Empty 卡盒 by Song Liu and Lei Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 美術用品設計 Competition Category.

鐵美術用品· 2020

Empty 卡盒

by Song Liu and Lei Wang

Client: Rongqi

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 美術用品 Category

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The Design

About Empty 卡盒

名片盒的設計創造了一個負形，以展示產品的核心－名片；人們可以用雙拇指的方式輕鬆地將名片推出並傳遞給對方；參數化設計用於公平地創建主表面。名片尺寸符合亞洲、歐洲、美洲標準名片。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Empty 卡盒是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Empty 卡盒將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Empty 卡盒因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design of the name card case creates a negative shape in order to show the core of the product-name card; People can easily push the name card out and pass it to the other side by using double thumbs in manner;Parametric design is used to create the main surface fairly.The size of the name card meets the Asia, Europe, American standard name card.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 50 mm× Depth 15× Height 120 for physical products.
Weight 0.031kg.
Tags: empty, card case, parametric design
Production Technology: This product is manufactured by die-casting molding using the aviation alloy material , and CNC precision milling processing molding. The surface is processed through sandblasting, oxidation.
Design Challenge: In this project development, it was a big challenge to popularize parametric tools to the design team. Persuading the design team to use a new tool can feel like a drag on the overall project. But after learning about the new tools and the new ways of working mode brought by the new tools, we got the support of the whole team.
Research: In the design of this product, we studied the application of parametric design in the product. We used grasshopper, a plug-in of Rhino software as our main tool. The introduction of parametric design improves the efficiency of communication between designers and increases the speed of design iteration.In the design of "empty" business card case, the main surface of the product adopts parametric diamond-shaped stereogram, which decreases from the edge to the middle. Firstly, its unique mathematical beauty enhances the visual recognition of products. Secondly, the gradual change decoration pattern with rhythmic sense makes people can't help touching it, which increases the tactile experience of the product. The three-dimensional decoration pattern has directivity, which provides the basic functional coordinates for the product.
Inspiration: The design of the name card box breaks the feeling of mediocrity and cheap, let the ordinary things have a decent body. In the Internet Ages, using a name transfer ceremony and boundary information than the online social app, also have better information integrity. While the name card box have the DNA of internet which put the information in the first place. The design of this pen display the industrial beauty.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2017 in Beijing and finished in September 2018 in Beijing.
Operation Flow: One side of the top of the business card box is the movable shaft, which can be opened by the user to put their business card into. The other side is a fixed part with the same shape. User can easily push the name card out and pass it to the other side by using double thumbs in manner.
Team Members: Song Liu.
Lei Wang.