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Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor in Vehicle Parts, Auto Accessories and Care Products Design
Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu recognized for vehicle parts, auto accessories and care products design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu, designed for Theunique, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Vehicle Parts, Auto Accessories and Care Products Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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 Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor
Agarwood is rare and expensive. Its aroma can only be obtained from burning or extraction, used indoor and afforded by few users. To break these limitations, a smart aroma diffusor and natural hand-made agarwood tablets are created after 3-year’s efforts with over 60 designs, 10 prototypes and 200 experiments. It demonstrates a new possible business model and using context for agarwood industry. Users can simply insert diffusor inside of a car, customise time, density and variety of aroma with ease and enjoy the immersive aromatherapy wherever they go and whenever they drive.
Award Record
This recognition makes Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Vehicle Parts, Auto Accessories and Care Products Design Award
The A' Vehicle Accessory Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing good vehicle accessories by designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to vehicle accessory designers, auto parts manufacturers, automotive engineers and car care product designers from all countries. Entries typically include car seat covers, GPS systems, roof racks, floor mats, steering wheel covers and car audio. Awarded vehicle accessory designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/vehicle-accessory
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/91773
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/91773
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!91773
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/258901
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.theunique-air.com/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor
- Function
- Smart Aroma Diffusor
- Category
- Vehicle Parts, Auto Accessories and Care Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray, Light Slate Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Theunique
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #91773
Credits
- Team
- Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu
- Image Credits
- Zhang Mengting Li Xiaolin Yang Chunxu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The product set consists of a smart aroma diffuser and several natural and hand-made agarwood tablets, which can be used inside of a vehicle. When turning on the diffusor, the tablet inside can be heated multi-dimensionally, creating an immersive aroma environment, wherever and whenever a user drives. Agarwood tablet created and heated this way can volatilise stably with longer time and higher efficiency, compared with the traditional way of burning. It revolutionises agarwood industry with an easy to use, customised, affordable and sustainable solution.
- Inspiration
- Agarwood has significant meaning in culture, arts, literature and religious ceremony in China. Its aroma is rare and expensive, which can be obtained merely from burning or extraction and afforded by few users. Its usage is strictly limited by time and space. To explore its modern using context and new market possibilities, a project was launched to study agarwood with modern Bio-Technology and a product set was developed based on it.
- Research
- To modernise the traditional agarwood industry and let more people afford and enjoy it, the first industry-university collaborated agarwood Bio-Technology Lab is set up in China to study its new integration, using scenario and context. The R&D process takes 3 years, with 60 designs and 10 prototypes created, and over 200 experiments conducted to ensure the performance, efficiency and experience of the product.
- Challenge
- One challenge of the project is to maximise the efficiency of aroma volatilisation. The space inside of a vehicle, duration and speed of volatilisation, density of aroma, and temperature of heating is calculated and tested carefully. Besides, as the diffusor is inserted inside of the cigarette lighter, different vehicles have different standards, it is quite hard to adjust to them.
- Realization and Technology
- The product set is granted with design and technology patents and qualified with international safety standards of SGS and ROHS. The making of portable natural agarwood tablet takes 6 months of perfection using biotechnology, physical thermostat control, fine grinding and carefully multi-dimensional moulding by hand. The tablet maintains its precious and unique ingredients, like spirulin, furan, white wood sulphuric acid and so on. The diffusor is consisted of magnetic heat-absorbed insulation cover, polymer insulation product body and anodised aluminium casing to improve the time, efficiency, and effectiveness of volatilisation.
- Operation and Interaction
- First, put an agarwood tablet inside of a smart aroma diffuser. Then, insert the diffuser into the cigarette lighter inside of a vehicle. After turning on the diffusor, the tablet inside can be heated multi-dimensionally, creating an immersive aroma environment. Users can customised time, density and variety of aroma volatilisation with ease.
- Project Duration and Location
- The research of this project began in 2014. The product set was launched in the market in 2017. The project achieves great success in the design industry and in the market. Its series of products have won international awards like IF and Red Dot. Partners and clients include Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Accor Hotels, InterContinental Hotels, Bank of China, etc.
- Keywords
- Smart Aroma Diffusor, Natural Arwarwood Product, Vehicle-mounted, Immersive Experience, New Using Context
