Ston Aroma Inhaler by Eisuke Tachikawa Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Digital and Electronic Device Design

Eisuke Tachikawa honored for digital and electronic device design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Ston Aroma Inhaler by Eisuke Tachikawa, designed for Nosigner, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Digital and Electronic Device Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Silver A' Design Award

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

More About Ston Aroma Inhaler

Ston provides you a healthy and mindful break, as an alternative to smoking and drinking. Nosigner named the device Breather, as a reference to the unique mindful experience it provides. Although the structure is similar to an electronic cigarette, by adjusting the flow of air as well as other factors, you can experience something closer to a deep breath. This is the tool to change a harmful break with smoking cigarettes into a healthy one for mentally and physically.

About Eisuke Tachikawa

Eisuke Tachikawa is the head of NOSIGNER, a design firm aiming to create a hopeful future. He has worked on many projects tackling social issues, like climate change mitigation and adaptation, renewable energy, disaster prevention, community revitalization, and more. He advocates “Evolutional Creativity,” which tells the essence of creativity from the natural phenomenon of biological evolution, and this aims to foster innovators in various sectors of industry, academia, and government. This approach won him the prestigious Shichihei Yamamoto Prize, the leading academic award in humanities.

Award Record

This recognition makes Eisuke Tachikawa a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Digital and Electronic Device Design Award

The A' Consumer Electronics Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good consumer electronics designs by leading brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to consumer electronics designers, consumer electronics brands, consumer electronics manufacturers and electronic product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include smartphones, laptops, televisions, cameras, headphones and smartwatches. The awarded consumer electronics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/consumer-electronics

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/119435
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/119435
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!119435
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/134808

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Ston Aroma Inhaler
Function: Aroma Inhaler
Category: Digital and Electronic Device Design
Discipline: Industrial Design
Industry: Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Black, Dark Slate Gray, Teal and Dark Cyan
Images: 5
Client: Nosigner

The Recognition

Laureate: Eisuke Tachikawa
Country: Japan
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #119435

Credits

Team: NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa), NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa, Tomoro Hanzawa), NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa, Daichi Komatsu) and BREATHER Co., Ltd.
Image Credits: Product Photograph: CCDN (Yuichi Hisatsugu) Brand Image Photograph: BREATHER Co., Ltd.

Design Details

Unique Properties: “ston” provides you a healthy and mindful break, as an alternative to smoking and drinking. We named the device BREATHER, as a reference to the unique mindful experience it provides. Although the structure is similar to an electronic cigarette, by adjusting the flow of air as well as other factors, you can experience something closer to a deep breath. This is the tool to change a harmful break with smoking cigarettes into a healthy one for mentally and physically.
Inspiration: "ston" is a healthy inhalation device that allows you to inhale caffeine and GABA. The lighting pattern also helps regulate the rhythm of the breath. Similar to meditation in Zen or yoga, it helps the mind find balance and be calm, peacefully breathing in and out. Smoking is not only harmful to your body but also bad for the environment since you would have cigarette butts after you smoked it. “ston” offers a special experience that can never be had with a cigarette break.
Realization and Technology: We took so much time for the appearance of the product. “ston” is a stone-shaped, organically curved, stone-moulded device made of a one-piece aluminium enclosure thanks to a technique called metal squeezing. It is a unique and difficult technique that allows the aluminium to be squeezed to expand inward beyond 180 degrees, with no parting lines. This is all thanks to the high-level production control technology that Japan has developed.