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W Kid Foot Health Guardian Shoes by Winner Medical Co., Ltd. Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
Winner Medical Co., Ltd. honored for baby, kids' and children's products design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ W Kid Foot Health Guardian Shoes by Winner Medical Co., Ltd., designed for Winner Medical Co.,Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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.
More About W Kid Foot Health Guardian Shoes
W Kid Foot Health Guardian is a pair of shoes designed for toddlers. The design is based on a study of how children's feet develop, and it combines ergonomics, biomechanics, sports medicine and skin care. The bionic foot shape leaves space for the toes to move and improves grip and balance. The modular sole supports the foot bones as children learn to walk, while side and heel frames of thermoplastic elastomer add stability. The upper is made of eucalyptus fiber, and the sock lining uses antibacterial wormwood fiber.
About Winner Medical Co., Ltd.
With its headquarters located in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China, Winner Medical Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive health enterprise taking cotton as the core, which realizes the synergetic development of medication and consumption via three brands including Winner, Purcotton and PureH2B. Through continuous innovation and constant business expansion, Winner Medical Co., Ltd. has developed from a producer of medical consumables into a leader in the field of comprehensive health.
Award Record
This recognition makes Winner Medical Co., Ltd. a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. Awarded baby products designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/baby-products
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/143688
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/143688
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!143688
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/335437
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.winnermedical.cn/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- W Kid Foot Health Guardian Shoes
- Function
- Shoes
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Silver, Dark Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Winner Medical Co.,Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Winner Medical Co., Ltd.
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #143688
Credits
- Team
- Junnan Xiao, Lanzhong Zheng and Yujing Zhu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- W kid children shoes are specially designed for toddlers. The design team makes a profound study on the development features of children's feet, and comprehensively considers ergonomics, biomechanics, sports medicine, skin management and other factors, aiming to improve toddlers athletic ability and perception, and promote foot development.
- Inspiration
- The design team draws inspiration from toddlers foot development needs. Babies will rub their feet and relax their toes when they are satisfied during suckling, which indicates their healthy development. The distinctive bionic foot shape shoes leave sufficient space for toes to move, and improve toe grip and spacial perception. Moreover, the differentiated toe caps meet the needs during their order sensitive period and help to improve their cognitive ability.
- Research
- The development of the feet is a continuous process. Children develop their comprehensive sensory abilities at the age of 1.5 to 4, during which foot-natural environment contact is essential to enhance the sensitivity of foot tactile nerves and effectively exercise the muscles and ligaments of the soles. Medical research shows that most foot bones are calcified cartilage, which is elastic and east to deform. Therefore, a pair of children shoes with gait assistance function is necessary, it can help children learn to walk more easily and healthily, stimulate growth function and promote sound gait development.
- Challenge
- The difficulty of this design is to provide children with scientific and comfortable shoes, expand their thinking while improving the walking ability. In this connection, the design team integrates ergonomics, biomechanics, sports medicine, skin management and other factors to create the distinctive modular structured sole and bionic toe cap, which better meets walking needs of children and improve their toe grip, balance, vision and order perception.
- Realization and Technology
- The third generation 3D Plus, flyknit technology Sandwich structure technique Injection molding 95 percent unsoluble antibacterial technology Patented humidity detection technology TPE environment friendly rubber sole RPET insole Eucalyptus fiber perforated woven upper vamp Microporous wormwood fiber antibacterial sock lining
- Operation and Interaction
- The modular structured sole can hold up the corresponding foot bones when children learn to walk, which helps them to balance their gait, open the toes, enhance grip and plantar muscles and promote arch development. Meanwhile, the TPE protection frame at the side and heel can improve gait stability and prevent over pronation. The parallel bionic toe cap leaves sufficient space for toes to move and mitigates external impact.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was initiated in Shenzhen, China in June 2020 and listed in June 2022.
- Specifications
- The size of shoes is 65 mm x 160 mm x 90 mm.
- Keywords
- Toddler shoes, Ergonomics, Biomechanics, Bionic foot shape, Perception exercise
