Press Release
Blue Sky Lab 2021 Travel and Collection by Nio Life Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
Nio Life acknowledged for fashion, apparel and garment design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Blue Sky Lab 2021 Travel and Collection by Nio Life has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category. The award was conferred within 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Blue Sky Lab 2021 Travel and Collection
Blue Sky Lab 2021 is a collection of bags, storage items and apparel made from materials left over from automotive manufacturing. The storage boxes are made from Haptex BASF leather, while the carry-on bags, backpacks and garments are made from safety airbag fabric and safety belts. The storage boxes can be used at home or inside a car, and the bags suit many everyday environments. The collection reuses premium materials that would otherwise be discarded. The aim is to reduce resource consumption and to support sustainable fashion.
About Nio Life
NIO Life is NIO's original design lifestyle brand, integrating global design resources and collaborating with independent designers and top design schools in the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, and Asia to create a joyful lifestyle with products that represent progressive attitudes, good stories, and quality designs.
Award Record
With this recognition, Nio Life is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Award
The A' Fashion Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good fashion designs by best fashion designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to fashion designers, apparel designers, garment designers and textile designers from all countries. Entries typically include runway collections, dresses, suits, skirts, outerwear and jackets. Awarded fashion designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fashion
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/136343
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136343
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136343
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/327128
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
- Blue Sky Lab 2021 Travel and Collection
- Function
- Travel and Collection
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Light Gray, Lavender, Dark Gray, Silver and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nio Life
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136343
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The entire Blue Sky Lab Life Collection is made from materials left over from the automotive manufacturing process, including storage bags made from BASF leather, carry-on bags and backpacks made from safety airbag fabric, and apparel made from safety airbag fabric.
- Inspiration
- The collection is inspired by the waste of resources in the production of automobiles. These materials are of premium quality and create a new aesthetic. Meanwhile, they reduce the planet's resource consumption and promote environmental protection and energy saving in the automobile manufacturing industry.
- Research
- The concept of the collection aims to influence the development of sustainable fashion. Based on the waste of resources in the automotive manufacturing industry, the designers came up with ideas on how to create original and unique products for a new aesthetic. New designs that force consumers to think, make responsible choices and change their consumption habits are at the heart of the design.
- Challenge
- The most difficult part is the core of the product. The designers hope to output the design standard and design style and form a unified product system with the future style, while the product is the carrier of the design style.
- Realization and Technology
- Safety belts, Airbags, and Haptex BASf leather
- Operation and Interaction
- Storage boxes made of Haptex BASF leather can be placed at home or in a car for storing items. And multiple bag types which made by airbags and safety belts can be placed in multiple environments. In this way, the philosophy of the brand about sustainable fashion is being practiced.
- Project Duration and Location
- Opening of the project in December 2020, first sale in September 2021
