Wowo 多功能座椅 by Wei Jingye / 魏靖野 is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

铜家具· 2024

Wowo 多功能座椅

by Wei Jingye / 魏靖野

Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Wowo 多功能座椅

WOWO是一组专为有宠物陪伴的家庭打造的多功能座椅家具。其圆润的造型灵感源自孩童念出"wowo"一词时嘴型所形成的形状。高饱和度的色彩与镂空结构赋予座椅活泼灵动的性格。支撑部件采用实木原色,以机器切割成型并经手工打磨完成。主体部分运用3D打印工艺及磁吸装配结构,便于运输。这组座椅适用于阅读、品茶与休憩等多种场景。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Wowo 多功能座椅是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Wowo 多功能座椅将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Wowo 多功能座椅出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This group of furniture comes from the mouth shape when children say wowo. By refining the high saturation color and mellow shape, combined with a special hollow structure，it evolved into a colorful, playful and flexible seat form. The support part of this group of furniture is made of solid wood, and the main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure.
Dimensions & Packaging: 800 mm x 750 mm x 950 mm, 640 mm x 550 mm x 800 mm, The solid wood of the supporting structure is processed and formed by machine cutting and manual grinding. The main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure. It is assembled and formed, convenient for transportation and high modeling freedom.
Tags: Color, Children, Multipurpose, Pet friendly, Leisure time
Production Technology: The supporting structure of the product is made of solid wood in primary color, which adopts modern numerical control technology and is formed by machine cutting and manual grinding. The main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure.
Design Challenge: Seeking a balance between humans and pets in furniture usage, increase the sense of strength of products when looking for round and lovely shapes, and control the use of colors when matching beautiful colors, so as to make them warm, lovely and not messy.
Research: This research starts from the multi-function of furniture. Seeking a balance between humans and pets in furniture usage. Suitable for families with pets, especially those with cats, to create a lively and warm family atmosphere.
Inspiration: The design takes product semantics of elliptic as the inspiration source. By refining the high saturation color and mellow shape, it evolved into a colorful, playful and flexible seat form. This group of furniture is round and childlike innocence, which achieves good interaction between people and pets, and the bright color makes the indoor environment quite pleasant.
Project Duration: The design had started in Shenyang in January 2023, completed in Shenyang in June 2023, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2023.
Operation Flow: It is suitable for leisure and entertainment. It can sit with feet hanging or knees bent. Whether it is reading, drinking tea or rest and play, this design bring users a sense of safety and comfort. At the same time, the round shape and beautiful colors can also be used for interior decoration.
Team Members: Wei Jingye
Song Kexin
Zheng Xiaolei
Zhou Haoyuan