Free and Easy 画架 by Industrial Design College in LAFA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 美术与文具用品设计 Competition Category.
铁美术用品· 2020
Free and Easy 画架
by Industrial Design College in LAFA
Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 美术用品 Category
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About Free and Easy 画架
"轻松自在"是一款专为小型工作室、美术教室及户外写生设计的画架。常见的三角形画架在收纳与运输时占用空间，且会阻隔画者与教师之间的视线。"轻松自在"折叠后呈扁平紧凑的形态，既节省空间，又降低了运输成本。框架采用木材与尼龙工程塑料制成，配以金属紧固件和磁铁。两个塑料滚轮可调节画板高度。集收纳盒盖与调色板于一体的设计，让绘画工具随手可取。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铁奖
Free and Easy 画架是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Free and Easy 画架将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Free and Easy 画架因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。
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
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