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Li Yuan and Juanjuan Hu Receives the Platinum A' Design Award for Florasis Gold Filigree Love Lock Lipstick in Luxury Design
Li Yuan and Juanjuan Hu recognized for luxury design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Florasis Gold Filigree Love Lock Lipstick by Li Yuan and Juanjuan Hu, designed for Florasis, has been granted the Platinum A' Design Award in the Luxury Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Platinum A' Design Award Means
The Platinum A' Design Award is recognized for honoring designs that stand at the forefront of creativity and innovation. It is the highest accolade bestowed by the A' Design Awards, acknowledging works that blend remarkable innovation with impactful societal contributions. These designs not only showcase exceptional artistic and technical proficiency but also highlight their creators' commitment to advancing the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recipients of this award are celebrated for their role in shaping the aesthetics and trends of our time, contributing significantly to the enhancement of quality of life and promoting sustainable development.
Regarding Florasis Gold Filigree Love Lock Lipstick
The design is inspired by the Love Lock in traditional Chinese culture. The Love Lock is an artifact wielded by the legendary Matchmaking God in China. This product is designed by the inspiration of the Love Lock in Chinese traditional culture, used as a lipstick and jewelry. It carries countless people’s longing for love, meaning that love is as heavy as gold and two hearts are locked together forever. As a lipstick, Press the button and the lipstick pops out, simple and practical. As jewelry, the removable pure gold feather on the lid is not only a brooch but also a pendant with a chain.
About Li Yuan and Juanjuan Hu
Juan Juan Hu interests in jewelry design include the application of traditional culture in contemporary jewelry, combination of jewelry design and cultural industry, research and application of morphological semantics and emotion in jewelry design, and study on the variability of jewelry function. While teaching jewelry design and product design in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), She also runs Juan Juan Jewelry Design Studio in Shanghai. During the design teaching in the university, Juan Juan Hu has made achievements in design theory research, establishment of school and enterprise project cooperation, and cultivation of new generation of design talents.
Award Record
Li Yuan and Juanjuan Hu is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Luxury Design Award
The A' Luxury Design Award is an international competition recognizing excellent luxury products and projects by leading designers and luxury brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to luxury designers, high-end fashion designers, luxury car designers and luxury watch designers from all countries. Typical entries include yachts, private jets, high-end watches, luxury cars, designer handbags and opulent jewelry. The awarded luxury designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/luxury
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/147144
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147144
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147144
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/268654
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Florasis Gold Filigree Love Lock Lipstick
- Function
- Lipstick
- Category
- Luxury Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Burly Wood, Dark Khaki, Linen, Peru and Wheat
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Florasis
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Li Yuan and Juanjuan Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Platinum A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147144
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Florasis Gold Filigree Love Lock Lipstick can be used as a lipstick and worn as a piece of jewelry. The pure gold feather on the lid is a removable piece of jewelry, which can be worn as a brooch or as a pendant with a chain. This custom multipurpose lipstick can be used as a collectible. It fits contemporary people’s lifestyle and different usage scenarios.
- Inspiration
- The "Love Lock" in traditional Chinese culture served as the design's primary source of inspiration. The Love lock, a mythical Chinese treasure of the old moon, is said to contain the love energy of countless individuals. It implies that love is as valuable as gold and that it will last forever, sending wishes for love and good luck. We'll always be together, conected with locks of affection. Chinese-style romanticism is what Florasis Gold Filigree Couture Lock Lipstick is all about. The affection conveyed by the concentric lock endures the test of time thanks to the exquisite workmanship that has been handed down for thousands of years and the constant pure gold material.
- Research
- The use of Chinese gold filigree in this work represents the inheritance and development of this traditional handicraft. This craft is used to make the feather-shaped brooch on the lipstick's lid. Furthermore, how to combine the filigree craft with 3D printing technology on the lipstick's lid has been researched, resulting in a more precise motif and ornament on the lipstick's lid's surface. The gold filigree lid has an openable structure to make it easier to get the lipstick in and out. The use of 3D printing technology also improves the precision of the lid's openable structure.
- Challenge
- At present, there are only a few gold filigree craftsmen in China. We were fortunate to find a top-level craftsman and work with him to apply this traditional handicraft to the design of the lipstick and jewelry. In this work, the gold filaments are as thin as 0.2mm. The motif and ornament on the surface of the product are made with those gold filaments through techniques including stacking, piling, knitting, weaving, pinching, filling, assembling and welding. Such handicrafts are challenging and difficult to make.In addition, the combination of a lipstick with a piece of jewelry poses a challenge to the design of the structure.
- Realization and Technology
- This gold filigree Love Lock Lipstick is an ancient traditional Chinese handicraft. It is a gold processing technique used in ancient China's imperial court. Pure gold filaments as thin as 0.2mm are created. Stacking, piling, knitting, weaving, pinching, filling, assembling, and welding are then used to finish the filigree by hand. Mr. Yuan Changjun, a top Chinese filigree craftsman, created this piece. He has devoted himself to the filigree craft for over thirty years as a representative inheritor of the intangible heritage filigree craft. He holds the title of Beijing Municipal Master of Arts and Crafts.
- Operation and Interaction
- This piece of design can be used as a lipstick. Press the button and the lipstick pops out. In addition to being used as a lipstick, it can also be worn as a piece of jewelry. The feather-shaped ornament on the lid is a removable piece of jewelry, which can be worn as a brooch or as a pendant with a chain. This design can be worn in multiple ways
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2021 and finished in January 2022 in China.
- Specifications
- 91.5mm x 42mm x 37mm
- Keywords
- Lipstick, jewelry, necklace, brooch, gold filigree craft, Florasis
