Press Release
Florian W. Mueller Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Ikarus Photography Artwork in Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Florian W. Mueller for photography and photo manipulation design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Ikarus Photography Artwork by Florian W. Mueller, designed for Florian W. Mueller Photography, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Photography and Photo Manipulation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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 Ikarus Photography Artwork
Ikarus is a photography series showing preserved bird specimens from extinct or highly endangered species. Each bird is portrayed in the manner of a Rembrandt painting, and the background of every portrait is a macro photograph of the feathers of that bird. The specimens were photographed in the ornithology collection of the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden, Germany. The title refers to the legend of Icarus, who flew too high and fell into the sea. Ikarus is the third part of a series collection called Neglect. The works are produced on ChromaLuxe material in limited editions.
About Florian W. Mueller
Florian W. Mueller is an internationally distinguished, exhibited, published and booked photographer. Since 2013 he is a professional member of the honorable BFF (professional association of freelance photographers and film designers e.V.) in addition to big names like F.C. Gundlach, Peter Lindbergh, Sarah Moon or Oliviero Toscani. In 2016, he joined the prestigious AOP (Association of Photographers) in London and promptly became a finalist at the 2016 Grand AOP Awards. In 2017, he was a 6-time finalist and won an AOP award. Florian's specialties are architecture, landscape, people and abstract photography.
Award Record
With this recognition, Florian W. Mueller is a winner of 9 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Photography and Photo Manipulation Design Award
The A' Photography Design Award is an international photography competition recognizing good photographic creations by best photographers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to photographers, photojournalists, advertising agencies and digital artists from all countries. Entries typically include portraits, landscapes, still lifes, photojournalism, fashion shots and architectural images. Awarded photography designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/photography
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/139367
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139367
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139367
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/162512
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://florianwm.com/portfolio/ikarus/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ikarus Photography Artwork
- Function
- Photography Artwork
- Category
- Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Entertainment
- Colors
- Black, Maroon, Saddle Brown, Sienna and Peru
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Florian W. Mueller Photography
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Florian W. Mueller
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #139367
Credits
- Image Credits
- Credits: Leica Camera Germany Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden ChromaLuxe Photography Zingst
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Here are photographed specimens of animals, most of whose species are extinct. For this series Dr. Martin Päckert, the head of the ornithology section of the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, he supported me very dedicated in my work. In painting, the foolish or overconfident person is often depicted as Icarus.
- Inspiration
- We know the legend of Icarus, whose father Daedalus built wings of feathers and wax for himself and his son to escape from the captivity of Minos on Crete. The son Icarus became overconfident, the wax melted, he fell into the sea. Despite his father’s warnings. Despite warnings and admonitions, we spiral into ever higher and warmer and warmer climes, and the crash is not far away. Okay, maybe that’s a bit drastic and striking. But all photographed birds are either extinct or highly endangered.
- Research
- I found that in the collection of the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden the most rare examples of extinct bird species are collected. From a project before I had the contacts to the institute and they immediately said yes, when I asked to photograph the examples for my project. Then Dr. Martin Päckert helped me a lot with the taxonomy and the names and the origin of the birds and the preparations.
- Challenge
- The challenge was to set the prepared birds in scene like in a Rembrandt painting. The background of the portraits is a macro-photography of the feathers of each bird.
- Realization and Technology
- Digital Photography, produced on ChromaLuxe material.
- Operation and Interaction
- This is the third series of my collection of series, called NEGLECT. All endangered or extinct species. I had the wonderful chance to photograph in the ornithology institue of the Senckenberg Institutes in Dresden, Germany.
- Project Duration and Location
- It took nearly a year of research and preparation, two days of shooting and around 2 weeks of post-production.
- Specifications
- Produced artworks are in the size 120 x 90cm, 80 x 60cm available. All strictly limited to 5/10 pieces.
- Keywords
- animals, photography, endangered, extinct, birds, environment, portrait, Rembrandt
