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Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang and Yunan Lin Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Musipple Music Player in Audio and Sound Equipment Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang and Yunan Lin for audio and sound equipment design
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COMO, Italy, April 17, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Musipple Music Player by Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang and Yunan Lin, designed for School of Design and Art, Beijing Institute of Technology, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Audio and Sound Equipment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 assessed 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.
Regarding Musipple Music Player
Musipple is a music player that combines traditional Chinese culture with modern technology. The form is inspired by ripples, a common image in Eastern art, and by the shape of a vinyl record player. To start playback, the arm is moved to the centre of the ripples, as if the ripples were caused by the listener. The main body is made of high-strength plastic panels, which are compression moulded, assembled and surface treated. The speaker system uses two tweeters, two midrange units and one woofer.
About Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang and Yunan Lin
He Ziqiang is a doctoral student in design at Beijing Institute of Technology. His research direction is artificial intelligence-assisted industrial design. His works have won internationally renowned design awards such as the iF Student Award and the K-Design Award, and he has published many related papers. He believes that artificial intelligence technology will greatly expand the scope of design and improve the effect of design, allowing us to embrace artificial intelligence and embrace new design models.
Award Record
This recognition makes Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang and Yunan Lin a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2023 - 2024 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Audio and Sound Equipment Design Award
The A' Audio Products Design Award is an international product design competition recognizing best audio equipment by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to audio product designers, sound equipment designers, industrial designers and product engineers from all countries. Entries typically include headphones, microphones, speakers, amplifiers, soundbars and turntables. Awarded audio products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/audio-products
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/159343
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/159343
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!159343
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/276318
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Musipple Music Player
- Function
- Music Player
- Category
- Audio and Sound Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Entertainment
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Lavender, Tomato, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- School of Design and Art, Beijing Institute of Technology
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang and Yunan Lin
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #159343
Credits
- Team
- Ziqiang He, Hao Zhang, Yunan Lin, Sihong Chen and Yue Gao
- Image Credits
- Designer Ziqiang He, MusippleE1, 2024.; Designer Hao Zhang, Musipple2, 2024.; Designer Yunan Lin, Musipple3, 2024.; Designer Sihong Chen, Musipple4, 2024.; Designer Yue Gao, Musipple5, 2024.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Musipple is a music player that combines traditional Chinese culture and modern technology. It is inspired by ripples, a common Eastern image, and combined with the shape of a vinyl record player. It hopes to achieve the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures and the fusion of ancient and modern times, creating an interesting interaction and bringing users a new music-listening experience.
- Inspiration
- Wei Yingwu, a poet from the Tang Dynasty in China, once wrote a poem. The meaning of the poem is that the trees near the water cause ripples when they touch the water, and the birds on the trees are singing. To turn poetry into a product, MUSIPPLE adopts the shape of a vinyl record player, which is also an attempt to integrate Eastern and Western cultures.
- Research
- Musipple attempts to connect Eastern cultural intentions with Western product styling, while also making the product more traditional and modern. In terms of interaction, we have also made corresponding designs to make the speaker playback more natural.
- Challenge
- How to achieve the integration of eastern and western cultures and the integration of tradition and modernity is the difficulty of this project. We have gradually overcome the above problems through the design of modeling semantics, interaction methods, and other aspects.
- Realization and Technology
- Select the speaker unit and crossover. High-strength plastic is selected as the main material of the box. According to the design drawings, the high-strength plastic is compression molded and assembled into various panels and connecting parts of the speaker, such as the front panel, back panel, side panels, top panel, bottom panel, and reinforced support. structure etc. Use screws and glue to connect and fix the various components together to ensure the stability and structural strength of the box. Internal padding and soundproofing. Carry out surface treatment, including sanding, painting, spraying, skinning, and other processes to increase the beauty and protection of the wooden box.
- Operation and Interaction
- The way to turn on Musipple is also very special. You need to move the pole to the center of the ripples as if the ripples are caused by you. The music is embodied at this moment. Ingeniously, this is consistent with the way vinyl records play music.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2023 in Beijing and finished in February 2024 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- 350mm x 120mm x 350mm Bluetooth: 5.0 Bluetooth encoding: aptX Adaptive AAC SBC Amplifier power output: 240W Frequency response: 35Hz~24kHz Unit:2x 25mm (1") double-dome tweeter, 2x90mm (3.5") FST midrange, 1x150mm (6") woofer
- Keywords
- Ripple, Music Player, Oriental intention, Interactive Design
