Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Goes to Lexilight Reading Lamp by PAD Design Studio
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes PAD Design Studio of Pad for lighting products and fixtures design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Lexilight Reading Lamp by PAD Design Studio of Pad, designed for Lexilife, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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 assessed 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 Lexilight Reading Lamp
Lexilight is a reading lamp designed to support people with dyslexia. The lamp combines pulsed and modulated light, which erases the mirror image that a dyslexic reader can perceive. Reading becomes easier, faster and longer without eye strain. A main button switches between the Lexilight mode and normal light, and two potentiometers adjust the pulsation and modulation for each user. The head is made of ABS with a metal paint finish, the diffuser of PMMA and the foot of Zamac. The form recalls a caring friend bent over the book, as a parent would be.
About PAD Design Studio
PAD is a French design studio based next to Paris. Founded in 2018 by two high school friends, Philippe ARNAUD & Alexandre BERNELIN, the studio’s credo is: a seamless user experience is built from the first design sketch to the point of sale. Following this philosophy, PAD proposes a one stop shop experience to its clients. PAD does industrial design, develops, and produces its client’s products. This approach of design business mixed with great in-house talents, gives PAD a quite unique space in the design studio ecosystem. “The best way to demonstrate our work quality is to take industrial risks side by side with our client” says founders.
About Pad
PAD is a global design agency orchestrating the launch of products and services, from the first design stages, to production monitoring, and marketing.
Award Record
This recognition makes PAD Design Studio of Pad 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/106078
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106078
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106078
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/278764
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.padesign.fr
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
- Lexilight Reading Lamp
- Function
- Reading Lamp
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Dark Slate Blue, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Slate Gray and Midnight Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lexilife
The Recognition
- Laureate
- PAD Design Studio
- Country
- France
- Brand
- Pad
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106078
Credits
- Team
- Philippe ARNAUD, Alexandre BERNELIN and Quentin BOUTZ
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Lexilight, which combines both pulsed and modulated light, erases the mirror picture that a dyslexic person sees. This person is now able to read easier, faster and longer without eye strain. The strength of this design is what designers call the acceptance effect. Dyslexia is a handicap people use to hide, so designers make this lamp a desirable object for children, teenagers and adults. When children see it as a little figure, teenagers see a stylish lamp and adults, a nice piece of art and product design.
- Inspiration
- Lexilight is a reading lamp, so it has been design to look like a benevolent little friend which stands up on the desk bent over the book, like parents could do when they teach how to read to their kids. The lamp foot edges/lines have neither a start or an end point, as a metaphor of what reading is: a never ending story.
- Research
- At first, we decided that more than helping dyslexic children to read, we would like to give them the Will to read. So we focus on when and were kids like to read, and make some design proposals according to. Then we present each concept to children from a school next to our studio and discussed with them on how to improve it. After few weeks the table lamp concept was finalized. Then we make prototypes and we launch a 100 users test. We included remarks about ergonomic, style, colors into the final version which has been tested by 120 children over France during 2 months and validated by them and their parents.
- Challenge
- The hardest part was to make that lamp desirable for children between 6-10 years but also for teanagers and adults. It was a very difficult to build a design language which could fit a school ecosystem and also a business office or a teenager bedroom.
- Realization and Technology
- Lexilight head is made of ABS with metal painting finishing. Light diffusor is injected in PMMA. The foot is made with ZAMAC and is anodized in a post process. The full lamp is assembled in France in a factory in which 100% of worker are handicaped people.
- Operation and Interaction
- Lexilght is a reading lamp which can be used at home, school or office, wherever people need to read. As many kids need it, Lexilight is delivered with a transport bag which allows them to bring it from home to school each days. When Lamp is installed user have to push on the main button to choose between 2 modes: Lexilight mode or normal light. Two potentiometers allow the user to adjust the light wave by acting on the pulsation and modulation to adapt to each individual.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project starts in Paris (France) on November 2018 and finished in Saint Malo (France) in October 2019.
- Specifications
- Widht 270 mm x Depth 185 mm x Height 300 mm
- Keywords
- lighting, reading lamp, dyslexia, lexilight, PAD, table lamp, made in France
