Tangram 珠宝系列 by Juan Juan Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 珠宝设计 Competition Category.

铜珠宝· 2020

Tangram 珠宝系列

by Juan Juan Hu

Client: Zhejiang Ming Jewelry Co.,Ltd.

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 珠宝 Category

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The Design

About Tangram 珠宝系列

《七巧板》是一套由七枚独立吊坠与链条配件组成的珠宝系列。该系列提供了灵活多变的佩戴方式：每枚吊坠既可单独佩戴，也可通过链条配件与其他吊坠相互连接，让佩戴者自由组合出丰富多样的造型。七种色彩取自彩虹的颜色。设计灵感源自七巧板——一种由七块拼板组成的亚洲传统益智玩具。作品以18K金制作，将3D打印技术与珐琅手工艺相结合，保留了3D打印形成的表面纹路与肌理，并与彩色珐琅相映成趣。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Tangram 珠宝系列是 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Tangram 珠宝系列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。Tangram 珠宝系列出色地满足需求，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: Tangram jewelry collection presents flexible manners of wearing, solving the problem of unchangeable jewelry forms. It can form interesting creative interactions with wearers. The collection has variability in function and flexibility in combination, which is also beneficial to consumers. This collection is made of seven single pendants and chain accessories. The seven single pieces could be worn as a single part. Also they could be connected to different pendants by chain accessories. The industrial technology of 3D printing and the technique of enamel handcraft are integrated in this collection. It's a very good combination of industrial technology, Asian aesthetics and handcraft, greatly improving the working efficiency of jewelry processing workshop.
Dimensions & Packaging: Package: Length 160mm x Width 160mm x Heigh 50mm
Tags: tangram, function, flexibility, enamel handcraft,3d Printing，interactive
Production Technology: The material used for this collection is 18k gold. The industrial technology of 3D printing and the technique of enamel handcraft are integrated. The lines and texture on the surface formed by 3D printing are retained, coupled with the colored enamel craft, making the coloring well matched with the texture formed by industrial machining.
Design Challenge: The creativity of multiple and flexible wearing method is a great challenge. The combination of connection structure, handcraft and new technology is a creative way in making process. Also it's an extraordinary balance of Asian traditional culture and contemporary style.
Research: Pendants are often designed in a fixed form in the jewelry industry. The Tangram series are inspired by tangram, a Asian educational toy. Designer has designed seven individual units to be structured in different number and manners into different pendants. The wearer can wear only one pendant as needed, or structure two or three units into the one they like. The process is interactive and playful. In brief, the series provides an interesting interaction between the wearers and the jewelry.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from Tangram. Tangram is a traditional intelligence toy of ancient China, helping, with seven pieces of puzzles, to make various shapes, including figures, animals, alphabets and other elements, which are constantly changing and vivid, where this collection of Tangram jewelry is originated under such creative inspiration.
Project Duration: The project started in Oct. 2018 and finished in Mar. 2019 in China
Operation Flow: The series of products may leave spaces for wearers to interact with jewelry. The jewelry collection is made of seven single pendants, necklace and bracelet accessories. The seven single pieces could be worn as a single part. Also they could be connected to different pendants by chain accessories. The color of this series is derived from the seven rainbow colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple. A unique, playful and colorful interaction could be created by the wearers themselves at their own wills.
Team Members: Juan Juan Hu