Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Goes to Little Kong Lamp by RUI Design & Above Lights
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes RUI Design & Above Lights of Above Lights for lighting products and fixtures design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Little Kong Lamp by RUI Design & Above Lights of Above Lights has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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.
About Little Kong Lamp
Little Kong is a series of ambient lamps that contains oriental philosophy. Oriental aesthetics pays great attention to the relationship between virtual and actual, full and empty. Hiding the LEDs subtly into the metal pole not only ensures the empty and purity of the lampshade but also distinguishes Kong from other lamps. Designers found out the feasible craft after more than 30 times experiments to present the light and various texture perfectly, which enables amazing lighting experience. The base supports wireless charging and has a USB port. It can be turned on or off just by waving hands.
About RUI Design & Above Lights
Mr. Guogang Peng, majored in Materials Science, founded Above Lights company in 2013. He has been engaged in product development and design. Mr. Peng is a person who strives for perfection. His work won the red dot award in 2019 and the IF award in 2020. He and his team are very concerned about the user experience and health. They found that there is few man-machine interaction products in Lighting products. Thus they enable products more interesting with interactive design. At the same time, they pay great attention to the health of users.
About Above Lights
Above Lights was established in 2013 in Shenzhen, China. ABOVE is committed to incorporating the foreword technology into the luminaires, digging out more possibilities for light, and beyond the light (Above Lights).
Award Record
This recognition makes RUI Design & Above Lights of Above Lights a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/98656
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/98656
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!98656
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/269700
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://abovelights.co/
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
- Little Kong Lamp
- Function
- Lamp
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Black, Dark Slate Blue, Dark Slate Gray and Teal
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- RUI Design & Above Lights
- Country
- China
- Brand
- Above Lights
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #98656
Credits
- Team
- He Qixing, Long Xiaotong, Pengguogang, Wang Yan, Zheng Hao and You Zhifu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Little Kong is a series of ambient lamps that contains oriental philosophy. Oriental aesthetics pays great attention to the relationship between virtual and actual, full and empty. Hiding the LEDs subtly into the metal pole not only ensures the empty and purity of the lampshade but also distinguishes Kong from other lamps. Designers found out the feasible craft after more than 30 times experiments to present the light and various texture perfectly, which enables amazing lighting experience. The base has a USB port and supports wireless charging also. Besides, it is easy to turn on or off the light by waving your hands on the top of the pole.
- Inspiration
- Inspired from oriental aesthetics which pays great attention to the relationship between virtual and real, ambience and penetration.In the past, desk lamps usually contain bulbs and lampshades. Kong's greatest feature is that it skillfully hides LED beads in metal brackets to ensure the Empty and Purity inside the lampshade. Must say the creative application of light guide plate(LGP) plays a crucial role in the design of Kong. Before, the LGP was mainly used in panel light, but this time, we adopted it creatively on table light, floor light and so on. Its semi-permeable effect is very subtly replace the traditional fabric or glass lampshade.
- Research
- The design research in the design process of Little Kong is mainly the exploration experiment of hot bending forming technology of light guide plate. In the past, light guide plate is basically used for panel lamp, without hot bending, and the hot bending of this specific form needs special design fixture, and easy to lead to high lmp shade defect rate.
- Challenge
- 1. Acrylic lampshade molding process 2. Trial production of nanometer light conducting materials 3. Infrared sensor sensitivity and noise suppression
- Realization and Technology
- Little Kong is with compact size and structure. The lampshade adopts advanced PC hot bending process, which needs very high precision requirement to make the shape well. Besides, the texture of the surface is a special paint to ensure uniform and smooth light-guide. The body part is made of aluminum alloy metal material, with surface spraying treatment. The minimal tolerances of AL allows for high precision.
- Operation and Interaction
- 1 ) Connect the power supply cable. 2 ) Turn the lamp on by hovering your hand over the lamp shade 3 ) Color temperature / Brightness · Use the color temperature key to choose one out of 5 light colors. · Use the brightness touch key to chose one out of 5 brightness levels. · Touch these two keys at the same time,and the light will turn off. · When the light is turn off,touch any of the two keys and the light turns on. 4 ) Wireless charging Place your wireless charge compatible phone onto the glass of the wireless charging pad to start charging your phone. 5 ) Charge a second device Plug a charging cable into the USB-charging port to charge a device.
- Project Duration and Location
- Little Kong project started on May, 2018, Shenzhen,China. It took almost 6 months from the design concepts to mold and another 6 months from mold completion to stable mass production. We took a series of Little Kong prototypes to extend Hong Kong Lighting Fair on Octorber,2018. It won great rave reviews. And then, the mass production was luanched again on Hong Kong Lighting Fari on October, 2019. It was a great success again. Till now, more than 10,000 pieces of Little Kong have been delivered to users and bring them great joy and convienience.
- Specifications
- Specifications Name: Little Kong Model: D160-W Weight: 880g Color: white Dimensions: (l, w, h in mm) 180*180*340 Packaging dimensions: (l, w, h in mm) 226*226*382 Color temperature range: 2650-5250K Luminous flux: 380lm Brightness range: 1%-100% Color rendering index: Ra>90 Input power: 24W (LED 7W / wireless charging 10W / USB 5W) Adapter rated parameters: 100-240V 50/60Hz Rated current: 1A Wireless charger: Mobile device compatible with Qi charging standard (Qi1.2.4 EPP compliant) Output voltage Max 9V Output current Max 1A USB output: 5V1A Service life: about 25,000 hours Package Content Lamp Power Supply Cable
- Keywords
- Light, table Light, Little Kong, Wireless Charger Light, ambient light, bedside lamp
