Flaneur 珠寶系列 by Qiuyu Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 珠寶設計 Competition Category.

銅珠寶· 2020

Flaneur 珠寶系列

by Qiuyu Yang

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 珠寶 Category

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The Design

About Flaneur 珠寶系列

Flaneur係一個將個人行動數據轉化為可佩戴形態嘅珠寶系列。每件作品都將喺城市中記錄嘅步行路線轉化為立體形狀，令每位佩戴者都能擁有獨一無二嘅設計。呢個系列採用三維打印技術製作，並使用貴金屬同蛋白石。蛋白石隨光線變化嘅色彩，呼應住倫敦（呢個系列嘅靈感起點城市）晝夜交替嘅城市生活。Flaneur讓人們能夠將每日嘅行程同旅途化為恆久嘅記錄。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Flaneur 珠寶系列是 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Flaneur 珠寶系列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。Flaneur 珠寶系列出色地滿足需求，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: Flaneur jewellery collection offer those people who are enthusiastic for life, an opportunity to see their everyday urban life reflected directly from data visualization. In effect making treasure from their experiential millennial lifestyle. Using London as the pilot city flaneur jewellery collection can be rolled out across global cities and allows mobile urbanites to build a collection of jewellery that creates a innovative record of their life and travels.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 61mm x Depth 70mm x Height 14mm
Width 83.5mm x Depth 78mm x Height 24mm
Width 76mm x Depth 80mm x Height 30mm
Width 40mm x Depth 32.5mm x Height 14mm
Tags: big data, data visualisation, 3D print, day to day lives, route, London
Production Technology: 3D jewellery forms are designed to present 2D data visualisation manufactured through a 3D print technique, so that every individual has an opportunity to wear unique jewellery. Precious metal and opals are used in the collection. The colourful reflection in opals represents the colourful day and the night life of London.
Design Challenge: 1. In mass market, it is a new concept to combine big data and daily life events as an inspiration.
2. For narrative jewellery embedded with people’s own life track meaning, it has not been widely accepted by the public. Therefore, the operation mode still needs to be improved.
3. Personalised customer service is not a rapid marketing business model, which needs certain cost in time.
4. Castable resin is not an universally available material in 3D print field world-widely; therefore it might cause difficulty during the production process.
Research: Primary research step 1, exploring routes, surveys, street interviews, questionnaire, over 100 women living in London, 63% of women have ecorded their walking route in the past, women are free to walk in the city like a flaneur, the project has a big market.
Primary research step 2, collecting routes, interviews, one to one interviews, email, over 30 women living and recording their walking route in London, near 50% of women's route have regular shape due to their living habit, the design form can be meaningful to the clients.
Primary research step 3, recoding routes, outdoor activities, one to one interviews, Nike+ app, 6 women living and recording their walking route in London, the route become the design reference.
Secondary Research, explore London daily lives culture, online research and outdoor activities, walking around, camera and dairies, colourful day and the night life, the London life culture become the stone choice reference.
Contextual Research step 1, background research of urbanisation, online researching book reading,URL and books, urbanisation over recent 200 years is recognised as the most important process.
Contextual Research step 2, background research of Flaneur, online researching book reading,URL and books, 21th century, Flâneur was redefined. This kind of city stroll was no longer confined in Paris and has expanded in big cities worldwide without the restriction of identity class or gender. Women also can be a flaneur doing city walk.
Contextual Research step 3, background research of city walk, online researching book reading,URL and books, with the process of urbanisation, city walk as a most common city culture has risen inevitably.
Contextual Research step 4, three perspectives of artists and designers who doing data visualisation, narrative jewellery and 3D print products, online researching and interviews, email and internet, ”Dear Data”, Jack Cunningham and Malianghang, the project can use data visualization as a design form to create narrative jewellery by 3D print.
Inspiration: The revolution of big data is reshaping many aspects of daily lives at a global level. Much of the excitement around data streams is not their capture but what can now be done with the data. In parallel, the advent of rapid digital production has changed the jewellery landscape. Flaneur jewellery collection is a project explores how we live our daily lives, what this offers in terms of personal data and how we might start to think about what data to store or incorporate into our lives and in what way.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2015 in London and finished in June 2017 in London, and was published in Wallpaper Magazine in January 2018.
Operation Flow: Flaneur jewellery collection is the route of everyone's everyday life recorded in a piece that can be worn. Voicing out Big Data.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Qiuyu Yang, 2017.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yingwei Tang, Flaneur Jewellery Collection, 2017