Tomori Aid 灯笼套件 by Yuji Yanagisawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 照明產品及燈具設計 Competition Category.

銅照明· 2022

Tomori Aid 灯笼套件

by Yuji Yanagisawa

Client: Yuji Yanagisawa Design Inc

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 照明 Category

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The Design

About Tomori Aid 灯笼套件

Tomori Aid係一個可摺叠嘅照明套件，可以將手電筒變成柔和嘅灯笼。呢個套件用紙板制成，結構簡單，固定方法亦好簡易。任何合適尺寸嘅手電筒都可以使用，如果手電筒壞咗，仲可以隨時更換另一個。摺埋嗰陣，Tomori Aid嘅大小啱好放入A4紙咁大嘅空間，方便放入防災袋隨身携带。組裝好之後，呢個灯笼高260毫米，每邊闇170毫米。呢個設計係為咗喺疏散逃生時同日常家居生活中使用而構思嘅。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Tomori Aid 灯笼套件是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Tomori Aid 灯笼套件將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Tomori Aid 灯笼套件出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: It is a lighting kit that changes the light of a linear LED flashlight into the light of a soft lantern born from the designer's own evacuation experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: When folded:H260mm x W180mm
When assembled:H260mm x W170mm D170mm
Tags: lantern, light, sustainable, prevention, flashlight, eco-friendly, disaster,
Production Technology: Tomori Aid is a collapsible lighting kit made of cardboard. Easy to assemble with simple structures and fixing methods, any flashlight of the right size can be turned into a lantern. It is designed to fit in A4 size when folded and is easy to carry. If one flashlight fails, you can substitute another flashlight, so you don't have to worry about lighting when you need it.
Design Challenge: It has both "portability that can be carried in a disaster prevention bag when evacuating" and "design that makes you want to decorate", and it is designed that it can be used as both a daily light and a light when a natural disaster strikes.
Research: During a power outage cause of a typhoon in Japan, the method of putting a PET bottle filled with water was spreading in news and SNS. So I realized that there was an urgent need to have an indirect light like a lantern, even though they had a flashlight, at the actual site, and started development to improve it.
Inspiration: When evacuating to a shelter due to typhoon damage in Japan, I've experienced the difference between imagination and reality. So I've developed Tomori Aid to solve problems by design when a natural disaster strikes.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2019 in Tokyo and finished in February 2021.
Operation Flow: Based on the designer's own evacuation experience, in order to solve the problems of power outages and lights at evacuation shelters, it has ben achieved both portability that is useful during evacuation and design that can be used in daily life.