Acacia Apo Pepeiao by Jingcheng Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Lei a me Kahiko Competition Category.

KalaLei Kahiko· 2023

Acacia Apo Pepeiao

by Jingcheng Wu

Client: Wu High Jewelry

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Lei Kahiko Category

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The Design

About Acacia Apo Pepeiao

Ua hauʻoli ka mea hoʻolālā i ke ʻano geometrical o kahi hua i hāʻawi ʻia iā ia e kāna kaikamahine a hoʻomaka ʻo ia i ka hoʻolālā. Ma keʻano,ʻaʻohe mea i piha a ua piha nā mea a pau i ka manaʻo mua e hiki ai i kekahi ke noʻonoʻo keʻike kekahi i kēia mau apo pepeiao. ʻO ke apo he ʻano maʻalahi a nani, a ʻo nā pōhaku makamae ua like ia me ka hua e puka mai ana mai ka lepo mai, e hoʻoluliluli ana no kou nānā ʻana. He mea kūʻokoʻa loa ia, ke ʻano, a me nā mea nani.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Acacia Apo Pepeiao i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Acacia Apo Pepeiao he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Acacia Apo Pepeiao e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: the complicated surface of this earring gives an whole new look of how earrings can be. Instead of front and back look of an earring, it is beautiful in multiple ways to look at. clasp is melted inside the structure, so the design has no compromise, to achieve this we designed a whole new clasp, and the weight must be perfectly balanced.
Dimensions & Packaging: width 30mm x depth 21.2mm x height 32.2mm
Tags: gold earrings, creative earrings, designers earrings, gold earrings, acacia
Production Technology: Wax carving, lost-wax casting, goldsmith, stone-setting, gold-plating. Using material, yellow gold, titanium, Rubellite, Citrine, Tourmaline.
Design Challenge: Throughout the process of making this earring, the hardest part was where should the clasp been placed, and how to make it invisible, also comfortable, at this period a lot of tryouts must be done, and broke two pieces in experiment. As finally been accomplished, this part was added various small details and small components inside the earring. Another part was finding the balance of the earring, as can be seen from the special form, it's not a tradition kind of earring, so finding the perfect balancing both visually and comfortably was a hard part. The team tried lots of times and many adjustments to accomplish.
Research: Research from the observation of nature.
Inspiration: It started as a seed fallen down from a tree. The name is called Acacia, designer's daughter found the seed and showed to designer. He looked at the seed carefully, fascinated by its complicate shape and decided to transform it into an earring.
Project Duration: The project started in December 2020 and finished in July 2021 in Shenzhen.
Operation Flow: There's a hidden hinge on the part off the earring, when open the earring, just simply pull the back part of the earring, and the hinge will open, when putting to your ears, just push the back part, when hearing a "tick" sound, which means is complete locked.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yue Cai, 2021.
Image #2: Photographer Yue Cai, 2021.
Image #3: Photographer Yue Cai, 2021.
Image #4: Photographer Yue Cai, 2021.
Image #5: Photographer Yue Cai, 2021.