Press Release
Nguyen Vu Duc Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Carbon Craft Eyewear in Eyewear Design
Nguyen Vu Duc of Vooc design acknowledged for eyewear design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Eyewear Design category for Carbon Craft Eyewear by Nguyen Vu Duc of Vooc design. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 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 A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Carbon Craft Eyewear
Carbon Craft is an exceptionally durable and reliable product. The eyewear frame is produced using 3D FDM printing combined with manual surface polishing. This design embraces a classic style by completely eliminating hinges and metal framing. No screws are used. The components can be easily assembled and replaced. It applies a unique shaping technique from carbon technology, enhancing the material's structural integrity and load-bearing capacity.
About Nguyen Vu Duc
co-founder of Vooc Design Vooc Design was founded with the purpose of using our passion to improve everyday products to make them more optimal. Every project is a different challenge, and we always feel happy accomplishing them. We always strive to contribute to the local community by improving the economy and health through highly practical designs.
About Vooc design
Duc Nguyen Vu is the Director, Operating in the field of handicraft production in Vietnam. Researching and developing bamboo bicycles, sunglasses, and interior decorative lighting. Studying and improving processes to enhance the quality of Kimono garment
Award Record
With this recognition, Nguyen Vu Duc of Vooc design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Eyewear Design Award
The A' Eyewear Design Award is an international eyewear design competition recognizing outstanding eyewear designs by top eyewear designer and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to eyewear designers, product designers, industrial design studios and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include sunglasses, prescription glasses, reading glasses, safety glasses, sports goggles and swim goggles. Awarded eyewear designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/eyewear
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/169331
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/169331
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!169331
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/365694
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Carbon Craft Eyewear
- Function
- Eyewear
- Category
- Eyewear Design
- Discipline
- Design Strategy
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Dark Slate Gray, Light Gray, Dim Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nguyen Vu Duc
- Country
- Viet Nam
- Brand
- Vooc design
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #169331
Credits
- Team
- VOOC Design Team
- Image Credits
- VOOC Design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- VOOC Carbon Craft is designed with a classic aesthetic, No screws are used, completely eliminating hinges and metal framing. The components can be easily assembled and replaced. By applying characteristic shaping techniques of carbon technology, it increases the formability and strength of the material. The shape structure has high stability.
- Inspiration
- Starting from my habit of wearing glasses all the time: working, cycling, playing with my two-year-old daughter... I want to create a design that boasts superior durability, optimizes production costs, allows for easy replacement of parts, and maintains a fashionable look suitable for external activities.
- Research
- For conventional classic eyeglass frames: the Temples are shaped by an inner metal rod and connected to the Frame Front through metal hinges and screws. This structure is easily deformed when subjected to strong forces. Customers find it difficult to replace parts by themselves for repairs. Following the global development of technology, 3D printing technology has become more popular at a lower cost. Carbon fibers are mixed with Nylon resin in various ratios to create the perfect material to replace metal frames, reducing weight and optimizing costs.
- Challenge
- Eliminating some types of machinery, reducing the variety of input materials, reducing CO2 emissions, reducing water pollution, and reducing costs for factory space. It can support customers remotely. The durability is beyond imagination; you can rest assured to fall asleep while reading, spend more time with your two-year-old daughter. Don't worry when accidentally bumping into a car door. When the force is too strong, the TPU hinge can absorb the impact.
- Realization and Technology
- 1. Modeling in Rhinoceros 3D software. 2. The components are printed using FDM 3D printing technology. Carbon fibers are mixed with Nylon resin in various ratios to create the perfect material to replace metal frames, reducing weight. Properly programming the 3D printer enhances the material's strength and improves the surface quality of the print. The hinge part is printed from TPU material. The structure is created from multiple layers of stacked plastic fibers. 3. Surface smoothing is done by manual grinding and polishing techniques.
- Operation and Interaction
- The replacement joints are pre-installed in the cap. The replacement process is very simple: slide the temples perpendicularly out of the fixed mount on the frame front. Remove the TPU joint from the fixed mount on the temples. Replace with a new TPU joint in the fixed mount on the frame front. Finally, hook the entire mount on the temples and the TPU joint, adjust the TPU joint to slide into the pre-existing groove on the temple to complete the process.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Ho Chi Minh city after a visit to Sabae, Japan in the summer of 2024.
- Specifications
- 1. The frame: width 143 mm x depth 155 mm x height 49 mm weight: 29 g, material: Nylon Carbon 2. The hinge: width 10 mm x depth 19 mm x height 2 mm, material: TPU 3. The box: width 154 mm x depth 58 mm x height 60 mm, material: PETG Carbon
- Keywords
- Simplicity, reliability, durability, lightweight
