Planetary Ring 戒指 by Yan Li and Jiabin He

Planetary Ring 戒指 by Yan Li and Jiabin He is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 珠宝设计 Competition Category.

银珠宝· 2022

Planetary Ring 戒指

by Yan Li and Jiabin He

Client: Helio

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 珠宝 Category

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The Design

About Planetary Ring 戒指

行星环是一款以陨石材质打造的戒指。设计灵感源自Muonionalusta——一块在瑞典发现的铁陨石。陨石圆盘中心嵌入了一枚直径仅一毫米的微型轴承，因此圆盘会随佩戴者的动作而转动，宛如行星运转。表面保留了铁陨石经机械加工与酸蚀处理后呈现的天然纹理。陨石未做防氧化镀层处理，其质感会随时间流转而不断变化。支撑结构采用925银制成，并以无焊接工艺接合。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Planetary Ring 戒指是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Planetary Ring 戒指将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Planetary Ring 戒指是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Planetary Ring Meteorite Jewelry series includes rings and necklaces, which are originally designed by the jewelry brand of astronomical aesthetics HELIO. It is inspired by Swedish M meteorites – Muonionalustas which are the asteroids that fell on the earth with a history of billions of years.
It's cool to wear an asteroid fragment on your body. At the same time, as our body moves, it rotates like a planet with gravity and inertia. Unlike other jewelry, which is still, this design is alive.
Dimensions & Packaging: Product size: 18mm x 20mm x 20mm
Material: Swedish M meteorites – Muonionalustas and 925 silver
Tags: Jewelry, Meteorite, Planetary, Unisex, HELIO, Astronomical
Production Technology: The surface of the "planetary ring"retains the unique "Wedmanster Pattern"of M meteorite,which is generally considered to be a meteorite pattern that cannot be artificially imitated.The round meteorite material has no electroplating anti-oxidation treatment, and the long term wearing surface will produce an oxidation reaction, and the texture effect will change with time. The 925 silver support structure has no welding point with the meteorite and is linked with the bearing structure. The production, assembly, and after sales process are sustainable and eco-friendly.
Design Challenge: There are two challenges in the design of planetary rings.How to polish an iron meteorite into a standard oblate shape, and at the same time, make the surface appear wonderful “Wedmanster pattern”? Grinding into oblate shape by CNC machining, then washing the surface with strong sulfuric acid, causing natural corrosion and forming irregular lines.
How to realize the smooth rotation of meteorites and simulate the rotation of planets? A miniature bearing is embedded in the center of the meteorite, and the diameter of the bearing structure is only 1 mm.Only after precise assembly can smooth rotation be realized.
Research: The main design style of the brand "HELIO" is "unisex", and the cosmic celestial body is the intentional element that can best represent this design style. It is magnificent and mysterious, and the gender difference of human beings becomes small and meaningless under this scale.Through cooperation with The Meteorologic Society, we have studied a large number of meteorite materials composed of different mineral elements, and analyzed their characteristics and product feasibility. Factors include raw material cost, processing technology, environmental protection, safety, etc. and M meteorite in Sweden was selected.
Inspiration: The Planetary Ring Meteorite Jewelry series is specially designed for young people who travel through the city and yearn for the unknown. This series is made of Swedish M meteorite that fell on the earth billions of years ago, through the model of Planetary Ring and the structural design of bearing rotation, the asteroid is resurrected on the body, and shrunk by hundreds of millions of times.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2020 in Beijin and finished in October 2020 in Beijin, and was exhibited in Taobao in November 2020.
Operation Flow: This design is symbolic. Young people wear a meteorite like a planet on their hands, necks or other parts of their bodies, which is different from ordinary rings or necklaces, and expresses their belief in the universe and a supportive attitude of non-sexism.
Patents: COPYRIGHTS: Yan Li 2020
Number：2021-F-00007198
No：01226481
Team Members: Yan Li
Jiabin He
Image Credits: Image #1: Yan Li, Planetary Ring, 2020.
Image #2: Yan Li, Planetary Ring, 2020.
Image #3: Yan Li, Planetary Ring, 2020.
Image #4: Yan Li, Planetary Ring, 2020.
Image #5: Yan Li, Planetary Ring, 2020.
Video Credits: Yan Li, Planetary Ring, 2020.