Perak Aksesori · 2024
Barebag Series Prostetik Bergaya
by Ke Zheng and Shuhao Xuanyuan
- A' Design Award Perak 2024 in Aksesori
- CLIENT: BareBag
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 187,323
- Verification code 9D739E358F · Verify this award
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About Barebag Series Prostetik Bergaya
BareBag ialah siri aksesori boleh pakai yang direka untuk individu dengan penggunaan terhad pada lengan atau tangan mereka, seperti mereka yang mengalami kecederaan atau amputasi. Cangkuk anti-ayun BareBag yang direkabentuk secara inovatif disepadukan dengan sempurna ke dalam aksesori bergaya, membolehkan pengguna menggantung sebarang beg di pinggang mereka tanpa menggunakan tangan. Teknologi ButterSlide-nya juga membolehkan pengguna melaraskan tali dengan mudah menggunakan sebelah tangan sahaja. BareBag menawarkan cara pintar untuk meningkatkan kebebasan dan meningkatkan kualiti hidup penggunanya.
About the A' Design Award Perak
Barebag Series Prostetik Bergaya ialah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengiktirafan yang sangat berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk bertaraf tinggi, indah dan mengagumkan. Pemenang Perak ialah karya yang amat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan kepakaran, bakat dan ketajaman fikiran yang luar biasa pereka bentuknya. Barebag Series Prostetik Bergaya diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, contoh teladan, sangat profesional dan sangat inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini ialah ciptaan yang sangat ketara dan dikagumi yang memberi manfaat kepada dan memajukan batas seni, sains, reka bentuk dan teknologi. Barebag Series Prostetik Bergaya ialah ciptaan yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif dan mencetuskan rasa hairan serta kagum.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- BareBag represents a universal, integrated solution for limited mobility and functionality for the millions of upper limb injured/amputees, who often struggle to carry their belongings and perform daily tasks with one hand. With versatile bag hooks integrated into cross-body fashion accessories, users can comfortably carry all types of bags at their waist hands-free. By solving a universal problem of busy hands, BareBag promotes social equity and improves the life quality for its users.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- BareBag: 135mm x 50mm x 90mm
BareBag Nano: 120mm x 12mm x 70mm - Tags
- Bag, Prosthetic, Fashion, Lifestyle, Assistive, Wallet, Amputee, Inclusive, Adaptive
- Production Technology
- BareBag is modularly assembled with a soft leather exterior and hard 3D-printed recycled PLA hook prosthetics. The modularity allows quick adaptation to configuration, and separate cleaning and recycling at the end of its life cycle. Its sustainable rPET strap is equipped with a 3D-printed slider specially engineered to enable smooth adjustment with one hand.
- Design Challenge
- The two main challenges during BareBag's development are maintaining the balance and stability of both BareBag and the carried bags, and inventing a strap slider mechanism for smooth one-hand adjustment. The wide-body hooks minimize bag-swinging or escaping while allowing the bag to slide in easily. BareBag's slider is re-engineered with a butterfly locking mechanism that allows the user to unlock with a simple pull, effortlessly adjust with one hand, and lock with a simple pinch. We iterated more than 50 prototypes to perfect the user experience.
- Research
- BareBag is a novel integration that differentiates itself from both fashion accessories and prosthetics. The research for active annual demand from disabled users resulted in more than 3.77 million people in the US alone. BareBag's development went through a 6-month user testing phase with more than 50 prototypes, optimizing the reliability, stability, ease of use, aesthetics, and sustainability.
- Inspiration
- BareBag started with a bike accident that broke one of its founder's arms. This sudden shift in life quality made him realize how inconvenient it is to do everything with only one hand. Especially when doing dumb labor like carrying bags, he had no hands to even use a phone. However, all the bag carriers on the market are bulky and make the user's disability more visible. BareBag's mission is then set to be an everyday fashion accessory that imperceptively becomes the user's additional hand.
- Project Duration
- BareBag started in January 2023 in New York City and finished in December 2023 in New York City
- Operation Flow
- By putting BareBag on like a cross-body bag, it blends into your style while being a prosthetic. With only one hand, unlock the strap slider by folding it up, and effortlessly slide it to adjust the strap length to fit your body. When you have bags to carry, simply hook the bag onto the integrated hook and let it grab the bags for you at waist level comfortably and stably, so your hands can be free to do more.
