Press Release
Bingrou Chen Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Xun Rubber Rings Fabric in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Bingrou Chen for textile, fabric, textures, patterns and cloth design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Xun Rubber Rings Fabric by Bingrou Chen has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Xun Rubber Rings Fabric
This fabric is made from rubber rings by a special weaving technique suitable for annular materials. It can weave rubber rings together to be a reticular fabric and convert them into wearable designs but not cause any damage to the annular structure that all the materials inside the fabric are intact and can be reused. In addition, It does not require professional skill and special tools that even laymen without any weaving experience can easily use this craft. Everyone can knit his own clothes easily by this way.
About Bingrou Chen
Bing Rou is a girl with special ideas. She always has a lot of unrestrained ideas. For her, fashion design is not just making a cloth to cover the body but it can be a sculpture or a painting. In her design works, she has been trying to break the boundary between “clothes making” materials and “non-clothes making” materials as well as trying to bring new possibilities to fashion design through using different materials and different combinations, and therefore, she has also made some gains in costume design and innovation.
Award Record
This recognition makes Bingrou Chen a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Award
The A' Textile Design Award is an international textile design competition recognizing good textile designs by best textile designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to textile designers, fabric engineers, texture and pattern creators and clothing companies from all countries. Typical entries include structural fabric, engineered cloth, smart textiles, technical textiles, woven fabric and jacquard fabric. The awarded textile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/textile
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/110044
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/110044
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!110044
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/284625
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://youtu.be/-ZS_TWlTwqc
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Xun Rubber Rings Fabric
- Function
- Rubber Rings Fabric
- Category
- Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Lavender, Silver, Gainsboro, Dark Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Bingrou Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #110044
Credits
- Image Credits
- Image #No1:Photographer Yiting Li，2018 Image #No2:Photographer Yiting Li，2018 Image #No3:Photographer Yiting Li，2018 Image #No4:Photographer Yiting Li，2018 Image #No5:Photographer Yiting Li，2019 Video：Photographer Chen Bingrou，2020
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This fabric is totally made from rubber rings by a new weaving technique suitable for annular materials. This technique would not do any harm to annular structure that all rubber rings in this fabric are intact and can be reused. In addition, this technique does not need any professional tools or flexible skills that even the laymen without any experience of knitting can use this process easily.
- Inspiration
- I have tried to learn how to knit sweaters from my mother when I was a kid, but the knitting process was so complicated for me as it required specific tools and exquisite craftsmanship that I never succeeded in making a garment. I wanted to find a knitting technique that was easy to study so that everyone could make clothes by themselves easily. It does not require professional skill and special tools that even laymen without any weaving experience can easily use this craft.
- Research
- This design is aim at breaking the boundary between "clothing" and "non-clothing" materials to find new possibilities in fashion design. In my opinion, the exploration and application of new materials are particularly important, and, new materials are not only means high-tech materials, but also means materials which can be found in our daily life, such as rubber rings, metal rings, thin wires, shoelaces and so on. I hope my design is not just a garment but a work of art that can inspire people.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge of the project was how to apply a variety of non-clothing materials to the textile and convert them into wearable designs. In addition, how to find and apply these materials is also a very challenging thing. I finally combine these materials in a purely handmaking way by creative weaving process.
- Realization and Technology
- Ring structure material weaving technique. This weaving technique is different from traditional weaving process as the latter one always use the linear material as the main materials. Rather, this new weaving process is suitable for rubber ring or other ring materials, and during the weaving process it wouldn’t do any harm to the weaving materials as well as needn’t break the ring structure, in other words, all rubber rings in my weaving words are intact，and，all rubber rings in my works can be reused.
- Operation and Interaction
- This technology is suitable for annular structure materials such as rubber rings. It can weave rubber rings together to be a reticular fabric and convert them into wearable designs but not cause any damage to the annular structure that all the materials inside the fabric are intact and can be reused. In addition, It does not require professional skill and special tools that even laymen without any weaving experience can easily use this craft. Everyone can knit his own clothes easily by this way.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2018 in Guangzhou and finished in June 2018 in Guangzhou, and was exhibited in Guangdong Academic Forum for Graduate Students in October 2019.
- Specifications
- The whole collection is 1 look womenswear, size 4.
- Keywords
- Textile of rubber ring, rubber,new material, weaving process, green design
