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Dan Popa Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Multifunctional Kids Chair in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
Dan Popa honored for baby, kids' and children's products design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category for Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Multifunctional Kids Chair by Dan Popa, designed for Leea Toys. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Multifunctional Kids Chair
Leoleo is a multifunctional play tower designed for small children. Leoleo consists of a limited number of parts that can be recombined without tools or keys. Different arrangements form an observation tower, an activity desk, a slide, a blackboard, a rocking chair or a high chair with a feeding table. Accessories such as activity boards, a wheel with handlebar and a small kitchen can be added. The parts are cut from 15 mm birch plywood and are lacquered or painted. Edges and corners are rounded for safety. Leoleo saves space and material by replacing several separate objects.
About Dan Popa
Dan Popa is an ambitious and creative enterpreneur and designer. He sees opportunities for improvement everywhere. Leea Toys company and the products he created were the natural result of his search for being a better parent. Ideas like early education, purposeful play, minimalistic design, responsible use of materials and resources, practical solutions to practical problems and a lot of playfullness, can be seen in all of his work.
Award Record
With this recognition, Dan Popa is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. The awarded baby products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/baby-products
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/105320
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/105320
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!105320
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/276950
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.leeastower.com/leoleo
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Multifunctional Kids Chair
- Function
- Multifunctional Kids Chair
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Burly Wood, Linen, Sandy Brown, Wheat and Tan
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Leea Toys
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Dan Popa
- Country
- Romania
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #105320
Credits
- Team
- Vlad Nicoara
- Image Credits
- Catalin Nastase, Photographer Cristtina Anculete, Photographer
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Leoleo is a hyper functional and playful piece of furniture designed for a small child's care, education, skills development and entertainment. It consists of parts that can be recombined in many ways, thus obtaining different functionalities. It can be an observation tower (learningtower), an activity desk, a slide/ramp, a blackboard, a rocking chair, a high chair with feeding table. Accessories can be added (activity boards, a wheel with handlebar, a kitchen). Leoleo saves space and material.
- Inspiration
- Leoleo was created by a father trying to solve the real problems that modern parenting faces: - to provide inspiration for parents in setting diverse educational activities for kids - to decrease the big number of physical objects needed for a limited period of time in order to entertain and educate a growing child - to keep kids away from screens - to make physical reality interesting again - to provide context for adult-child interaction and connection
- Research
- Research was done through observation, trials, feedback from users. Systematic research was made for years, by continuously modifying and adding features, functions, improving functionality, safety and ergonomy. The product was tested in real life situations for each and every step of development. This project is a challenge to accomplish more with less. Its philosophy originates from the following ideas: - everything in nature is made of atoms. But there are so few atoms comparing to the diversity of material expression of nature. So, with only a few types of building bricks, you can build an entire world. Everything depends on the relationship between the component parts.
- Challenge
- To create an object that is hyper-useful, but also aesthetic, safe, durable and relatively easy to produce. To limit its parts to only the essential by expanding its functions as much as possible.
- Realization and Technology
- I have used mainly 15mm thick Birch plywood, cut with CNC technology, laquered or painted. Design is created in Autocad. Some parts are hardwood.
- Operation and Interaction
- This object transforms by recombining its parts, re-assembling a finite number of parts. The user receives a number of plywood parts that are cut in such way that they can be assembled together in many ways. It requires a minimum innitial assembly to form a base structure. By adding or removing planks, wheels, boards, the base changes function. There is no need to use keys or any tools in the process.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2015 in Bucharest, Romania, and was exhibited in 2017 Romanian Design Award event, where it received recognition from Dezeen magazine.
- Specifications
- 98/40/40 in standing setup / tower setup, / baby chair setup 75/40/50 in rocking chair setup 98/70/40 in slide setup
- Keywords
- multifunctional, learning tower, slide, kids, toddlers, activity desk, high chair,
