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Yılmaz Dogan Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Ripple Coffee Table in Furniture Design
Yılmaz Dogan acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ripple Coffee Table by Yılmaz Dogan, designed for QZENS Furniture & Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The award was conferred within the 2018 - 2019 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 scored 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.
About Ripple Coffee Table
The middle tables that used usually take place in the middle of the spaces and cause difficulty with the approach problems. For this reason, the service tables are used to open this gap. In order to solve this problem, Yılmaz Dogan has combined two functions in the design of Ripple and developed a dynamic product design which can be both a middle stand and a service table, which travels with an asymmetric arm and moves in the distance. This dynamic motion coincided with Ripple's fluid design lines reflecting from nature with the variability of a drop and the waves formed by that drop.
About Yılmaz Dogan
Yılmaz Doğan is a designer who has been interested in interior architecture and product design since childhood and started to develop his skills in this field at a young age. His design journey began as an apprentice in his family's carpenter's workshop in Siteler, Ankara, where he quickly realized the importance of structure in both space and furniture design. His passion for pushing structural boundaries led him to study civil engineering at university. With his unique style that blends engineering and design disciplines, he has won many prestigious national and international design awards, including the iF, Red Dot and the A' Design Award.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yılmaz Dogan a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2018 - 2019 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/76654
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/76654
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!76654
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/231445
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ripple Coffee Table
- Function
- Coffee Table
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Lavender, Gainsboro, Dim Gray, Silver and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- QZENS Furniture & Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yılmaz Dogan
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #76654
Credits
- Image Credits
- Image courtesy of QZENS Furniture & Design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Ripple has all characteristics of a static coffee along with a dynamic structure and function of a service table. While meeting the changing needs, it naturally reflects the grace of a splashing water drop. Thanks to its asymmetric arm structure, the service platform that can rotate 360 degrees can serve all planar directions on a single axis.
- Inspiration
- Coffee tables situated at the core of spaces usually fall insufficient due to their approach problems, which is a gap to be filled by service tables. Ripple can cover a distance with its moveable upper table and the asymmetric arm carrying it, offering the function of a service table, as well. Such dynamism coincides with Ripple's fluid design lines and the variability of a water drop and its waves.
- Research
- The design structure of Ripple is inspired by the leap of a drop. The process of a water drop disappearing, becoming still and returning to self after the splash is the reflection of Ripple's dynamic and static character. Ripple, as well, starts a motion by the help of its moving table than turns back to its stillness.
- Challenge
- The most difficult part of this process was to construct the carrier eccentric arm of Ripple, the main character of the moving table. The part made of special hardened transmission steel will be assembled from the bottom of the table by the bearing system and will thus integrate the system.
- Realization and Technology
- Ripple can be produced by modern technological tools and CNC machinery. Thanks to metal structural elements, natural massive wooden body and upper table materials such as massive, laminate, glass and marble, it can be produced in great diversity. The main body is designed as lacquered on MDF. Wave patterns can be prepared by the help of CNC processing units. The carrying eccentric rod will be produced from hardened transmission steel and will be supported.
- Operation and Interaction
- Thanks to its asymmetrical arm structure, the service table which rotates 360 degrees become different by moving from its stable position. Ripple starts with the movement of a lake surface by the effect of a drop of water and its dampening and returns to its former serenity. RIPPLE creates an aesthetic and functional experience by embodying different functions with the purpose of harboring reflections like a dynamic work of art rather than a coffee table.
- Project Duration and Location
- The sketches of the project were first prepared and designed in March 2015. It was re-interpreted in January 2018.
- Specifications
- When upper tray is closed 130cm x 95cm x H45cm, H36 When upper tray is open, service position 180cm x 95cm x H45cm, H36
- Keywords
- Coffee Table, Ripple, Active, Qzens, Wood, Steel, Modern, Minimalism, Innovation
