselves, in transcendence or in a religious concept. Nowadays, we are longing more and more to hold onto something stable and eternal in our ever changing fast-paced and information-packed world. Our lamp symbolizes this need with statue-like shape from this idea. It resembles the early symbol of turning upwards.
- Research
- I started out by using organic forms that are built up of layers like onion. I transformed these into geometric forms, multiplied and rotated them. I wanted to symbolize that we are all embedded in some bigger unity. As a psychologists we studied the findings on faith, beliefs, metacommunication and sacred objects used in homes.
- Challenge
- We were dedicated to create a piece that does not segregate people by the institutionalized forms of faith. By concentrating on the universal need of mankind to believe in something, we wanted to find the common parts, the parts that bind us together on the level of society. It was challenging to focus on the universality of this basic need for faith instead of turning to specific religions.
- Realization and Technology
- This lamp was made of ash wood, the bottom is stainless steel. Natural varnish was applied on the surface, which gives the structure lightness and balances the stability and rigidness of the angular forms. The natural finish, the size, the adjustable illumination and the shape of turning upwards may remind the feeling of intimateness while bringing traits of modernity and functionality to the project.
- Operation and Interaction
- The multiplied pieces symbolizes that we are all pointing towards unity. It also suggests that we build our own system of belief from our own experience. The hole inside shows that the essence of this faith is unique for everybody. We need to fill it with meaning. In the middle we find emptiness and stillness which help us reach a meditative state. The metal bottom multiplies the visual experience and shows that our faith is reflected in all our actions and that we are also reflected in it.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2015 in Hungary and finished in August 2017 in Hungary
- Specifications
- This lamp has three hidden LED circuits: outside, inside and bottom. Wiring these was a huge challenge technically. You can switch and set the LEDs separately or together and the light intensity too by a remote control. That provides extraordinary variation options for adjusting the lights, thus expanding the mode of action from soft mood lighting to full illumination. By the fan-like rotation of the parts it provides a new visual experience from every different angle. Size: 1800 x 850 x 420 mm
- Keywords
- Faith, culture, religion, universal need of faith, transcendence, sacred symbols, stability, eternal, fast-paced, information-packed, statue-like shape, praying hands.
