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Jian Yang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for U-Comfort Rattan Chair in Furniture Design
Jian Yang recognized for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for U-Comfort Rattan Chair by Jian Yang, designed for Southwest Jiaotong University. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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 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.
More About U-Comfort Rattan Chair
U-Comfort is a rattan lounge chair intended for homes, beaches, resorts and other leisure settings. The overall form is round and smooth, with curved lines. A circular closed ring at the side of the chair acts as both a visual feature and a support structure. The frame is made from thick rattan that is bent by heating, and the joints are wrapped with rattan skin. The seating surface is woven by hand. Topology optimization software was used to refine the structure, so that material is used economically while the mechanical requirements of a seat are met.
Award Record
Jian Yang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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. It 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. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
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/158245
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158245
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158245
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/352904
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.figma.com/file/cuJ4rZFvmokVs29yGekBCx/U-comfort?
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- U-Comfort Rattan Chair
- Function
- Rattan Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Silver, Tan, Gainsboro, Rosy Brown and Peru
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Southwest Jiaotong University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jian Yang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #158245
Credits
- Team
- Yang Jian, Li Qi, Xiao Xiao, Wang Chao, Chen Junge, Cong Wenzhuo, Chen Ying, Zhou Ziyi, Wu Yunting, Wang Zhixiao, Yan Yuting and Guo Yixuan and others
- Image Credits
- Creator Ziyi Zhou,U-comfort,2023; Creator Ziyi Zhou,U-comfort,2023 Video:Photographer Junge Chen,U-comfort,2024 Video:Creator Wenzhuo Cong,U-comfort,2024 Sound:Created by AI dubbing software Dupdub Song#1: Keys Of Moon - The Epic Hero License: Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Song#2: Keys Of Moon - Way To Dream License: Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Song#3: Keys Of Moon - Lonesome Journey License: Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This rattan chair has an overall round and smooth shape with beautiful curves. The highlight of the styling of this rattan chair is the circular closed-ring structure on the side, which is strikingly symbolic and also serves as a support structure.
- Inspiration
- During the process, we used wire to construct the product structure. In order to reflect the soft and tough nature of rattan, we mostly used a closed-loop structure . On this basis, we also used the bi-directional topological computing software Ameba to iterate the structure, so as to improve the structure of the rattan chair, so that it not only conforms to the mechanical characteristics of the seat, but also meets our design aesthetic perception, so as to achieve the harmonization of the two.
- Challenge
- Styling&topology optimization calculation New paradigms based on AI algorithms have begun to infiltrate various industries that humans were once proud of, such as AI music arranging, AI painting, AI driving, and AI design. AI is attempting to replace the creativity that is uniquely human. So, how to deal with AI design? What role do AI algorithms play in the design process? In the design of this recliner, we tried to balance the relationship between human designers and AI algorithms, where human aesthetic concepts and human-machine comfort decided by the designers are the dominant and constraining principles, while the AI algorithms are strictly limited to secondary design on this basis.
- Realization and Technology
- Rattan weaving generally goes through a dozen or so processes, such as beating rattan (cutting off the knots and scars on the rattan), picking rattan, washing rattan, tanning rattan, arguing rattan, pulling rattan (planing rattan), chipping rattan, bleaching, dyeing, weaving, and lacquering. Rattan furniture, mainly the production of bracket and weaving surface weaving. With rough rattan production bracket, its bending shape can be used to bake and saw mouth bending two ways. Saw mouth bending method is simple, but the strength is weakened and the curve is not natural and smooth.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2022 in Chongzhou and finished in January 2024 in Chengdu.
- Specifications
- Dimensions:L850mm,W640mm,H870mm
- Keywords
- Seat design, Non-heritage culture
