Press Release
Lacey Cuff Bracelets by Diana Sokolic Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
The international grand jury of the 2014 - 2015 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Diana Sokolic for fashion and travel accessories design
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2016 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion and Travel Accessories Design category for Lacey Cuff Bracelets by Diana Sokolic. The result belongs to the 2014 - 2015 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
More About Lacey Cuff Bracelets
We all have drawers full of the lace made by our mothers and grandmothers. Those doyleys were used as the decoration on coffee tables, tv-sets, or armchairs. Nowadays, they have emotional value, but no use. Diana Sokolic made cuff bracelets with lace between two plates of transparent Plexiglas. Beautiful pieces made with love and patience have regained their purpose connecting our past with our present.
About Diana Sokolic
Diana Sokolic is a professional artist from Croatia. She has graduated painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and works as a free-lancer since. Her main field of interest is light in art and she makes lumino-kinetic installations of Plexiglas and LED light. Except that, she teaches art, makes photographs and designs.
Award Record
With this recognition, Diana Sokolic is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2012 - 2013 and the 2014 - 2015 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fashion and Travel Accessories Design Award
The A' Accessory Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good accessory designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to accessory designers, fashion designers, travel accessory designers and luxury goods manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include handbags, scarves, belts, luggage, hats and travel bags. The awarded accessory designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/accessory
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/35692
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/35692
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!35692
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/122658
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lacey Cuff Bracelets
- Function
- Cuff Bracelets
- Category
- Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion and Luxury
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Silver, Gainsboro and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Diana Sokolic
- Country
- Croatia
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2014 - 2015
- Design ID
- #35692
Credits
- Image Credits
- Diana Sokolic, 2014.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Our great grandmothers and grandmothers were brought up to play piano, read poetry and make lace. In the 60ies, their daughters kept those lace doyleys under the glass on coffee tables and commodes. Now we have drawers full of lace and needlework. It has no use in modernly furnished flats, it hass just an emotional value. I have made cuff bracelets with lace between two plates of transparent Plexiglas. In this way the lace has kept its transparency, gained new use, at the same time recognizing the women who made it and those who kept it for us.
- Inspiration
- From time to time I open the drawer with lace and needlework kept between sheets of thin white paper. I look at them with love and patience, expecting to hear them talking to me. I know that those pieces want to be used again, that they want to show their beauty. And one day it just happened! They talked to me!
- Research
- This project was technically the most diffucult one for me. I was affraid that I will burn the lace while experimenting with different temperatures in order to bent the PMMA, since I could not experiment with something else except the lace itself. PMMA plates have to be really hot in order to stick to one another, while the lace is between the layers. I had to find lace doyleys which are not to big because cuffs have to be weareable.
- Challenge
- Since PMMA has to be heated in order to be bent, the most challenging part was how to heat it without burning the delicate threads of needlework and then how to connect the lace and the Plexiglas without the glue.
- Realization and Technology
- Lace and PMMA I did not want to put delicate lace in a metal frame or any other heavy material. So I decided to put it between two pieces of transparent Plexiglas.
- Operation and Interaction
- Cuffs are open at the back so one size fits all
- Project Duration and Location
- I have made these bracelets in my hometown Zagreb, Croatia and the process lasted for several month. This project has not been shown jet.
- Keywords
- lace,cuff bracelet, accessorie, fashion
