Free and Easy イーゼル by Industrial Design College in LAFA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 画材・文房具デザイン Competition Category.
鉄画材· 2020
Free and Easy イーゼル
by Industrial Design College in LAFA
Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 画材 Category
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About Free and Easy イーゼル
「Free and Easy」は、小規模なアトリエ、美術教室、屋外スケッチのために設計されたイーゼルです。一般的な三脚型イーゼルは収納時や運搬時に場所を取り、さらに描き手と指導者との間の視線を遮ってしまいます。「Free and Easy」は折り畳むと平らでコンパクトな形状になるため、省スペースであると同時に輸送コストも削減できます。フレームは木材とナイロン系エンジニアリングプラスチックで構成され、金属製の留め具とマグネットを備えています。2つの樹脂製ホイールにより画板の高さを調節できます。ボックスの蓋を兼ねたパレットによって、画材をいつでもすぐ手の届く場所に置いておけます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Free and Easy イーゼルは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Free and Easy イーゼルは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Free and Easy イーゼルは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Free and Easy is a new type of easel design, presenting more possibilities, so as to meet the needs of consumers in a variety of use scenarios, such as small studio of SOHO crowd, outdoor sketch, classroom application of art class, etc. It is easy to pull and carry, fitting for the car trunk, also convenient for outdoor sketching and stable when being used. It is convenience for assembly and transportation, flat and neat shape in storage, space saving and greatly reducing transportation cost.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 560mm x Depth 100mm x Height 1300mm
- Tags
- Redesign, Easel, Usability, Portability, Light
- Production Technology
- The frame of the easel is made of two materials, one is made of wood, the other is made of nylon engineering plastic. It also has metal fasteners and magnets as accessories.
- Design Challenge
- In the process of lightweight easel design, based on ergonomics and guided by the design concept of product design, the designer combines the manufacturer's production demand with the user's use demand to conduct a comprehensive analysis and research on the structure, function, material, user interaction and other aspects of the easel. The challenge of our design is that we cannot find a reasonable way in it’s appearance which is satisfying in function at the beginning. After a certain number of sketching and discussing of our project, we finally find the proper selection which achieves the desired effect.
- Research
- As an important part of painting tools, easel is an indispensable tool for every painting enthusiast and professional workers. By observing the market of painting supplies, you can easily find that the renewal and iteration of painting related products are very slow, many painting products lack of revolutionary ideas and product upgrading. Based on the market research and field visit of easel, designers puts forward a solutions, that is Free and Easy , to the existing problems of easel products from the perspective of productization.
- Inspiration
- At present, similar easels waste a lot of space for gathering and storage, inconvenient transportation and cost increase, especially for schools and arts studios. Also, during using time, the existing triangle easels block space, is really affects the sight artists and tutorship of teachers. Free and Easy is a solution for these problems and also can be used in outdoor sketching. It is really easy for users to curry with and also has reasonable space for color palette and painting tools.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2019 in LAFA Communal Facility Design Studio and finished in January 2020 in National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA.
- Operation Flow
- When users want to raise the height of their drawing board, they only need to adjust the left and right plastic wheels used to control the bracket. Picture box cover plate and color palette combined in one of the design not only save space but also makes users more easier in taking their placed painting material. On the support bar of the easel, the position limit Angle of the u-shaped metal clip is placed on the top of the support bar.
- Team Members
- Designer: Xue Wenkai
Designer: Li Tingyu
Designer: Xue Bomu
Designer: Du Heli
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