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The Bird from Paradise Wooden Sculpture by Mohamadali Vadood Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design

Mohamadali Vadood recognized for cultural heritage and culture industry design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category for The Bird from Paradise Wooden Sculpture by Mohamadali Vadood. The award was conferred within the 2018 - 2019 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.

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 The Bird from Paradise Wooden Sculpture

The Bird from Paradise is a wooden sculpture shaped as a bird. The sculpture brings together seven traditional Iranian arts, including Muqarnas, marquetry, wood carving and wood turning. A new method called Leveling Muqarnas was developed for the work, placing carved layers of different thickness instead of small repeated pieces. The lower body uses the new method, while the crown follows the traditional one. The natural colors of jujube, boxwood, rosewood and other woods are left unpainted. The eyes are made from a single seashell from the Persian Gulf.

About Mohamadali Vadood

Mohamadali Vadood, a life-long artist and also a designer who works in the field of wooden arts and his works include wooden sculpting, carving and marquatry. As an art instructor, he has always done his best to help his students think creatively. As an artist, reviving old forms of art from ancient Persia has been something that he highly regards with respect and enthusiasm, especially when it goes to old Iranian wood carving and its design.

Award Record

With this recognition, Mohamadali Vadood is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award

The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Typical entries include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. The awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/cultural-heritage

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
The Bird from Paradise Wooden Sculpture
Function
Wooden Sculpture
Category
Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Arts and Social Impact
Colors
Rosy Brown, Tan, Dark Slate Gray, Saddle Brown and Wheat
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Mohamadali Vadood
Country
Iran
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2018 - 2019
Design ID
#62217

Credits

Team
Mr Mohamadali Vadood and Ms Shadi Habib

Design Details

Unique Properties
Among the all the arts, a specific attention is paid to Muqarnas. This amazingly beautiful art was mostly used for the architectural designs and is being created by putting together repetitive and arranged pieces to create geometric designs. Due to difficulty in application and limitation in design, which caused repetitive forms, Muqarnas is being extinct. To create a new application for Muqarnas, an innovative method was required to exploit Muqarnas out of the symmetry and repetition of geometric limitation. For this purpose I invented a innovative method that I call “Leveling Muqarnas”.
Inspiration
God resurrected 3 chopped and mixed birds, which were located on the summit of 3 different mountains, so Abraham can witness the resurrection. The story of Abraham inspired me to believe, art as a divine phenomenon can recreate by putting together pieces of dead wood via different arts. To make this happen, I put together 7 different arts like sculpturing, Muqarnas, Marquetry (Moaraq), Munabat, etc. along with wood from Jujube, Haloxylon, boxwood, Robinia, rosewood, etc.
Research
All the steps have been taken with the benefit of the members' artistic knowledge and experience.
Realization and Technology
Muqarnas, wood carving, traditional Iranian wood carving-grating, Iranian marquetry, wood turning, sculpting, and Iranian marquetry-carving are the arts which came together for performing this work so that the basic idea could be better visualised as a design. Materials: Various woods, including Jujube, Millettia laurentii, Buxus, Rosewood, Haloxylon and Robinia plus the natural seashells from Persian Gulf.
Operation and Interaction
This design is basically a still sculpture and can not be transformed into anything else. First, the idea for designing this piece is based on the best bird figure that can face the constraints of performing while doing all muqarnas, sculptures, decorations and other works on it. So, this work is more or less based on the capabilities of the fields of art which were used to perform it and could all together come next to each other. In order to separate different fields in the performance, the components are carrying various natural colours of different woods as if they reflect a rainbow of colours which have been assembled as the parts of the bird's body.
Keywords
Art,Traditional art,sculpture,design, Artistic woodwn work,wooden art,woodwn work,Muqarnas,Wood craving,

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