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Loklik Ipaint Painting Plotter by Amy Ai Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Prosumer Products and Workshop Equipment Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Amy Ai for prosumer products and workshop equipment design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Loklik Ipaint Painting Plotter by Amy Ai, designed for Loklik, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Prosumer Products and Workshop Equipment Design category. The recognition forms part of 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Loklik Ipaint Painting Plotter
Loklik Ipaint is a smart painting machine for home and workshop use. The machine helps users create paint by numbers artwork, woodcut paintings and greeting cards without prior painting skills. Artificial intelligence software converts uploaded pictures into line drawings and manages painting tasks. The hardware has only two buttons, power and pause, and connects to a phone or a computer by Bluetooth or USB cable. The main structure uses aluminium alloy precision rails and matte ABS parts for durability.
About Amy Ai
HTVRONT stands as one of Sijiu Tech brands, a collection of R&D, production, and sales in one of the handcraft DIY materials & equipment manufacturing enterprises. It attaches great importance to R&D investment and innovation and has formed its own set of standards in HTV production. It produces Heat Transfer Vinyl, Adhesive Vinyl, Sublimation Paper, Heat Press, Weeding Tools, Resin, etc., for craft enthusiasts.
Award Record
With this recognition, Amy Ai is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2024 - 2025 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Prosumer Products and Workshop Equipment Design Award
The A' Equipment Design Award is an international equipment design competition recognizing good equipment designs by equipment designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to equipment designers, prosumer product manufacturers, industrial design studios and equipment brands from all countries. Entries typically include 3D printers, workshop equipment, compact lathes, desktop CNC machines, engraving tools and high-precision scales. Awarded equipment designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/prosumer-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/170333
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170333
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170333
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/362782
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.loklik.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Loklik Ipaint Painting Plotter
- Function
- Painting Plotter
- Category
- Prosumer Products and Workshop Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Gray, Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Loklik
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Amy Ai
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170333
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This design is the first AI powered smart painting machine all over the world, which integrates AI technology, ultra simple operation hardware, painting art, and handicraft skills. It can solve the pain points of traditional oil paintings, such as high purchase costs, long customization cycles, and limited artistic resources. Users without painting skills can easily customize personalized paint by numbers, woodcut paintings, greeting cards, and other painting related artworks.
- Inspiration
- The paint by number market has grown significantly in recent years with an annual growth of 300 percent. Many painting lovers are eager to seek more creative and engaging painting experiences. People with no painting skills or who are physically disabled hope to realize their painting dreams. Loklik Ipaint, born with AI technology, intelligent software, and hardware, provides users with a highly personalized, high quality, cost effective, simple, and convenient oil painting creation experience.
- Research
- We collected information from artists, parent child families, arts and craft KOLs through questionnaires, offline seminars, and online interviews. We clarified user portraits, product function requirements, and marketing strategies. The results show that married women aged 35 to 44 with children pursue emotional value and parent child interaction and are eager to have a machine that can provide mass design resources, convert pictures into line drawings, and erase drafts by thermal.
- Challenge
- Loklik Ipaint fills the market gap for intelligent oil painting machines. Through detailed and scientific research methods, the target audience and user needs are gradually clarified. AI technology achieves better results in digital painting through extensive algorithm training and manual debugging. Relying on a strong supply chain and production capacity, this innovative, smart machine is easy to use, high quality, and affordable.
- Realization and Technology
- Loklik Ipaint has a simple appearance, a scientific structural design, and a modern and artistic color scheme. The main structure is wear resistant using aluminum alloy precision rails with a dark gray oxidation process technology. With high quality ABS material and a matte texture on the surface, the overall style is smooth and mellow. Some of the internal metal parts use electroplating technology to ensure that they will not rust after long term exposure, thereby improving the durability and environmental protection of the machine.
- Operation and Interaction
- The machine hardware adopts a minimalist design concept, with only two buttons, power and pause. After pressing the power button to turn on the machine, it can connect to a mobile phone or computer via bluetooth or USB cable. The supporting self developed software can realize functions such as picture uploading, AI style conversion, AI generated pictures, picture processing, line drawing processing, painting task management, pigment color matching viewing, etc.
- Project Duration and Location
- It was initiated in Changsha, China, in January 2024 and jointly developed by Foshan, Shenzhen, and Dongguan. It will be launched in the US and European markets around May 2025.
- Specifications
- 587mm* 535mm* 148 mm
- Keywords
- AI powered smart painting machine, paint by number plotter, painting machine, loklik, scientific structural design
