Free and Easy Ea'e Vali by Industrial Design College in LAFA

Free and Easy Ea'e Vali by Industrial Design College in LAFA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mea Fa'aaoga Faatufugaga Competition Category.

UʻameaMea Fa'aaoga Faatufugaga· 2020

Free and Easy Ea'e Vali

by Industrial Design College in LAFA

Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Mea Fa'aaoga Faatufugaga Category

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The Design

About Free and Easy Ea'e Vali

Book Text: O le Free and Easy o se ea'e vali ua fuafuaina mo potu aoga vali laiti, potuaoga faatufugaga, ma le tusi ata i fafo. E masani ona nofo tele avanoa a ea'e tafatolu i le taimi o le teuina ma le felauaiga, ma poloka ai le vaaiga i le va o le tusiata ma le faiaoga. O le Free and Easy e mafolafola ma pu'upu'u lona foliga pe a gaugau, lea e faasaoina ai le avanoa ma faaitiitia tau felauaiga. O le fa'avaa e faia i le laupapa ma le palasitika enisinia nailoni, faatasi ai ma mea saisai uamea ma maneta. E lua uili palasitika e fuafua ai le maualuga o le laupapa tusiata. O se atigipusa tu'ufa'atasia ma le palate e taofia ai mea faigaluega vali i totonu o le lima taulaga.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Free and Easy Ea'e Vali, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina Free and Easy Ea'e Vali e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai Free and Easy Ea'e Vali ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

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