Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae by Yuji Yanagisawa

Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae by Yuji Yanagisawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Luminarium Competition Category.

AesLuminaria· 2022

Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae

by Yuji Yanagisawa

Client: Yuji Yanagisawa Design Inc

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Luminaria Category

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The Design

About Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae

Tomori Aid est instrumentum illuminationis complicabile quod lucernam manualem in lanternam mollem convertit. Hoc instrumentum ex charta cartonata factum est et structura simplici ac modis simplicibus affigendi componitur. Quaelibet lucerna manualis magnitudinis aptae adhiberi potest, ita ut lucerna deficiens alia substitui possit. Cum complicatum est, Tomori Aid intra magnitudinem A4 continetur et facile in sacculo ad calamitates praeparato fertur. Cum compositum est, lanterna 260 mm altitudine et 170 mm in quolibet latere metitur. Consilium ad usum in evacuatione et in vita cotidiana domestica destinatum est.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Tomori Aid Apparatus Lucernae necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: It is a lighting kit that changes the light of a linear LED flashlight into the light of a soft lantern born from the designer's own evacuation experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: When folded:H260mm x W180mm
When assembled:H260mm x W170mm D170mm
Tags: lantern, light, sustainable, prevention, flashlight, eco-friendly, disaster,
Production Technology: Tomori Aid is a collapsible lighting kit made of cardboard. Easy to assemble with simple structures and fixing methods, any flashlight of the right size can be turned into a lantern. It is designed to fit in A4 size when folded and is easy to carry. If one flashlight fails, you can substitute another flashlight, so you don't have to worry about lighting when you need it.
Design Challenge: It has both "portability that can be carried in a disaster prevention bag when evacuating" and "design that makes you want to decorate", and it is designed that it can be used as both a daily light and a light when a natural disaster strikes.
Research: During a power outage cause of a typhoon in Japan, the method of putting a PET bottle filled with water was spreading in news and SNS. So I realized that there was an urgent need to have an indirect light like a lantern, even though they had a flashlight, at the actual site, and started development to improve it.
Inspiration: When evacuating to a shelter due to typhoon damage in Japan, I've experienced the difference between imagination and reality. So I've developed Tomori Aid to solve problems by design when a natural disaster strikes.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2019 in Tokyo and finished in February 2021.
Operation Flow: Based on the designer's own evacuation experience, in order to solve the problems of power outages and lights at evacuation shelters, it has ben achieved both portability that is useful during evacuation and design that can be used in daily life.