Press Release
Misaki Tanaka Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Solit Clothes in Social Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Misaki Tanaka for social design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Solit Clothes by Misaki Tanaka, designed for Solit, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Social Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Solit Clothes
The design allows customers to choose from more than 1,600 patterns of size regardless of their body type, disability or sexuality at an affordable price. It involves customers' voices, such as people with disabilities and sexual minorities, as well as medical and welfare professionals voices in the development process in the entire process, and cutting the fabric only after receiving a purchase request. This allows the design perfectly fits customers individual needs and their lifestyle.
About Misaki Tanaka
I am a serial social entrepreneur and social designer in Japan. While design is a wonderful way to inspire people and change behavior, I believe that it has also contributed to the creation of many social issues. Because I love to think about design, I want to create designs for a better society. I have run a non-profit organization on disaster prevention and climate change for 8 years, run a PR and design company specializing in solving social issues, and now run SOLIT, a fashion brand that is even more inclusive of diverse people.
Award Record
This recognition makes Misaki Tanaka a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Social Design Award
The A' Social Design Award is an international design competition recognizing excellence in social design by social impact designers and think-tanks worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to social designers, social brands, social manufacturers and social design professionals from all countries. Typical entries include community projects, social campaigns, public installations, educational programs, sustainable initiatives and healthcare solutions. The awarded social designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/social
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/130577
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/130577
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!130577
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/315715
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://solit-japan.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Solit Clothes
- Function
- Clothes
- Category
- Social Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Slate Gray, Sea Green, Light Cyan and Cadet Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Solit
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Misaki Tanaka
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #130577
Credits
- Team
- ITSUO MIHARA, YUKIKO ITO and Tomoko IKENOUE
- Image Credits
- Photographer Kiruke Watanabe, Key Visual1 2020.; Photographer Koji Yamanaka, Masaki-san 2020.; Photographer Dai Hashimoto, SOLIT Broad Shirts 2020.; Photographer Takahide Wakabayashi, Dawn Jacket 2020.; Photographer Kiruke Watanabe, Key Visual2 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It is a semi-personalized inclusive fashion brand that allows customers to choose from more than 1,600 patterns of size regardless of their body type, disability or sexuality at affordable price. With the motto of "the right things for the right people, in the right quantities," the brand involves people with disabilities and sexual minorities in the development process from the planning stage, starts cutting the fabric only after receiving a request, and makes only what is needed.
- Inspiration
- Ever since I was a little, I have felt that I was an ugly person.I felt this especially in the fitting rooms, where I entered in the hope that I might be able to change. There are many people who cannot wear existing clothes due to design or structural problems. We have been working with medical and welfare professionals, wheelchair users, dwarfism, and other people who have been experiencing problems with clothing from the planning stage.
- Research
- Interview, consult and discussion with medical and welfare professionals and experts, as well as those who are experiencing issues in wearing clothes in their daily lives provided us with insights when designing patterns. For example, to add extra adding ribbing to sleeves and jacket is essential for wheel chair users. This can be used to protect the arms from rubbing against the wheels and losing them when the wheelchair is running on its own, or to make it easier to roll up the arms. In another example, people with quadriplegia have had difficulty putting on and taking off items that have buttons or jackets that require rolling the shoulders.
- Challenge
- The hardest part is to design patterns that truly fits those who cannot fit into clothes that are sold in the market. Some of them may have disabilities, some of them have specific needs in their clothes. We keep discuss with academic, clinical and welfare professionals.
- Realization and Technology
- We reflected the voices of both the academic and clinical opinions and findings of medical and welfare professionals and experts, and the issues that can only be understood by those who are experiencing it in their daily lives. We have achieved a design specification that allows for over 1600 possible combinations. At SOLIT, we have streamlined the work process and created a made-to-order model that allows us to maintain a medium price range while retaining customizability.
- Operation and Interaction
- With the motto of "the right things for the right people, in the right quantities," the brand involves people with disabilities and sexual minorities in the development process from the planning stage, starts cutting the fabric only after receiving a request, and makes only what is needed in the right quantities. Our goal is to create an "all-inclusive" society that accepts a diverse range of people and does not assume waste in production, leaving no one or nothing behind, including nature, animals, and the global environment.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Sep.2020 in Japan
- Specifications
- The design perfectly fits each customers needs to their clothes, we make it possible by including customers' voices as well as medical and welfare professionals voices in the development process from the very beginning.
- Keywords
- allinclusive, SOLIT, Fasionforall, Socialdesign
