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V5 Series Oled TV by Konka Industrial Design Team Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Digital and Electronic Device Design

Konka Industrial Design Team acknowledged 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/ V5 Series Oled TV by Konka Industrial Design Team, designed for Konka, has been granted the Bronze 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 reached 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.

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.

About V5 Series Oled TV

V5 Series is an OLED television designed for modern living spaces. The borderless screen is only 2.9 millimeters thin and shows high resolution images. Dual channel bionic acoustics add surround sound for an immersive audio-visual experience. Pure lines, a geometric lattice pattern on the back shell and a flat metal stand create a minimalist appearance. The far-field voice unit, the infrared module and the switch are placed in a cylindrical dock below the screen, so the television is controlled by voice and by a touch remote control.

Award Record

With this recognition, Konka Industrial Design Team is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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. The competition 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. Entries typically include smartphones, laptops, televisions, cameras, headphones and smartwatches. Awarded consumer electronics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/consumer-electronics

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
V5 Series Oled TV
Function
Oled TV
Category
Digital and Electronic Device Design
Discipline
Industrial Design
Industry
Electronics & Appliances
Colors
Black, Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Gray and White Smoke
Images
5
Client
Konka

The Recognition

Laureate
Konka Industrial Design Team
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2020 - 2021
Design ID
#120736

Credits

Team
Xiaomin Huang, Liang Li, Qiang Li, Yong Jin and Xiaozhen Chen
Image Credits
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyright © 1980-2021 KONKA.

Design Details

Unique Properties
V5 Series Oled TV adopts the only 2.9mm extremely slim borderless screen design, high resolution and excellent OLED image quality, with dual channel bionic acoustics and surging surround sound effect to create an immersive audio-visual experience for users. Pure line frame design, geometric lattice element back shell and super metal flat simple stand design,create a minimalist pure design style which makes TV products integrate into modern living space.
Inspiration
The design inspiration comes from the modern urban environment of steelandconcrete,and the increasingly simplified home atmosphere of urban people. Aiming at creating modern and simple TV products.Through the pure line structure, the design of geometric lattice elements, and the presentation of flat super metal texture, the TV products can better integrate into the modern living space.
Research
With the development of color TV industry and the update of science and technology, the appearance of TV that consumers pursue also changes. Through the analysis, the user needs mainly include: ultra-thin high-quality screen quality and smart smooth use experience. The conclusion is to abandon redundant and cumbersome design elements and keep users' complete and pure audio-visual experience. Through the intelligent and convenient AI voice and touch remote control interaction mode, to ensure the best user experience.
Challenge
The ultra-thin backplane needs to ensure product strength while showing excellent image quality. This is the biggest highlight and challenge of the entire design. In order to make the whole machine pure, the far-field voice highly integrates the intelligent hardware and operation interaction, and the internal hardware is closely interlaced to form a sophisticated intelligent expansion dock.
Realization and Technology
V5 Series Oled TV combines environmental protection and energy saving with CMF design. The ultra-thin steel-plastic back panel adopts a large-area environmentally friendly roll coating process. The dark color is up and down with starry pearl powder. The exquisite look and feel highlights the product's high quality and sense of technology.Metal plate base, delicate horizontal slender drawing pattern brings super metallic feeling.The back shell diamond grid dark lines, using the straight plastic etching process, echoes the language of the whole machine.
Operation and Interaction
The whole machine adopts ultra-thin OLED screen. In order to maintain the user's complete and pure visual experience, the far-field voice, infrared module and switch are integrated into the cylindrical expansion dock under the screen. Through AI voice and touch remote control to complete all daily control, even when the external noise reaches 75db, the voice AI wake-up rate is still as high as 95%. Make sure that you can bring smooth and intelligent experience to users.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in September 2020 in Shenzhen and finished in December 2020 in Shenzhen.
Specifications
1226.4mm x248.8mm x761.8mm
Keywords
oled, ultra slim screen, frameless, ultra HD, scottish plaid element, modern minimalism

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