Press Release
Flaneur Jewellery Collection by Qiuyu Yang Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design
Qiuyu Yang honored for jewelry design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Flaneur Jewellery Collection by Qiuyu Yang has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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.
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 Flaneur Jewellery Collection
Flaneur is a jewellery collection that turns personal movement data into wearable form. Each piece translates a recorded walking route through a city into a three-dimensional shape, so every wearer receives a unique design. The collection is produced by three-dimensional printing and uses precious metal and opals. The changing colours of the opals refer to the day and night life of London, the city used as the starting point. Flaneur lets people keep a lasting record of daily journeys and travels.
About Qiuyu Yang
Qiuyu Yang is a jewellery designer from China, who grew up in the U.K. Qiuyu has an avid interest in and knowledge of the jewellery design industry for over 10 years. With her fearless and commercial design language in Central Saint Martins, to her autobiographical narrative contemporary jewellery expression in Birmingham School of Jewellery, to her international jewellery culture propagation in Shanghai. She was awarded 2017 most outstanding graduate Jewellery designer in the world by Wallpaper* magazine. She has always focused on the sustainable development of the world in jewellery creation.
Award Record
This recognition makes Qiuyu Yang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Jewelry Design Award
The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Typical entries include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. The awarded jewelry designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/jewelry
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/94827
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/94827
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!94827
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/263130
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Flaneur Jewellery Collection
- Function
- Jewellery Collection
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Firebrick, Saddle Brown, Chocolate and Maroon
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Qiuyu Yang
- Country
- Great Britain
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #94827
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yingwei Tang, Flaneur Jewellery Collection, 2017
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Flaneur jewellery collection offer those people who are enthusiastic for life, an opportunity to see their everyday urban life reflected directly from data visualization. In effect making treasure from their experiential millennial lifestyle. Using London as the pilot city flaneur jewellery collection can be rolled out across global cities and allows mobile urbanites to build a collection of jewellery that creates a innovative record of their life and travels.
- Inspiration
- The revolution of big data is reshaping many aspects of daily lives at a global level. Much of the excitement around data streams is not their capture but what can now be done with the data. In parallel, the advent of rapid digital production has changed the jewellery landscape. Flaneur jewellery collection is a project explores how we live our daily lives, what this offers in terms of personal data and how we might start to think about what data to store or incorporate into our lives and in what way.
- Research
- Primary research step 1, exploring routes, surveys, street interviews, questionnaire, over 100 women living in London, 63% of women have ecorded their walking route in the past, women are free to walk in the city like a flaneur, the project has a big market. Primary research step 2, collecting routes, interviews, one to one interviews, email, over 30 women living and recording their walking route in London, near 50% of women's route have regular shape due to their living habit, the design form can be meaningful to the clients.
- Challenge
- 1. In mass market, it is a new concept to combine big data and daily life events as an inspiration. 2. For narrative jewellery embedded with people’s own life track meaning, it has not been widely accepted by the public. Therefore, the operation mode still needs to be improved. 3. Personalised customer service is not a rapid marketing business model, which needs certain cost in time. 4. Castable resin is not an universally available material in 3D print field world-widely; therefore it might cause difficulty during the production process.
- Realization and Technology
- 3D jewellery forms are designed to present 2D data visualisation manufactured through a 3D print technique, so that every individual has an opportunity to wear unique jewellery. Precious metal and opals are used in the collection. The colourful reflection in opals represents the colourful day and the night life of London.
- Operation and Interaction
- Flaneur jewellery collection is the route of everyone's everyday life recorded in a piece that can be worn. Voicing out Big Data.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2015 in London and finished in June 2017 in London, and was published in Wallpaper Magazine in January 2018.
- Specifications
- Width 61mm x Depth 70mm x Height 14mm Width 83.5mm x Depth 78mm x Height 24mm Width 76mm x Depth 80mm x Height 30mm Width 40mm x Depth 32.5mm x Height 14mm
- Keywords
- big data, data visualisation, 3D print, day to day lives, route, London
