Iron Jewelry · 2023
Sprout Proposal Ring
by Lianghao Zha
- A' Design Award 2023 in Jewelry
- CLIENT: Zha Lianghao Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 15,038
- Verification code C024B1C619 · Verify this award
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About Sprout Proposal Ring
Sprout is a proposal ring inspired by Tagore's poem and the designer proposed to his wife with it. It adopts an organic ring set with a single round brilliant cut diamond, which looks like a blooming flower in a naturally growing plant vine. The designer completes the design in 3D software, and uses a 3D printed wax mold to cast 18K gold. Finally, it is manually polished, and inlaid with a round diamond.
About the A' Design Award
Sprout Proposal Ring is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Sprout Proposal Ring is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Sprout Proposal Ring is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- Sprout is a proposal ring designed by the designer to propose to his wife. The designer hopes that this proposal ring can be very unique in design and have its own style. It adopts an organic ring set with a single round brilliant cut diamond. And it is produced using 3D printing and manual polishing. Simple and memorable.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 20 mm x 0.7 mm x 24 mm for physical product.
- Tags
- Jewelry, Diamond, Ring, Gold, Organic, timeless
- Production Technology
- The designer first uses 3D software to complete the design, then uses a 3D printed wax mold to cast 18K gold, then manually polished, and finally inlaid with high-quality diamond.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part in design and production is how to achieve organic and complex 3D shapes in such a small ring.
- Research
- Sprout is a ring designed by the designer to propose to his wife, and with the help of this unique ring, the proposal was successful.
- Inspiration
- Sprout is inspired by Tagore's poem, 'The spring flowers break out like the passive paint of unspoken love'. The designer vividly expresses the budding love in the poem, wrapping the diamond symbolizing eternal love with organic surface. It seems like there is a blooming flower in a naturally growing plant vine.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Jan 2021 in Shanghai and finished in June 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Wear it on the middle finger of the woman's left hand like an ordinary engagement ring.
