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Ming Hsiu Lee and Hu Jui Chung Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Standly Bao Folding Chair in Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ming Hsiu Lee and Hu Jui Chung for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Standly Bao Folding Chair by Ming Hsiu Lee and Hu Jui Chung, designed for Ming-Hsiu Lee and Jui-Chung Hu, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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 Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Standly Bao Folding Chair
Standly Bao is a folding standing support chair for workers who must stand for long periods. The design holds the body in a balanced standing posture while allowing the same freedom of movement as standing. A three point pressure method fixes the hip, the knee and the foot, so stress on the lower limbs is reduced and poor posture is avoided. The user pulls out the frame, rests the knees on the lower pad and leans on the upper pad. A spring returns the frame to its original position, and the folded form gives space back to narrow work areas such as bar and store counters.
About Ming Hsiu Lee and Hu Jui Chung
Ming-Hsiu, Lee and Jui-Chung, Hu are undergraduate students studying product design in NTUST. They focus on improving user experience and product aesthetic really much, and they are passionate about making positive impacts to the world. "Delivering a design that can help thousands is literally turning a designer imagination into superpower." this quote is what they deeply believe. The reason for them to study product design is to solve problems of society while having fun, and they hope they will have the chance to collaborate with as many people as they can in the future.
Award Record
This recognition makes Ming Hsiu Lee and Hu Jui Chung a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
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/106577
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106577
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106577
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/279075
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Standly Bao Folding Chair
- Function
- Folding Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Light Gray, Silver, Dark Gray, Gainsboro and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ming-Hsiu Lee and Jui-Chung Hu
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ming Hsiu Lee and Hu Jui Chung
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106577
Credits
- Team
- Ming-Hsiu, Lee and Jui-Chung, Hu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Standly Bao is a assistive device for workers who need to go through long period of standing, keeping them in fine standing posture and mental state, at the same time having the same mobility as standing. With three points pressure method, pressure of lower limbs can be reduced, thus keeping workers from developing wrong standing posture. When the device is folded up, it gives back the space to narrow working space such as counters in bar or departmentstore.
- Inspiration
- In many working environments where sitting is not permitted (ex: bar tender, street vendor), workers have to endure long period of standing. It can really harm our health, causing back pain, leg sore and more, making one's working experience awful. Thus, we want to build a device that can make these workers in service industry feel better while stand working. After interviewing some workers, we collabed with physic therapists and made series of prototype, which help our design more practical.
- Research
- Type of Research : Human Factors Research Research Objectives : To find the most suitable dimention for most people Methodology : First we worked with the physical therapist to figure out the mechanism of the reason causing backpain and leg sore. Later on, we try to use three point pressure method(fix the position of hip/ knee/ feet) to lower the stress of the body when long time standing. Later on, we made many versions of prototype and tested it with hundreds of people to come up with the final design. Data Collection and Research Tools Used: We used many versions of prototype in different stage of our design. *For more detailed description, please check our document file.
- Challenge
- The hardest part is to figure out the working environment in different workspace, and come out with the design that is practical and useful. To overcome it, we did many interviews and research with workers from different workspace.
- Operation and Interaction
- When user feel like resting, just simply pull out the device, and place user's knees on to the lower mat while the upper mat gently move below user's breech, supporting most of the body weight. When user is in the device, one can shift balance backward and forward to meet suitable posture. When user get out of the device, the bottom joint of Standly Bao has a spring which makes the device automatically come back to it's original position. The bottom panel can be folded up, providing user a step to stretch or place his feet. When storing multiple Standly Bao, the bottom panel can be rotated backward for a flat form. *For more detailed description, please check our video.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2019 in Taipei and finished in May 2020 in Taipei, and was exhibited in NTUST design graduation exhibition. Standly Bao is awarded Young Pin Design Award in 2020.
- Specifications
- 550 mm x 400 mm x 760 mm
- Keywords
- health, chair, service industry, worker, medical aid
