Tokyo Clutch Bag by Imme Vogel Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion and Travel Accessories Design

Imme Vogel honored for fashion and travel accessories design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Tokyo Clutch Bag by Imme Vogel, designed for Von Rauten, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion and Travel Accessories Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

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.

About Tokyo Clutch Bag

Tokyo is a clutch bag made of high quality cow nappa leather with a mineral tanning. The surface carries a three-dimensional diamond structure that is hand embossed, bag by bag, with single forms instead of industrial machinery. The embossing method leaves the leather free of stitching, soft and flexible, while the relief pattern stays permanent. Hidden magnets at the sides gently shape the zipper for a clean finish. The zipper is hand cast in metal and black chromed. The clutch bag measures 22 by 7 by 11 centimeters.

About Imme Vogel

Imme Vogel is an architect and product designer. She is one that likes to think laterally and to break a rule here and there. She tries new things and collects antique designer pieces. When the few left over pleating factories in Germany advised her to give up her idea around new methods of leather pleating, without further ado, she and her team decided to build their embossing molds themselves and tested different types and qualities of leather until the result met their expectations. ‘I find inspiration equally in nature as in architecture.’ To me the design of a product is perfect, once it leaves nothing more to renounce.

Award Record

Imme Vogel is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

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. The competition 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. Entries typically include handbags, scarves, belts, luggage, hats and travel bags. Awarded accessory designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/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/93957
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/93957
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!93957
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/261381
Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.von-rauten.com/

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Tokyo Clutch Bag
Function: Clutch Bag
Category: Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
Discipline: Fashion Design
Industry: Fashion and Luxury
Colors: Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray, Gray and Silver
Images: 5
Client: Von Rauten

The Recognition

Laureate: Imme Vogel
Country: Germany
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #93957

Design Details

Unique Properties: The trademark of the Tokyo Design Collection: the hand-embossed surfaces with 3D-diamond structure. The leather imprinting is not done in an industrial fashion but indeed handmade, purse-by-purse. Using a specific embossing method, the leather surface remains stitch free, soft and flexible at the same time. Every Bag has specials, so the Clutch: Hidden magnets on the side delicately shape the zipper for a perfect finish. The Tokyo Bags are multi-awarded and the design is protected.
Inspiration: As Interior and product designer, Imme Vogel was sitting on a design for a round wall for a business building. Since Kindergarden, she was inspired by the japanese Origami and folded systems to create different shapes. She worked with paper to create a structure for this wall and thought, this could be a beautiful bag, too. That was the time, the idea around soft handfolded bags was born.
Research: The research itself was very experimental. We want to create a new minimalist luxury with an iconic structure. The embossing could be different according to type of leather, its finish, thickness of leather, the humidity of the leather etc.
Challenge: The leather should be both, stich free, soft and flexible, and the embossing permanent. This was the real challenge.
Realization and Technology: When the few left over pleating factories in Germany advised Imme Vogel to give up her idea around new methods of leather pleating, she and her team decided to build their embossing molds themselves and tested different types and qualities of leather until the result met their expectations. von rauten uses single 3D Forms to emboss each leatherpart one by one. The zipper is from handcasted metal and black chromed, also a design by Imme Vogel. The Leather itself is high quality cow nappa, with a mineral tanning.
Operation and Interaction: It can make you prettier and happy by wearing.
Project Duration and Location: Starts 2016 in Mannheim, we work a Year on the embossing, 2017 the first prototype of the Tokyo Collection - a Bowling Bag wins the Red Dot Award 2017. We create this Clutch at the end of 2017 and finished prototyping spring 2018. Then, the brand von rauten was founded by the designer, Imme Vogel to give the bags a name. This year in september 2019 the Clutch Bag Tokyo wins the 3rd place in BEST OF FASHION at ILM Offenbach.
Specifications: Length: 22 cm Width: 7 cm Height: 11 cm
Keywords: VON RAUTEN, Tokyo, Bag, Imme Vogel, Clutch