Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya by Mana Khaloo

Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya by Mana Khaloo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe in Kayan Ado Competition Category.

Baƙin ƘarfeKayan Ado· 2023

Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya

by Mana Khaloo

Client: Anabell Jewelry

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe Winner in Kayan Ado Category

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The Design

About Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya

Rubutun Littafi: Mai Rikodin Kwanan Wata na Lotus abin rataya ne wanda ke rikodin wata kwanan wata ta musamman. Zanen yana ɗauke da ƙananan furanni 31 don kwanaki da siffofin marquise 12 don watanni. Wata alama ta zinariya a kan fure ɗaya da kuma marquise ɗaya na nuna kwanan watan da aka zaɓa, wanda ake karantawa a hanyar agogo. Abin rataya an dalaye shi da zinari mai launin ruwan hoda kuma girmansa ya kai milimita 50 zuwa 50 zuwa 2.5. Siffar ta samo asali ne daga tsarin 'yan kunne daga Daular Achaemenid, wanda aka gina bisa furen lotus da aka sassaka a bango a Persepolis. Furen lotus alama ce ta rashin mutuwa kuma yana wakiltar rana da kuma watanni goma sha biyu na shekara.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe

Zanen Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe, wata karramawa mai daraja da ake bai wa kyawawan zane-zane waɗanda ke cika buƙatun ƙwararru da masana'antu da ake tsammani daga ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire da aka tsara da kyau. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Baƙin Ƙarfe suna nuna babban ƙwarewa, ƙwarewa ta musamman, fahimtar ƙwararru da ikon ƙirƙira na masu ƙirƙirar su. Ana sa ran zanen Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya ya zama ƙirƙira da ake girmamawa sosai, ake sha'awa da ƙauna wacce ke da amfani kuma mai sababbin abubuwa. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe yana haɗa mafi kyawun ayyukan fannin kuma yana da halayen fasaha masu cancanta da ke da alaƙa da sanin yadda da baiwa. Ana girmama zanen Lotus Date Recorder Aikin Farko: Abin Rataya saboda cikakkiyar kulawarsa kuma an tsara shi don ba da ingantuwar rayuwa da ke taimakawa wajen mai da duniya wuri mafi kyau.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Lotus collection is rare since it records special dates. All the collection's necklaces are similar in their basic form, but they are unique, as they each show a specific date. There are 31 small petals as the days, and 12 marquises to indicate the months. You will be gifted by your own date keeper. A gold marking on the picked petal and marquise corresponds to show the desired date. The date is read clockwise. The recorded date on the pendant shown as the main image is Oct 7th (My Birthday).
Dimensions & Packaging: This gold pendant is rose gold plated in dimension of : length 50 mm x Width 50 mm x Height 2.5mm. The gold piece of jewelry weighs 20 grams, including 30 petal-shaped gems and 11 emerald marquise gems in the size of 8 mm.
Tags: jewelry, date recorder, calendar, pendant, design, lotus, achaemenid, culture, interaction
Production Technology: Pencil sketches,Adobe Illustrator,3D Modeling
Design Challenge: Rearranging the petals in a way to correspond to the number of days and months while keeping the original form of the Achaemenid lotus earrings was challenging , deciding on what colors could be felt more as real lotus flower while representing the Iranian nobility was another challenge.
Research: Spending a long time to find the conceptual aspect and symbolic meaning of the twelve-petaled rosette, it was decided to rearrange the petals in Achaemenid earrings the way that represent the 31 days of a month, and the 12 months of a year in order to be able to record the date of a special event.
Inspiration: The matchless pendant is inspired by the set of earrings from the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, that is now being exhibited in the Louver museum. The shape of these earrings is taken from the twelve-petaled rosette, based on the lotus flower that is engraved on almost all walls in Persepolis. This flower was the symbol of immortality and perpetual beneficence, and also embodies the sun and the twelve months of the year. That had been held by an emperor, as a sign of peace and union and a symbol of Anahita, the goddess of water and wisdom in the ancient Persian empire.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 in Shiraz/Iran. The first production of the collection in silver was exhibited in Mehregan Exhibition, Tehran/Iran in Oct 2019.
Operation Flow: I personally believe an intelligent design is about creating an art that stays in mind. Having a magnificent symbolic background, the lotus pendant tells a meaningful story of time.
Image Credits: Image #1: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
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