Press Release
Modo Snap Hinge Eyewear by Modo Design Team Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Jewelry Design
Modo Design Team honored for jewelry design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Modo Snap Hinge Eyewear by Modo Design Team, designed for MODO Eyewear, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category. The result belongs to 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 evaluated 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.
About Modo Snap Hinge Eyewear
Modo Snap Hinge is an eyeglasses frame built with a screwless hinge system. The hinge joins the frame front to the temples by pressure alone, without screws or welding. Only three parts are used: a beta-titanium temple with a hook shape, a small stainless steel cylinder with bi-conical heads, and an injection molded polymer front with an internal undercut cavity. The cylinder is held in the front and allows smooth friction rotation. The mechanism is hidden inside the end piece, which keeps the frame simple and clean.
Award Record
Modo Design Team is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Entries typically include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. Awarded jewelry designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/jewelry
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/135316
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135316
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135316
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/295580
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Modo Snap Hinge Eyewear
- Function
- Eyewear
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Maroon, Silver, Dark Slate Gray, Brown and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- MODO Eyewear
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Modo Design Team
- Country
- Sweden
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #135316
Credits
- Image Credits
- MODO Eyewear
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Part of MODO eyewear collection uses an innovative "Snap Hinge" system that surpasses current common hinge constructions, which are made up of several components. The snap hinge’s main function is to easily join the front of a pair of glasses to their temples through a very simple method – click, by pressure – without the use of screws or welding, and instead by a reliable connection and smooth friction operation.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from other connection systems present in nature or in mechanical and handcrafted pieces, with the difference that in this case the various materials and their natural elasticity have been exploited in a way that reduces the number of moving parts and pieces and contributes to the longevity of the product.
- Research
- Eyewear frames generally feature hinges with several disadvantages related to the complexity of production and assembly / disassembly, as well as the actual durability of the coupling between the temple and the spectacle front piece. In particular, hinges provided with a screw pin and corresponding coupling elements, which can be fixed to the temples and front-piece require long and complex production steps. The use of screw pins and / or screw connections will eventually lead to loosening and wear in the long run, which will reduce the service life of the hinge and of the frame. With regards to the hinges that do not use a screw coupling, they are rather complex.
- Challenge
- The seeming simplicity of the final result hides a constructive difficulty that we had to overcome with an advanced molding process. The most difficult part was to make the cavity / house of the cylinder inside the plastic polymer front, since it is to be made with a particular undercut that generally in injected front pieces it is not possible.
- Realization and Technology
- The innovation of the snap hinge is its few components: 1. A Beta-titanium temple with a specifically designed hook shape 2. A small metal cylinder that is inserted into the temple hook and acts as the temple’s rotation mechanism. The cylinder heads have a particular bi-conical surface that allows the ‘snap’ attachment to the frame front, for a very resilient one-time-only attachment and unlimited lifespan. 3. An ultra-performing polymer frame front made by a specialised injection molding technique that allows the creation of an internal ‘undercut’ cavity, which serves as the house for the metal cylinder.
- Operation and Interaction
- The assembly process is extremely simple and reduced to only two operations: 1. Insertion of the metal cylinder into the Beta-titanium temple hook 2. Pressure insertion of the cylinder + temple assembly into the injected polymer front’s housing. This new construction is stable and resilient, and the bi-conical surface processing of the cylinder heads prevents the metal cylinder from rotating inside the front piece. The temple hook surrounds the cylinder and rotates around the cylindrical surface. This particular combination of metallic materials allows fluid motion and frictional rotation, thanks to the particular self-lubricating operation of the two different materials.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2020 and launched into Spring-Summer 2022.
- Specifications
- Width 140 mm x Depth 150 mm x Height 45 mm Weight: 13 g Specifications of the product: 1. Injected front with snap fastening seat obtained internally with undercut shape; 2. Stainless steel bi-conical and anti-rotation cylinder; 3. Laser cut and spring bent beta-titanium temples; 4. Injected temple-tip
- Keywords
- Simplicity, reliability, sustainability, clean design, hidden mechanism.
