Free and Easy Şevalet by Industrial Design College in LAFA

Free and Easy Şevalet by Industrial Design College in LAFA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Fier in Articole de Artă Competition Category.

FierArticole de Artă· 2020

Free and Easy Şevalet

by Industrial Design College in LAFA

Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award de Fier Winner in Articole de Artă Category

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The Design

About Free and Easy Şevalet

Free and Easy este un șevalet conceput pentru ateliere mici, săli de clasă pentru artă și schițare în aer liber. Șevaletele triunghiulare obișnuite ocupă spațiu în timpul depozitării și transportului și blochează vizibilitatea dintre artiști și profesori. Free and Easy are o formă plată și compactă atunci când este pliat, ceea ce economisește spațiu și reduce costurile de transport. Cadrul este realizat din lemn și plastic tehnic din nailon, cu elemente de fixare metalice și magneți. Două roți din plastic ajustează înălțimea planșetei de desen. Un capac de cutie combinat cu o paletă păstrează instrumentele de pictură la îndemână.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fier

Free and Easy Şevalet a câștigat A' Design Award de Fier, o recunoaștere prestigioasă acordată designurilor bune care îndeplinesc cerințele profesionale și industriale așteptate de la creații bine concepute. Câștigătorii Fierului demonstrează mare pricepere, înaltă specializare, înțelegere de specialitate și capacitate creativă din partea creatorilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Free and Easy Şevalet să fie o creație foarte apreciată, admirată și prețuită, practică și inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Fier integrează cele mai bune practici din industrie și are caracteristici tehnice competente îmbinate cu know-how și talent. Pentru acuratețea sa, Free and Easy Şevalet merită respect și este conceput pentru a aduce îmbunătățiri ale calității vieții care ajută la facerea lumii un loc mai bun.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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