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Juan Juan Hu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Jade Fun Jewellery Collection in Jewelry Design
Juan Juan Hu recognized 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category for Jade Fun Jewellery Collection by Juan Juan Hu, designed for Juan Juan Hu Jewelry Design Studio. 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Jade Fun Jewellery Collection
Jade Fun is a jewelry collection of collars, bracelets and brooches made of 18k gold, jade and diamond. Each round jade is carved by hand in the shape of a Chinese safety buckle, a form linked with peace and good fortune, and has a hole in the middle. A gold screw structure passes through the hole and holds the jade in place. The screw can be turned so that the jade is removed or placed again. Each piece can be worn in two ways, with the jade or without it. The collection is intended to create interaction between wearers and jades.
About Juan Juan Hu
Juan Juan Hu interests in jewelry design include the application of traditional culture in contemporary jewelry, combination of jewelry design and cultural industry, research and application of morphological semantics and emotion in jewelry design, and study on the variability of jewelry function. While teaching jewelry design and product design in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), She also runs Juan Juan Jewelry Design Studio in Shanghai. During the design teaching in the university, Juan Juan Hu has made achievements in design theory research, establishment of school and enterprise project cooperation, and cultivation of new generation of design talents.
Award Record
With this recognition, Juan Juan Hu is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2019 - 2020 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/97929
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97929
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97929
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/268654
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Jade Fun Jewellery Collection
- Function
- Jewellery Collection
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Silver, Light Gray, Rosy Brown and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Juan Juan Hu Jewelry Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Juan Juan Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #97929
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer:Li Bo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Jade Collection took the action and behavior of Chinese people as the source of inspiration. The black impurities with green color in jades look like abstract Chinese painting. And each jade is carved by hands.It is a typical Chinese safety buckle shape, implying peace and auspiciousness, with a hole in the middle of the buckle. In the center of each hole, designer has designed an 18k gold rivet structure, allowing for a free rotation to take the jade out. So each jade jewelry is designed in flexible screw structure which can be removed, and the wearer can take out and put in each jade freely.
- Inspiration
- Jade is very popular in China. Many Chinese people are fond of jade, appreciating it, admiring it, and putting it under different light (natural light, warm light, cold light, etc.) to see the changes in the color. Such interaction between people and jades inspire designer to design a series of jade jewelry, allowing people to wear the jades as they like.
- Research
- Jade Fun Collection studies have been conducted on the way Chinese people enjoy and play with jades, along with innovation on the joint structure between jades and jewelry. Each piece of jewelry has a screw structure designed to allow users to freely remove or place in jades, so that they can decide to wear or not to wear jade depending on different occasions or costumes, since both approaches are of visual beauty.
- Challenge
- The screw structure used in jewelry instead of setting jades is challenging and creative.The hinge structure at the joint of each piece of the collar is also challenging and ingenuity-demanding.
- Realization and Technology
- The materials used are 18k gold, jade and diamond. To make it easy for users to put in and take out the jade, designer has designed a screw structure which can pass through the center hole. The diamond-encrusted 18k gold rim also has a delicate hinge structure that can be turned at an angle of about 60 degrees. The screw is inserted from the sheet and then inserted into the center of the circular jade to be fastened, so that the jade can be firmly fixed. The structure of the collar is well designed. To match the curve of the neck and shoulders, the joints of each piece of the collar are also designed with flexible hinges, making it easy to wear while complementing to the line of human body.
- Operation and Interaction
- The series include collars, bracelets and brooches. Brooches can be used for two purposes and can also be worn as pendants. Each round jade can be removed or placed by rotating the screw structure in the middle. Customers can put jade into the collar, bracelet, and brooch, or take it out when they want to wear the ornament.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2016 and finished in April 2016 in China, and was invited to exhibite in VOD Jewelry Exhibition in April 2016 in Dubai.
- Specifications
- Necklace: W 175mm, L 175mm, H 30mm Bracelet: W 60mm, L 65mm, H 30mm Brooch: W 30mm, L 68mm, H 10mm
- Keywords
- jade, jewellery, flexible
