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Mert Ali Bukulmez Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles in Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
Mert Ali Bukulmez acknowledged for fashion and travel accessories design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Fashion and Travel Accessories Design category for Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles by Mert Ali Bukulmez, designed for Nottingham Trent University. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles
Urbano is an innovative handle-bar & carrying bag for bikes. It aims to carry heavy weight with bikes comfortably, easy and safely in urban areas. The unique shape of the handle-bar provides space to fit the bag. The bag can be easily attached to handle-bar with the help of the hook and velcro bands. The placement of the bag generates advantages with driving experience which is much needed in urban areas. The bar is also designed to stabilize the bag that helps to give the better driving experience to the cyclist.
About Mert Ali Bukulmez
Aspiring and creative product design student dedicated to create for humans to assist and make their lives comfortable and healthy. Has a strong passion for design and compelling set of industrial design skills coupled with an exceptional sense of aesthetics, material knowledge and manufacturing techniques. Aims to build an emotional bridge between consumers through his designs. He believes that empathetic approach based on quality research process will lead to better design solutions and higher customer satisfaction.
Award Record
Mert Ali Bukulmez is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2019 - 2020 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fashion and Travel Accessories Design Award
The A' Accessory Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good accessory designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to accessory designers, fashion designers, travel accessory designers and luxury goods manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include handbags, scarves, belts, luggage, hats and travel bags. Awarded accessory designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/accessory
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/102952
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/102952
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!102952
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/272447
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles
- Function
- Handle Bar for Bicycles
- Category
- Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion and Luxury
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Gainsboro, Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Nottingham Trent University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mert Ali Bukulmez
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #102952
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Urbano is an innovative handle-bar & carrying bag for bikes. It aims to carry heavy weight with bikes comfortably, easy and safely in urban areas. The handle-bar is universal and can fit on to any kind of bicycle. The bar is also designed to stabilize the bag that helps to give the better driving experience to the cyclist.
- Inspiration
- The main inspiration of the project comes from urban life-style and its obstacles. With the growing world people are more tended to move to bigger cities and it causes congestion which causes delays in people's daily routines.The project aims to find a alternative solution for urban commuters. The brief is set up after the research process. Highly detailed research process supported with literature review, surveys and observational studies was the key point of the project.
- Research
- Quality literature review, an online survey, semi-structured interviews living in both London and Istanbul and an extensive observation studies are reported in submitted PDF documents. The deep research enabled me to set a design brief to apply a solution for the concerning problem.
- Challenge
- Observations in London was a bit hard because I had travel around all the city to determine the problems that urban commuters encountering. It was actually fun to take all the pictures and to actually see the problems however it was a bit tiring activity to walk around the city for days.
- Realization and Technology
- All the materials and production techniques are included in submitted pdf document.
- Operation and Interaction
- The handle-bar can be easily fitted on to any bike. The unique shape of the handle-bar provides space to fit the bag. The bag can be easily attached to handle-bar with the help of the hook and velcro bands. The placement of the bag generates advantages with driving experience. It allows much safer trip with weight balancing and also gives better control with the bike itself which is much needed in urban areas.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2018 in Nottingham Trent University. After 3 months of research process, the actual designing process started and lasted for two months. Project ended in May 2018 in Nottingham Trent University.
- Specifications
- The handle bar comes with multiple width options which depends on the shoulder width.
- Keywords
- Urban, Fashion, Bag, Bicycle, Handlebar
