Press Release
Chuheng He Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Color Roller Furniture Set in Furniture Design
Chuheng He honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Color Roller Furniture Set by Chuheng He, designed for He Chuheng, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Color Roller Furniture Set
Color Roller is a furniture set that changes color combinations through rolling. As a construction experiment, it uses basic colors and shapes to reconstruct the space. Three transparent acrylic panels, red, blue, and yellow, intersect and overlap to form a vibrant palette, displaying varied colors under different lighting conditions and perspectives. Minimally and cleverly, Color Roller utilizes the rotatability of shapes to create different structures and forms for each component. Users can freely flip and rearrange the pieces to personalize their space with dynamic color combinations.
About Chuheng He
Chuheng He is a Chinese designer studying Industrial Design at Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation. His practice centers on furniture and product design, with work recognized by international design institutions including the Red Dot Award and the Asia Design Prize. Guided by a design philosophy that centers on making design interesting, ingenious, and inspiring, he is committed to exploring new relationships between form and function. He is the founder of Hectogon, a design brand that strives to reconstruct contemporary lifestyles through minimalist geometries.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chuheng He is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. The competition 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. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
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/167382
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167382
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167382
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/355964
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Color Roller Furniture Set
- Function
- Furniture Set
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Ghost White, Lavender, Silver, Orange and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- He Chuheng
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chuheng He
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167382
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Color Roller is a furniture set that changes color combinations through rolling, using basic shapes and colors to create a unique spatial experience. Made from transparent acrylic, it displays varied colors under different lighting. Three acrylic panels intersect and overlap to form a vibrant palette. Minimally, the set features a hexagonal chair, rectangular table and triangular floor lamp. Users can flip and rearrange the pieces to personalize their space with dynamic color combinations.
- Inspiration
- Like De Stijl deconstructed space with three simple colors, Color Roller uses these colors flexibly to reconstruct the world. Red, yellow, and blue, when made transparent, create more colors through layering. Color Roller is an experiment with color, exploring the geometric properties of shapes and volumes. The three components use different structures, with acrylic panels intersecting in pairs, linking basic forms and colors through construction.
- Research
- The design research started with studying how three panels overlap in different ways. The 1:5 scale models were created to test lighting effects, leading to three basic geometric structures. The 1:1 prototypes were made with different materials and connections, especially for the hexagonal chair, which needs to support human weight. Aluminum, wood, and acrylic frames were tested, with acrylic varying in thickness and solidity. The lightest structure was selected after weight-bearing tests.
- Challenge
- The first prototype of the acrylic chair was very sturdy, able to support human weight. However, the solid acrylic frame was too bulky, losing its intended light and free appearance, and the thick colored panels increased costs. So, I began simplifying the design, optimizing the structure to use minimal materials and adhesive, while maintaining the load-bearing capacity.
- Realization and Technology
- Colored acrylic thermoforming and adhesive bonding.
- Operation and Interaction
- Color Roller can change its color composition through rolling, allowing users to freely flip and rearrange the pieces to decorate the interior space and create a personalized creative atmosphere.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2024 in Shanghai and finished in October 2024 in Shanghai.
- Specifications
- Chair: 892 mm x 540 mm x 892 mm Table: 750 mm x 600 mm x 450 mm Lamp: 328 mm x 328 mm x 1440 mm
- Keywords
- Acrylic, Color, Hexagon, Geometry, Roller, Rolling, Combination
