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Alexander Polatai Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Obscuro GT Future of GT Retrovision in Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
Alexander Polatai recognized for vehicle, mobility and transportation 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 announced that Obscuro GT Future of GT Retrovision by Alexander Polatai, designed for Strenson Artworks, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
More About Obscuro GT Future of GT Retrovision
Obscuro is vision of how cars with naturally aspirated engines would look like. Due to rising popularity of electric cars and will of making fully self driving car it is supposed to have a significant change in automotive culture. For sure will be some examples of car identity recreation. But these cars will be not so affordable and will have more classic as for future design, at the present age, the same thing exists: expensive chronometers, which are still appreciated in the digital era.
About Alexander Polatai
A student designer whose main philosophy is philosophy of effectiveness. He solves problems and bands up people to create optimal and effective group for problem solution. Moreover, he has great communication skills and he is loyal for most of suggestions. He has a strong vision of esthetic world that he is going to realize.
Award Record
Alexander Polatai is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design Award
The A' Vehicle Design Award is an international vehicle design competition recognizing good vehicle designs by best vehicle designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to vehicle designers, mobility solution providers, transportation design studios and automotive engineers from all countries. Entries typically include cars, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, buses and trains. Awarded vehicle designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/vehicle
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/100190
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100190
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100190
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/267914
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.behance.net/strenson
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Obscuro GT Future of GT Retrovision
- Function
- Future of GT Retrovision
- Category
- Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Black, Dark Slate Blue and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Strenson Artworks
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alexander Polatai
- Country
- Ukraine
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100190
Credits
- Team
- Alexander Polatai - individual student designer
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Obscuro is vision of how cars with naturally aspirated engines would look like. Due to rising popularity of electric cars and will of making fully self driving car it is supposed to have a significant change in automotive culture. For sure will be some examples of car identity recreation in . But these cars will be not so affordable and will have more classic as for future design, in our life time same thing exist: expensive chronometers, which are still appreciated in the digital era.
- Inspiration
- Main inspiration was a classic gt coupe that has soul and strong aesthetics features, such as: Maserati A6GCS/53, Ferrari 250 gt, Jaguar E-type, Toyota 2000 GT, Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato. Secondary was modern GT coupe that will be classic for future, such as: AMG GT-R, Ferrari Roma, Aston Martin superleggera, Bentley GT, BMW M850i. Third is vision of future, currently we see it in creation of car with much dramatic shapes and volumes rather than line usage.
- Research
- Center of the project car itself. That is why Obscuro was based more on classic examples rather then on a modern one. This base of philosophy was used to save main idea of GT cars itself.
- Challenge
- The center of the project is the car itself. That's why Obscuro relied more on classic examples than modern ones. This philosophy was used to preserve the core idea of GT cars, namely the combination of luxury and high performance. Chrome elliments are sent to early motorsports, and the forms of these elements are referred to the silhouettes of those sports cars. The side lights are made small, since in the future cities will be much larger in area and much more illuminated. Therefore, the lights are transformed into exclusively silhouette forms, respectively, a neckline that encircles the front lights refers to cars of the past era, with bigger optics.
- Realization and Technology
- car supposed to have 60% of 3D printed parts. Main materials are: aluminum, forged carbon fiber, fiberglass, titanium, magnesium, bio-chemicals for batteries, leather, alcantara, glass.
- Operation and Interaction
- The interaction takes place in a classic way, no exotic operational doors or hinges are included in the design
- Project Duration and Location
- Project oriented on 2023-2029 production year, 2030 premier, 2033-2040 consumption years
- Specifications
- 4.3m - length 1.2m - heigh 1.7m - width
- Keywords
- car, gt, strenson, obscuro, sportcar, luxury
