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Lucky Plate Multifunctional Ware by JiaYi Cai Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
JiaYi Cai acknowledged for bakeware, tableware, drinkware and cookware design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design category for Lucky Plate Multifunctional Ware by JiaYi Cai, designed for Macau University of Science and Technology. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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.
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.
About Lucky Plate Multifunctional Ware
Lucky Plate is a set of ceramic dinner plates shaped like a four-leaf clover. The four-leaf clover form refers to hope, giving, love and happiness in Chinese tradition. Four grooves are placed on the rim of each plate. Two grooves hold the cutlery during the meal, and the other two are used to place the cutlery when the meal is over. The shaped edge also helps prevent sauce from dripping when food is removed. The plates are made in Jingdezhen from high temperature porcelain that is nontoxic and microwave safe.
About JiaYi Cai
JiaYi Cai is a master of Interior design at Macau University of Science and Technology.The original purpose of industrial design is to improve life and redesign some pain points in daily life. Therefore, it is necessary to talk about creativity on a practical basis. Any design that deviates from the practical principle will lead to metaphysical. But at the same time, "design is to reject mediocrity, otherwise it is reasonable for customers to find the structure directly." I hope to build a team of young designers with a flat management, a group of design mad. While striving to design beliefs, we must first be based on people. Choosing people is the first step.
Award Record
JiaYi Cai is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award
The A' Kitchenware Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good kitchenware designs by best kitchenware brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to kitchenware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and kitchenware brands from all countries. Entries typically include pots, pans, cutlery, plates, bowls and glasses. Awarded kitchenware designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/kitchenware
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/97713
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97713
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97713
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/174870
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.must.edu.mo/fa/ca
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lucky Plate Multifunctional Ware
- Function
- Multifunctional Ware
- Category
- Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Food & Hospitality
- Colors
- White Smoke, Sandy Brown, Gainsboro, Goldenrod and Dark Khaki
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Macau University of Science and Technology
The Recognition
- Laureate
- JiaYi Cai
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #97713
Credits
- Team
- JiaYi Cai is the main designer., Multidisciplinary Designer, Material Engineering Department at UBC and ShaoShi Yan is the instructor.
- Image Credits
- CAI JIAYI, 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In Chinese tradition,The concept of the lucky plate derives from the figure of “four-leaf clover” which means hope, giving, love and happiness. This is a set of exquisite four-leaf clover dinner plates, which are flexible and can be used in the modern food industry, to form a rich modeling. With this design, people no more need to worry about sauce dripping like traditional plates when we remove food from the plate.
- Inspiration
- The lucky plate is a set of plates that endow clover the meaning of luck, auspice and love. This innovative plate designs with emotions and a good taste. When you are at table, a simple and solid plate with food on its middle makes a delicate combined pattern, a gradation from deep to shallow. The luck plate itself also symbolizes the "gentleness" and "vitality". Through the simple design, the lucky plate reveals and amplifies the social significance of grouped dining behind the food culture.
- Research
- The research involved a creation of functional Decorative Items that affective and playful environment with functionality, practicality and aesthetically as an approach. This project is set to better inherit and promote traditional Chinese culture. kiln chambers, and glaze institutes are frequented.Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Rhino3D NURBS, etc.are used for preliminary design and modelling. And the structure is simple, the shape is reasonable, and it is suitable for daily life,which are flexible and can be used in the modern food industry, to form a rich modeling.
- Challenge
- During the process of firing, many problems such as deformation and cracking needed to be solved. Deformation and cracking affected the RQP in production which meant that it was very difficult to use white clay in the process of molding. Finally, the clay with higher hardness was selected as raw material to make this plate.
- Realization and Technology
- The production of this set of products was completed in Jingdezhen. Jingdezhen has a millennium of ceramic culture and history. The material is made of high temperature and environmental protection porcelain. It is safe, nontoxic, environmentally healthy and can be placed in microwave oven. It is made of high quality clay,repaired and bonded, the body of which is dry and glazed. Finally, the product is made by burning.It collects Jingdezhen ceramic culture and traditional Chinese aesthetics.
- Operation and Interaction
- This plate is designed to place cutlery in grooves after a meal. We usually put our cutlery on plate and desk when we enjoy our meal, which makes our hands or other exposed parts become dirty. Etiquette is used to encourage good table manners. It has four grooves located on the edge of plate. Two can stop the cutlery during the meal, while the other two are used to place the cutlery, which means the meal is over. These two sets of grooves have different usage when we use cutlery, which plays a important role in dining etiquette.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started in June, 2018 in Macao，and finished in September, 2018 in Jingdezhen, China. It has not been exhibited yet.
- Specifications
- 24.0cm wide 24.0cm high temperature 3.0cm high temperature environmental protection porcelain, processing process is material selection, billet, molding, glazing, burning.
- Keywords
- Ceramic tableware, product design, emotional design, function, aesthetics, White Cutlery
