Yunlai 찻잔 by Siyu Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 동상 in 순수 예술 및 예술 설치 디자인 Competition Category.
동순수 예술· 2021
Yunlai 찻잔
by Siyu Liu
Client: Chowan
A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 순수 예술 Category
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About Yunlai 찻잔
윈라이(雲來) 컵은 중국 광저우의 핫글라스 공방에서 수작업으로 제작된 작품이다. 중국어로 '윈라이(雲來)'는 구름이 서서히 피어오르는 모습을 뜻한다. 이 디자인은 초후형 글라스 프릿(유리 분말)과 고온 샌드블라스팅 기법을 전통 산수화 속 구름의 여백과 결합하는 연구에서 출발했다. 디자이너는 유선형 디자인에 인체공학적 요소도 고려하여, 손바닥이 닿는 자연스러운 접촉면과 파지 각도를 유기적으로 결합하였다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 동상
Yunlai 찻잔, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 동상 수상작으로, 창의성, 독창성, 영민함으로 돋보이는 뛰어난 디자인에 수여되는 높은 권위의 인정입니다. 동상 수상작은 충분히 숙련되고 인상적으로 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 폭넓은 경험, 상상력, 기지를 입증합니다. Yunlai 찻잔, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 사물로서 두드러지게 전문적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 동상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 모범 사례를 담고 있으며 세부에 대한 주의로 훌륭합니다. Yunlai 찻잔, 이 작품은 필요를 훌륭하게 충족하고 욕망에 닿으며 감정을 매료하고 호기심을 불러일으킵니다.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Yunlai cup is made by handmade glass workshop.
It is a design that combines humanities and arts with daily functions. Its design language comes from simulating the flowing cloud lines formed by the natural transpiration of the unique green landscape in the mid-latitude inland of the Northern Hemisphere.
At the same time, it takes into account ergonomic considerations in the streamlined design and organically combines cloud modeling with the natural contact of palm and the angle of finger holding. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Maximum width 68mm x Depth 52 mm x Height 51 mm
- Tags
- glass, Yunlai, tea, drinking
- Production Technology
- The material used in this product is heat-resistant glass. It used the technology of extra-thick glass-frit and high temperature sandblasting to achieve the visual result of 70% light transmittance. It was blown out in the hot workshop of the glass studio.
- Design Challenge
- Although I found glass, a material that can convey ethereal oriental beauty, However, the biggest challenge is that too transparent materials are difficult to convey the concepts of blank space and invisibility in oriental aesthetics. Therefore, we continue to negotiate with the glass studio to finally obtain an inner wall thicker than ordinary glasses and make the surface reach 70% light transmittance through high-temperature sandblasting process.
- Research
- My research goal has always been promoting cross-cultural understanding by innovating the relationship between people and daily objects. Yunlai in Chinese means that clouds slowly rise from mountain forests, which is a portrayal of the natural landscape in most inland hilly areas of China. In order to achieve this goal, I spent a long time visiting glass handicraft studios and factories all over China to study the craft of hand-blown glass.
- Inspiration
- The design inspiration comes from the research on hand-blown extra-thick glass frit and high-temperature sandblasting technology, as well as observing and recording for many years and depicting the unique cloud form in inland hilly areas of the Northern Hemisphere and the visual relationship between blank space in landscape painting, combined with high-temperature sandblasting technology, the light can form soft refraction lines at different angles during use, thus reflecting this humanistic and artistic feeling from a specific geographical environment.
- Project Duration
- The project was launched in Guangzhou, China in January 2020 and finished in June 2020. It was exhibited and included in Tmall's original design list and was sold online in September 2020.
- Operation Flow
- It is suitable for a variety of daily life scenes, like for drinking beverages with various temperatures, alcohol contents, and traditional Kung Fu tea. While using it, it can observe the light and shadow refraction like invisible swimming clouds from different angles.
Its shape also provides a suitable experience for human hands to grasp. Glass can be washed in the dishwasher. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Siyu Liu, 2020.
- Image Credits
- Image #1 : Photographer Siyu Liu
Image #2 : Photographer Siyu Liu
Image #3 : Photographer Siyu Liu
Image #4 : Photographer Siyu Liu
Image #5 : Photographer Siyu Liu
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