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Boat Functional Sculpture by Guangpeng Yue Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Guangpeng Yue honored for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Boat Functional Sculpture by Guangpeng Yue, designed for LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category. The result belongs to 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 assessed 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 Boat Functional Sculpture
Boat is an interactive toy that responds to changes in the surrounding environment. A highly sensitive vibration sensor starts the movement, so the toy can be activated by sound or gesture instead of a mechanical switch. The main drive shaft carries a concave directional track, and the parts inside the groove shift by gravity and push the toy forward. The motion follows the crawling pattern of arthropods, whose spine is echoed by the main axis. All modeling, transmission parts and hardware are made by 3D printing, so complex structures are formed without assembly.
Award Record
With this recognition, Guangpeng Yue is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
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/133453
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/133453
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!133453
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/298608
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Boat Functional Sculpture
- Function
- Functional Sculpture
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Light Gray, Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray, Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Guangpeng Yue
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #133453
Credits
- Team
- Weizhi Cao, Fengze Li, Hang Yin, Xi Zhu, Zixuan Meng, Jiaqi Cui, Yanlei Huang, Jiayi Zhu, Xueqiang Zhang, Xiaolong Yin, Jinsheng Zhao and Yingyi Li
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Boat is an innovative interactive toy. It provides the novelty and interesting interactive experiences to the users by interactive feedback on the perception of things around it. Boat breaks the monotonous interaction mode between products and users by increasing the impact of environmental changes on the product that greatly enriches the interest of Boat as a toy and consumers' desire to explore products.
- Inspiration
- Boat offers more possibilities for products to interact between people and the environment. The product is no longer limited to mechanical switches, but can be started through language, gestures, etc.,which bring better interesting experience to users.
- Research
- By observing the movement of arthropods, simulating the spine of arthropod as the main axis of the model, extracting the movement law of arthropods, designing the mechanism model by computer aided tools, and solid works simulation. we determined the movement regulation of the mechanism.
- Challenge
- The crankshaft shape and fitness of the product have been adjusted several times to make the whole product run smoothly.
- Realization and Technology
- For Boat, in addition to sensors and motors, all modeling, transmission mechanism and hardware structure are finished by 3D printing, which perfectly fit the form of modeling and rhythm of transmission mechanism.
- Operation and Interaction
- Boat is inbuilt highly sensitive vibration sensor, the main shaft surface designs concave directional track. When the sensor feels the vibration, the product starts, the main drive shaft rotates, and the structure in the groove of the rotation shaft moves due to gravity, and pushing the whole forward.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2021 at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, and be completed and produced in October 2021.
- Specifications
- Characteristics Complex structures are divided into static mechanism and dynamic mechanism. The characteristic of dynamic integration mechanism is that it is free of assembly and can realize dynamic connection. The traditional mechanical components need to be printed individually step by step and then assemble them together. But 3D printing can save assembly steps and get the whole mechanism without assembly.
- Keywords
- 3D printing，Functional sculpture， Innovation，Interaction， Toys
