Press Release
Light Scars Sheers by Ruth Bachrach Receives the A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Ruth Bachrach recognized for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Light Scars Sheers by Ruth Bachrach has been granted the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Light Scars Sheers
Light Scars is a set of sheer curtains made from laser cut polyester fabric. The text is cut with a specially designed font that keeps the letters easy to read while the fabric remains strong. As sunlight passes through the curtains, the words are projected into the room and move through the day and the seasons. Fonts are available in English, Hebrew, Arabic and Japanese. Customers can request a personal version or choose their own text through a product on demand platform. The fabric is light, resistant to ultraviolet light, washable and can be ironed.
About Ruth Bachrach
All my works are altar pieces on the Altar of Life. Life is sacred. Life is shit. Life happens. I witness. I feel. I create. Being a Jew in a city which lost all it's Jewish population during WWII and living in a house where deported people lived before. Growing up in a neighborhood of Palestinian next to Holocaust survivors marked my existence. Being a woman. Having children. I am hopelessly embedded in the European art, The great Masters were my teachers. Yet I believe that art and beauty are universal, even cosmological. Life. Suffering never ends and becomes insufferable. Joy is new, every and each day. Making art is praying. I am a conceptual artist. All starts with a feeling, an idea.
Award Record
This recognition makes Ruth Bachrach a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/129523
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/129523
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!129523
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/314668
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
- Light Scars Sheers
- Function
- Sheers
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ruth Bachrach
- Country
- Netherlands
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #129523
Credits
- Team
- Ruth Bachrach - designer
- Image Credits
- Ruth Bachrach/Creator
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Ruth's Light Scars is a simple and elegant application of laser cutting technique applied to carefully selected fabrics with a unique designed font which enables the text to be clear yet keeps the strength of the sheers. Ruth is developing this technique to make it easily available to end-consumers (through a Product-on-Demand application) and interior designers. The user-dweller will be able to use chose their own texts (from poetry to prenup) and apply it in their own space. Ruth develops English, Japanese and Arabic fonts and different fabrics. This design brings together words, time, space and light in a unique, intimate and personal way.
- Inspiration
- The main goal is to create both useful and decorative objects which celebrate the personal narrative of the end-consumer. Ruth suffers from ME/Long Covid. 90% of her time she is bedridden. Through the windows she watches her garden. Her Garden of Eden. The days and seasons pass. Light pours through the windows as the sun travels from east to west during the days and seasons, projecting ever moving text through the space. Moorish architecture - The Alhambra. Vermeer's Milk Maid - window, light, simple, daily gesture, attentive gaze, eternity captured. The Koran. The Song of Solomon: Devotion and the loss of the self. The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
- Research
- Ruth searched for a suitable fabric which can be used with laser technique. The fabric is light, strong, and UV resistant as well. It can be cleaned and ironed. Ruth designed a font which can be cut out of the fabric, keeping the fabric strong enough not to tear and the text easy to read. Another Ruth searched the applications of motives in fabrics as a medium to tell and pass through the personal and collective narrative. Light Scars is inspired by the use of written word in architecture as an ornamental and message-carrying element. Another aspect is the use of written texts as an ornamental element in cultures and religions which forbid the use of images, as the Islam and Judaism.
- Challenge
- Ruth challenge was to capture time, space, meaning & love. She intended to transcendent the personal narrative of the end-user into a physical sensation, encapsulated in an ornamental as well as a useful object.
- Realization and Technology
- polyester fabric / Own designed Font / Laser cutting Available fonts in Hebrew, English, Japanese and Arabic.
- Operation and Interaction
- The end-customer has two options. The first one is to assign Ruth to design their own personal version of Light Scars, which will meet their own needs, their space and with their chosen texts. The other option is a Product-on-Demand platform which is now being developed. The costumer will be able to design their own sheers, with the text of their choice, and it will be manufactured and sent to them. Light Scars is currently available in English, Arabic, Japanese and Hebrew fonts.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project was a part of installation-performance, to commemorate the previous dwellers of Ruth's apartment in Amsterdam, a Jewish family who was deported and murdered during WW II. This try out took place between March and July 2018. Research and production started back in 2016 and are still in development.
- Specifications
- This technique and font can be adjusted for personal end-consumer use and for a specific project design. Original design is 3600 x 3200 X 0.1 mm.
- Keywords
- Light, curtains, POD, text
