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Industrial Design College in LAFA Receives the A' Design Award for Free and Easy Easel in Art and Stationery Supplies Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Industrial Design College in LAFA for art and stationery supplies design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Free and Easy Easel by Industrial Design College in LAFA, designed for LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Art and Stationery Supplies Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 Free and Easy Easel
Free and Easy is an easel designed for small studios, art classrooms and outdoor sketching. Common triangular easels take up space during storage and transport and block the view between artists and teachers. Free and Easy has a flat and compact shape when folded, which saves space and reduces transport costs. The frame is made of wood and nylon engineering plastic, with metal fasteners and magnets. Two plastic wheels adjust the height of the drawing board. A combined box cover and palette keeps painting tools within easy reach.
About Industrial Design College in LAFA
Curriculum vitae Wenkai Xue, the director of National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA, a member of the China Artists Association, employed as a professor, vice-president and postgraduate tutor in The School of Industrial Design in LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, who has published a plenty of design works, papers, treatise, achievements and projects, now is working in the industrial design teaching research and design practice. Main works Design of Concept Voice Box has won the Golden Awards of the 1st LiaoNing Provence Arts and Designs. Public facility Series Design has nominated in The Concept Exhibition of Environment Facilities in Beijing Olympic Park.
Award Record
Industrial Design College in LAFA is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Art and Stationery Supplies Design Award
The A' Art Supplies Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing best art supplies by leading brands and manufacturers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to art supplies designers, stationery designers, industrial design studios and art supplies brands from all countries. Typical entries include brushes, paints, sketchbooks, pencils, pastels and easels. The awarded art supply designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/art-supplies
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/104183
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104183
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104183
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/169667
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Free and Easy Easel
- Function
- Easel
- Category
- Art and Stationery Supplies Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail and Arts
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Gray, Silver and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Industrial Design College in LAFA
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #104183
Credits
- Team
- Xue Wenkai, Li Tingyu, Xue Bomu and Du Heli
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Free and Easy is a new type of easel design, presenting more possibilities, so as to meet the needs of consumers in a variety of use scenarios, such as small studio of SOHO crowd, outdoor sketch, classroom application of art class, etc. It is easy to pull and carry, fitting for the car trunk, also convenient for outdoor sketching and stable when being used. It is convenience for assembly and transportation, flat and neat shape in storage, space saving and greatly reducing transportation cost.
- Inspiration
- At present, similar easels waste a lot of space for gathering and storage, inconvenient transportation and cost increase, especially for schools and arts studios. Also, during using time, the existing triangle easels block space, is really affects the sight artists and tutorship of teachers. Free and Easy is a solution for these problems and also can be used in outdoor sketching. It is really easy for users to curry with and also has reasonable space for color palette and painting tools.
- Research
- As an important part of painting tools, easel is an indispensable tool for every painting enthusiast and professional workers. By observing the market of painting supplies, you can easily find that the renewal and iteration of painting related products are very slow, many painting products lack of revolutionary ideas and product upgrading. Based on the market research and field visit of easel, designers puts forward a solutions, that is Free and Easy , to the existing problems of easel products from the perspective of productization.
- Challenge
- In the process of lightweight easel design, based on ergonomics and guided by the design concept of product design, the designer combines the manufacturer's production demand with the user's use demand to conduct a comprehensive analysis and research on the structure, function, material, user interaction and other aspects of the easel. The challenge of our design is that we cannot find a reasonable way in it’s appearance which is satisfying in function at the beginning. After a certain number of sketching and discussing of our project, we finally find the proper selection which achieves the desired effect.
- Realization and Technology
- The frame of the easel is made of two materials, one is made of wood, the other is made of nylon engineering plastic. It also has metal fasteners and magnets as accessories.
- Operation and Interaction
- When users want to raise the height of their drawing board, they only need to adjust the left and right plastic wheels used to control the bracket. Picture box cover plate and color palette combined in one of the design not only save space but also makes users more easier in taking their placed painting material. On the support bar of the easel, the position limit Angle of the u-shaped metal clip is placed on the top of the support bar.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2019 in LAFA Communal Facility Design Studio and finished in January 2020 in National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA.
- Specifications
- Width 560mm x Depth 100mm x Height 1300mm
- Keywords
- Redesign, Easel, Usability, Portability, Light
