Press Release
Cooffice Office Funiture Multifunctional Workstation by Long Chen Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Office and Business Appliances Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Long Chen for office and business appliances design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Cooffice Office Funiture Multifunctional Workstation by Long Chen, designed for Chenlong, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Office and Business Appliances Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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.
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 Cooffice Office Funiture Multifunctional Workstation
Cooffice is a multifunctional workstation designed for shared office spaces. The semi-enclosed desk uses movable panels that give each user a private area. The panels can be lowered when colleagues need to talk and work together. The work surface is height adjustable, from 30 to 48 inches, so the desk suits different tasks and postures. Materials include acoustic PET, rubberwood, steel and plastic. Cooffice aims to make office work more focused, while keeping communication between colleagues simple and flexible.
About Long Chen
Jackie is a person who is curious and interested in discovering fresh concepts. He is committed to creating fun surprises and make life awesome with his designs. Jackie thrives off of the refinement of his work and loves to work iteratively. He is now pursuing his Industrial design graduate degree in Artcenter college of design. He is committed to using systematic design thinking to bring the simplest design solutions and bring higher value to users' lives. He is committed to giving voice to the disadvantaged groups, hoping that the ultimate goal of his design can bring better solutions to the world.
Award Record
This recognition makes Long Chen a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Office and Business Appliances Design Award
The A' Office Appliance Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good office appliances by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to office appliance brands, office appliance designers, product designers and industrial design studios from all countries. Typical entries include printers, scanners, shredders, photocopiers, projectors and telephones. The awarded office appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/office-appliance
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/122893
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/122893
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!122893
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/297483
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.jackiechen.design/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cooffice Office Funiture Multifunctional Workstation
- Function
- Multifunctional Workstation
- Category
- Office and Business Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Product Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Business
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Dim Gray, Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Chenlong
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Long Chen
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #122893
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a project about the future of office communication and collaboration. When people come back to the office again in large numbers after a pandemic, they will be more eager for an optimized office working mode, and a more healthy, efficient, private, and safe working environment. Co-Office System is an integrated workstation that makes employees' work more immersive and efficient. It also enables privacy and communication between colleagues more flexible.
- Inspiration
- The semi enclosed desk design allows employees to have better privacy when working in the office. You don't have to worry about being disturbed in your work. A more immersive work environment improves employee productivity. Adjustable workstations increase the flexibility of work. Moreover, flexible adjustment can make communication and cooperation between employees easier.
- Research
- The background to the study is based on the post-COVID-19 era when people desire a more flexible office environment. Before the epidemic, people worked in their cubicles, but cluttered desktops and rigid work patterns often left them Mired in inefficiency. The studio of the future is expected to be intelligent, flexible, and secure, while also giving individual employees a space of independent work privacy. 55% of US workers say collaborating with others is harder when working from home. In the old office model, offices were always divided into functional blocks. How can we help them make the office module more dynamic so that employees feel productive?
- Challenge
- In this design, the most difficult point is that the production cost of this product may be relatively high. When considering the future market launch, it is necessary to consider the cooperation with high-performance computer manufacturers and cloud information service providers. In this way, a complete business ecosystem can be built to help transform the company and help employees become more productive.
- Realization and Technology
- Acoustic PET, Rubberwood, Steel, Plastic
- Operation and Interaction
- This is a design based on optimizing the future office system. The future of the office will be more collaborative and flexible. So we aim to help companies and employees create more productive work environments based on their experience. In the future, people can use mobile APP to book their office location according to whom they need to cooperate with within a day, to cooperate and communicate more flexibly. And the desk is designed in different states of use, to ensure that employees have different needs for their work. For example, when employees want to communicate with colleagues around them, they can put down their shields and communicate together.
- Project Duration and Location
- designed from 2020/9 to 2020/12 at artcenter college of design
- Specifications
- 60*30*(30 to 48) inches and 150 lbs weight
- Keywords
- Workstation, Office, Flexible Work, Productive,Office Design
