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The Venation Jewelry Collection by Zaiyou Jewelry Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Jewelry Design

Zaiyou Jewelry honored for jewelry design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ The Venation Jewelry Collection by Zaiyou Jewelry has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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 Silver A' Design Award Explained

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 The Venation Jewelry Collection

The Venation is a jewelry collection inspired by the growth patterns of plants. The collection includes earrings and a brooch with irregular outlines and a dense central structure that suggest the texture of natural growth. Streamlined undulations create organic forms and give the pieces a sense of extension. Each piece is designed and printed with 3D technology, then set with diamonds in 9-karat gold. The hollow structure relates the forms to the human body. The diamonds follow the outlines and reflect light along the twisting lines.

About Zaiyou Jewelry

The beauty of diamond always fascinates Yuange Chen. The enthusiasm for jewelry then brought her into GIA, where she spending years to master everything about jewelry. Meanwhile, she witnessed the industrial disruption brought by lab-grown diamond in US, and made a bold decision to build a brand for jewelry lovers just like herself. With this innovative gemstone and karat gold, she wish to embrace artistic designing with daily wear jewelry. Growing up a huge Chinese culture lover, Yange named this brand as Zaiyou, the masterpiece written in 4th century BC by Zhuangzi, to flow with the tide and be known by all.

Award Record

This recognition makes Zaiyou Jewelry a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Jewelry Design Award

The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Typical entries include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. The awarded jewelry designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/jewelry

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
The Venation Jewelry Collection
Function
Jewelry Collection
Category
Jewelry Design
Discipline
Fashion Design
Industry
Luxury and Fashion
Colors
Silver, Tan, Dark Olive Green, Rosy Brown and Gray
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Zaiyou Jewelry
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#134908

Credits

Team
Yunmei Huang, Jiangfei Lu and Bench work team :Baosheng Art Craft Co.
Image Credits
Main Image: F.F Studio; Photographer: Yuan Li/ Photoshop: Yuan Li

Design Details

Unique Properties
The work uses the irregular outline and the density of the middle structure to show the dynamic and texture of life growth. The streamlined undulations reveal organic forms, and the overall work reflects a dynamic sense of extension. K gold and diamond combination to create a rich sense of space and a strong sense of three-dimensional, reflecting the modeling ability and a high level of technology.
Inspiration
Inspired by the growth patterns of plants. Integrate the trend of spiraling growth of plants up and out over time into jewelry. The audience can follow the extended trend and the diamond light in the lines, to experience the traces of life and pursuit. The hollowed-out shape makes the jewelry relate to the human body, it shows the fluidity of beauty, and at the same time implies a kind of pursuit, such as the pursuit of light by plants and the pursuit of spiritual world by human beings.
Research
The purpose of the study is to create an organic shape with fashion style, on the one hand, it reflects the vitality form that the designer wants to express, and when wearing it, it can also produce an aesthetic feeling echoing with the human body. Therefore, the designer spent a lot of time to study and draw the law of life growth, and adopted hollow structure in the design, using high-tech modeling and precision technology to present the work.
Challenge
The direction of the contour design and the structure distribution of the hollow form are very big challenges for designing and modeling.
Realization and Technology
3D designed and 3D printed jewelry. Material is set with diamonds in 9-karat gold.
Operation and Interaction
The design boldly presents a sculptural visual effect, presenting a vibrant shape with a smooth outline and a carefully designed hollowed-out structure. The twist of the diamond along the outline reflects a brilliant light. The clever use of materials makes the effect of light and shadow richer and more shocking. Wearers can feel the creativity brought by the combination of 3D technology and art design, and conveying a unique temperament.
Project Duration and Location
The project began in April 2021 in Shanghai, and completed in September 2021.
Specifications
Earrings:58.3mm(L)x18.9mm(W)x20.5mm(D)/68.8mm(L)x27.6mm(W)x10.6mm(D) Brooch:70mm(L)x19mm(W)x9mm(D)
Keywords
3D printing, 3D printed jewelry, jewelry, wearable art, contemporary jewelry, avant garde, Diamond jewelry

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