Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Goes to Luminous Lighting and Sound System by Mohammad Hossein Namayandegi
The international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Mohammad Hossein Namayandegi for lighting products and fixtures design
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category for Luminous Lighting and Sound System by Mohammad Hossein Namayandegi, designed for M. Namayandegi. The award was conferred within the 2018 - 2019 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 Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Luminous Lighting and Sound System
Luminous designed to offer ergonomic lighting solution and surround sound system in a single product. It is aimed to create emotions that the users desire to feel and utilized a combination of sound and light to achieve this goal. The sound system developed on the basis of sound reflection and simulates 3D surround sound in the room without the need for wiring and installing multiple speakers around the place. As a pendant light, Luminous creates direct and indirect illumination. This lighting system provides a soft, uniform, and low contrast light which prevents glare and vision problem.
About Mohammad Hossein Namayandegi
M. Namayandegi has worked as a researcher and freelance designer since 2005 and developed various types of products including home appliances, lighting, and also solutions for disabled people. As a design researcher, he has published papers about creative design tools, user-centered design processes, and Ergonomics. He believes that good design creates a new experience for the users and improves human life while reducing environmental effects and increasing equality.
Award Record
Mohammad Hossein Namayandegi is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. The awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
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/71963
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/71963
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!71963
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/228072
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Luminous Lighting and Sound System
- Function
- Lighting and Sound System
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Light Slate Gray, Silver, Lavender, Dark Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- M. Namayandegi
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mohammad Hossein Namayandegi
- Country
- Iran
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #71963
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Luminous offers an ergonomic lighting solution and spherical surround sound system in a single product and aimed to make a new experience for the users by creating an emotion that they desire to feel. The sound system used in the product, placed above the listener's head and creates surround dome-shaped sound in the room without the need for wiring and installing multiple speakers around the place. As a pendant light, Luminous has been designed to create indirect lighting. This lighting system provides a soft, uniform, and low-contrast light which prevents glare and vision problems.
- Inspiration
- Luminous is inspired by nature and follows ergonomic design principles. The indirect lighting system in the product works in the same way as the sky in nature, the sky distributes light across a large surface and creates desirable ambient light. The sound system of the product also transmits the sound to the listener in the same way as it is in nature, in multilayer levels, and from all directions.
- Research
- The main design philosophy of Luminous is to create atmosphere and emotion that the users desire to feel, including peace, excitation, or companionship with friends and colleagues in working or living spaces. On this basis and at the first step, various concepts were generated and it was concluded that the combination of light and sound in a single product can be a practical solution. Our aim was to create a spatial sound system and natural and efficient lighting solution. Accordingly, and during the 2nd phase, sound and light generation and perception in nature were investigated. Ergonomic guidelines for lighting design also studied.
- Challenge
- The most challenging issue during the design process was to make a balance between the product's form and functions. In fact, the core functions of the product had a dominant effect on its form. Moreover, the product should not look unusual, weird and bulky, but appealing, functional and compatible with different environments. Accordingly, more than 20 samples were generated and evaluated in order to find the optimum solution.
- Realization and Technology
- Luminous uses LED light sources along with acrylic diffuser. It is equipped with an Ambient Light Sensor that adjusts the brightness of the LEDs on the basis of the ambient light level in the room. The sound system consists of a sound processor and 20 small speakers that emit the sound in the form of separate channels with different output intensity, in a 360-degree radius and at different firing angles. Consequently, it creates various real and virtual sound sources in the room.
- Operation and Interaction
- Luminous consists of two main parts: 1) Lighting and sound unit, 2) Bluetooth Audio Adapter, that allows the user to interact with the lighting and sound unit, and stream sound and music from a TV, game console, microphone, memory stick, or Blu-ray player wirelessly.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2018 and finished in late September 2018 in Tehran, Iran
- Specifications
- Luminous can be produced in different sizes with various light and sound output power for different groups of users.
- Keywords
- Ergonomic design, Indirect lighting, Wireless sound system, 3D sound, Design for emotions
