Lotus Date Recorder Chinthu Chogwiritsira Ntchito Chachikulu: Kachangu kolendewera by Mana Khaloo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Mphoto ya Chitsulo ya A' Design Award in Mapangidwe a Zodzikongoletsa Competition Category.
ChitsuloZodzikongoletsa· 2023
Lotus Date Recorder Chinthu Chogwiritsira Ntchito Chachikulu: Kachangu kolendewera
by Mana Khaloo
Client: Anabell Jewelry
Mphoto ya Chitsulo ya A' Design Award Winner in Zodzikongoletsa Category
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About Lotus Date Recorder Chinthu Chogwiritsira Ntchito Chachikulu: Kachangu kolendewera
Mawu a M'buku: Lotus Date Recorder ndi kachangu kolendewera kamene kamasunga tsiku lapadera. Kapangidwe kake kali ndi masamba ang'onoang'ono 31 osonyeza masiku ndiponso mawonekedwe a marquise 12 osonyeza miyezi. Chizindikiro chagolide pa tsamba limodzi ndi pa marquise imodzi chimasonyeza tsiku losankhidwa, lomwe limawerengedwa kutsatira mayendedwe a wotchi. Kachangu kameneka ndi kokutidwa ndi golide wapinki (rose gold) ndipo kali ndi kukula kwa 50 mpaka 50 mpaka 2.5 millimeters. Mapangidwe ake adalimbikitsidwa ndi zidzankha za m'makutu zochokera ku Ufumu wa Achaemenid, zochokera pa duwa la lotus losemedwa pa makoma ku Persepolis. Duwa la lotus linali chizindikiro cha moyo wosatha ndipo limaimira dzuwa komanso miyezi khumi ndi iwiri ya chaka.
The Recognition
About the Mphoto ya Chitsulo ya A' Design Award
Lotus Date Recorder Chinthu Chogwiritsira Ntchito Chachikulu: Kachangu kolendewera ndi mmodzi mwa opambana a Mphoto ya Chitsulo ya A' Design Award, kuzindikirika kolemekezeka komwe kumaperekedwa kwa mapangidwe abwino omwe amakwaniritsa zofunika za akatswiri ndi za makampani zomwe zimayembekezeka kuchokera ku zolengedwa zopangidwa bwino. Opambana a Chitsulo amaonetsa luso lalikulu, ukatswiri wapamwamba, kumvetsetsa kwa akatswiri ndi mphamvu yolenga ya opanga awo. Lotus Date Recorder Chinthu Chogwiritsira Ntchito Chachikulu: Kachangu kolendewera akuyembekezeka kukhala cholengedwa choyamikiridwa kwambiri, chosirira ndi chokondedwa chomwe ndi chothandiza ndi chatsopano. Mapangidwe opambana Mphoto ya Chitsulo ya A' Design Award awa amaphatikiza machitidwe abwino kwambiri a makampani ndipo ali ndi makhalidwe a ukadaulo oyenerera olumikizidwa ndi chidziwitso ndi luso. Lotus Date Recorder Chinthu Chogwiritsira Ntchito Chachikulu: Kachangu kolendewera amalemekezedwa chifukwa cha kusamala kwake ndipo anapangidwa kuti apereke kukonza kwa moyo kumene kumathandiza kusandutsa dziko kukhala malo abwino.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Lotus collection is rare since it records special dates. All the collection's necklaces are similar in their basic form, but they are unique, as they each show a specific date. There are 31 small petals as the days, and 12 marquises to indicate the months. You will be gifted by your own date keeper. A gold marking on the picked petal and marquise corresponds to show the desired date. The date is read clockwise. The recorded date on the pendant shown as the main image is Oct 7th (My Birthday).
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This gold pendant is rose gold plated in dimension of : length 50 mm x Width 50 mm x Height 2.5mm. The gold piece of jewelry weighs 20 grams, including 30 petal-shaped gems and 11 emerald marquise gems in the size of 8 mm.
- Tags
- jewelry, date recorder, calendar, pendant, design, lotus, achaemenid, culture, interaction
- Production Technology
- Pencil sketches,Adobe Illustrator,3D Modeling
- Design Challenge
- Rearranging the petals in a way to correspond to the number of days and months while keeping the original form of the Achaemenid lotus earrings was challenging , deciding on what colors could be felt more as real lotus flower while representing the Iranian nobility was another challenge.
- Research
- Spending a long time to find the conceptual aspect and symbolic meaning of the twelve-petaled rosette, it was decided to rearrange the petals in Achaemenid earrings the way that represent the 31 days of a month, and the 12 months of a year in order to be able to record the date of a special event.
- Inspiration
- The matchless pendant is inspired by the set of earrings from the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, that is now being exhibited in the Louver museum. The shape of these earrings is taken from the twelve-petaled rosette, based on the lotus flower that is engraved on almost all walls in Persepolis. This flower was the symbol of immortality and perpetual beneficence, and also embodies the sun and the twelve months of the year. That had been held by an emperor, as a sign of peace and union and a symbol of Anahita, the goddess of water and wisdom in the ancient Persian empire.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2019 in Shiraz/Iran. The first production of the collection in silver was exhibited in Mehregan Exhibition, Tehran/Iran in Oct 2019.
- Operation Flow
- I personally believe an intelligent design is about creating an art that stays in mind. Having a magnificent symbolic background, the lotus pendant tells a meaningful story of time.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
Image #2: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
Image #3: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
Image #4: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
Image #5: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
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