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Shi Tea Tray by Gang Wang and Guokun Wang Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design

Gang Wang and Guokun Wang honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Shi Tea Tray by Gang Wang and Guokun Wang, designed for Xiamen University of Technology, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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.

Regarding Shi Tea Tray

Shi is a tea tray designed for preparing and serving tea. Shi combines a natural stone disk with an aluminum water chassis. The surface is divided into a flat area and a concave area, with a height difference of 16 millimeters. The flat area stays dry and holds the tea set, while the concave area collects and drains the used water. The drain sits at the lowest point of the concave surface, so the water level remains visible and the tray can be emptied in time. The stone is shaped by computer controlled cutting and finished by sandblasting.

About Gang Wang and Guokun Wang

He is a national model teacher, national innovation and entrepreneurship education advanced individual, research direction for user research and product innovation design, stone product design. More than 100 design and mass production products, authorized 5 Chinese invention patents, won German red dot design award, Italian A design award silver award, IDA design award gold award and other design awards.

Award Record

This recognition makes Gang Wang and Guokun Wang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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. The competition 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. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Shi Tea Tray
Function
Tea Tray
Category
Furniture Design
Discipline
Industrial Design
Industry
Furniture & Home
Colors
Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Silver and Light Gray
Images
5
Client
Xiamen University of Technology

The Recognition

Laureate
Gang Wang and Guokun Wang
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#94380

Credits

Team
Guokun Wang, Chenghua Pan and Xinya Feng
Image Credits
Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.

Design Details

Unique Properties
Tea tray is usually plane and tea water flows everywhere when using under the condition, which brings inconvenience. The design inspiration comes from bridge, which integrates plane & concave and presents the tension of shape. The concave brings height difference, which not only realizes dry and wet depart, but also can be easy to drain water, while cleverly reminding the state of water storage.
Inspiration
Shi is a kind of water storage tea tray, which is made of natural stone and metal (aluminum) water chassis, modeling simple. The disk is designed with drop type through the plane with concave surface, with height difference of 1.6 cm. The plane is used as dry areas, the concave as wet areas, which cleverly realizes tea-making scenarios of dry and wet depart. Besides, for the concave is lower, so we can visually see the tea overflowing from the drain, which prompts the user dumping of tea.
Research
The tea tray design belongs to the application research, which object is to guide user behavior through the simplest language form, combining with ways of user interview, focusing group, product usability testing, consumer diary.
Challenge
The concave curvature of natural stone plate should not only ensure the high efficiency of drainage, and the realization of modeling, but also satisfy the reminding of water level. Through the virtual simulation and physical model test, the radius of curvature of the concave surface is determined to be 212 mm finally.
Realization and Technology
Shi is made of natural stone and aluminum. The natural stone is treated by CNC and water knife cutting molding technology, which surface is realized by sandblasting technology. The aluminum is treated by die drawing and cutting technology, which surface is realized by matte painting.
Operation and Interaction
The flat part of the tea tray is placed with the tea set and the concave part is the operating area. The height difference between the plane surface and concave surface allows an efficient drainage. When the water reaches three quarters of the tank, the user can visually observe the water level from the lowest point of the concave surface to facilitate the timely dumping.
Project Duration and Location
The project was started in xiamen in February 2019, completed in xiamen in September 2019 and exhibited in Shanghai in October 2019.
Specifications
Product size Width 140mm x Depth 600mm x Height40mm Package size Width 260mm x Depth700mm x Height80mm
Keywords
tea tray, stone design, simple, natural interaction, instinct, light weight, different materials combination

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