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Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen and XingYe Wang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Point Air Purifier in Home Appliances Design

The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen and XingYe Wang for home appliances design

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COMO, Italy, April 17, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category for Point Air Purifier by Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen and XingYe Wang, designed for Hunan Institute of Engineering. The recognition forms part of 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.

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 Point Air Purifier

Point is an air purifier combined with a floor lamp. The compact form can be placed anywhere in a room without drilling holes in the wall. The angle, direction and position are adjusted by hand, and the height can be changed to suit the user. Point detects air quality and adjusts the air volume automatically, raising the airflow when the air is poor. A filter removes dust, and a light strip with UVC lamps limits bacteria and viruses. The integrated design saves space and reduces the number of appliances needed.

About Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen and XingYe Wang

秦雅婷性格外向开朗,喜欢与人交流,也善于倾听别人的想法,身边的同事朋友都认为她是一个非常随和的人,她的性格非常有利于人际关系的和谐,所以雅婷秦这个性格也让她有很多朋友。在工作上,她也能为团队工作的顺利发展提供良好的氛围,维护团队的和谐!

Award Record

With this recognition, Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen and XingYe Wang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Home Appliances Design Award

The A' Home Appliance Design Award is an international competition recognizing good home appliance designs by best appliance designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to home appliance designers, industrial designers, product engineers and appliance brands from all countries. Typical entries include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. The awarded home appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/home-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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Point Air Purifier
Function
Air Purifier
Category
Home Appliances Design
Discipline
Industrial Design
Industry
Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
Colors
Dim Gray, Gray, Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Gainsboro
Images
5
Client
Hunan Institute of Engineering

The Recognition

Laureate
Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen and XingYe Wang
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2023 - 2024
Design ID
#159155

Credits

Team
Yating Qin, Duo Xu, Jijia Chen, Fangui Zeng and Xingye Wang
Image Credits
Hunan Institute of Engineering

Design Details

Unique Properties
For users with small living space and frequent changes in living places, quick installation and portability are their preferred reasons. In this case, the integrated design combines the floor lamp with the purifier not only reduces the use of space but also reduces the purchase of multiple home parts. For most of the room space is small, the air circulation is not smooth, this air purifier can detect the air quality intelligently, automatically adjust the air volume, the worse the quality, the greater the air volume, accelerate the air circulation, purify the surrounding air environment.
Inspiration
Point is an easy to install air purifier. Its compact size and form factor can be easily installed anywhere in the room without drilling holes in the wall. The Angle of view, direction and position can be easily changed by hand. This design focuses on the flexibility of installation, easy to adapt to the site environment, timely detection of air quality, sterilization and air purification. Lighting and cleaning integrated design, reduce space use area.
Research
Product development focuses on increasingly intelligent, integrated lifestyles, and invisible integrated design is becoming more common in daily life.The product is simple to install, set lighting and purification as one, that is, save space and reduce the number of electrical appliances purchased by users, and can be easily applied to the use of places.
Challenge
Ensure the unity of the product's balance function and aesthetic characteristics, and ensure the reasonable arrangement of each function.
Realization and Technology
The air purifier can intelligently detect air quality, the installed filter element can filter dust, and the lamp belt is equipped with UVC germicidal lamps, inhibiting bacteria and viruses and purifying the air again.
Operation and Interaction
As a simple installation of the air purifier, the combination of lighting and purification into one, that is, saving space and reducing the number of user appliances purchased, can be easily applied to the use of places, users can adjust the height according to personal preferences, the air purifier can be intelligent detection of air quality, according to the quality of air volume regulation. The smart display displays the air status and can be adjusted by turning the button.
Project Duration and Location
The project was designed in January 2024 at the School of Design and Art of Hunan Institute of Engineering.
Specifications
Width 600 mm x depth 400 mm x height 1800 mm
Keywords
Floor lamp, air purifier, integrated, easy to install, intelligent

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