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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Beauty United Space Salon by John Sun and Renee Zhu

The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes John Sun and Renee Zhu for interior space and exhibition design

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Beauty United Space Salon by John Sun and Renee Zhu, designed for DDDD Creative Company, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Golden A' Design Award Explained

The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.

Regarding Beauty United Space Salon

Beauty United Space is a hair and beauty salon located in Wuhan, China. The interior covers about 220 square meters and brings haircut, styling and makeup services together in one place. The main colors of the brand identity divide the areas and create strong color contrasts. Abstract elements of a bus are used as a theme throughout the space. Materials include prefabricated terrazzo panels, cement tiles, mirrored and brushed stainless steel and molded plastic chairs. Interactive areas and product displays help visitors understand the brand.

Award Record

John Sun and Renee Zhu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award

The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior

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
Beauty United Space Salon
Function
Salon
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Teal, Sienna, Saddle Brown, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
Images
5
Client
DDDD Creative Company

The Recognition

Laureate
John Sun and Renee Zhu
Country
China
Recognition
Golden A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#104564

Credits

Team
DDDD Creative Studio, John Sun, Renee Zhu, Herb, Creative Fiber Consulting, Juke Creative Design Studio and CHRISTOPHE BRANCHU
Image Credits
Photographer: Sensor Images

Design Details

Unique Properties
The designers adopted the main colors of the brand visual identity to divide spaces so as to form a dynamic color collision. Moreover, personalized modern elements are extracted from "bus", helping to create eye-catching visual effect. Topical and interesting interactive spaces, store appliance attract customers who pursue innovative things. Meanwhile, related products are also displayed here, giving guests a new immersive experience and then better understanding the brand meaning.
Inspiration
The brand name is derived from its brand positioning: a birthplace of fashionable life. It aims to invite guests to discuss together the magic and secret of being beautiful, from hairstyle, makeup to life. "B.U.S Hair and Beauty Salon" takes "BUS" as the carrier to advertise its key values: economical, convenient and customer-friendly, which are essential elements of daily life. The design uses abstract elements of bus to bring about more topics.
Research
Taken "Bus" as the concept, the design creates a customer-friendly brand story that they can easily understand. At the same time, simple references are used to bridge customers and the brand. Besides, apart from pronouncing and remembering easily, the brand name has other advantages: the starting point of topics and the guiding direction of marketing and others.
Challenge
The designers hoped to create a more comfortable way to show the DNA of BUS by utilizing and developing bus elements in the commercial space with beauty fatigue, rather than just arranging an carriage in a concrete way. And they selected materials within limited types to express the design concept.
Realization and Technology
Prefabricated terrazzo panel, prefabricated colored terrazzo panel, cement tile, mirrored stainless steel, brushed stainless steel, fluorocarbon paint metal tube, HDPE modeling chair, convex mirror prop.
Operation and Interaction
B.U.S hopes to give an one-stop solution about haircut, modeling and makeup for the young people. Based on that, the designers came up with the design concept that customers would get a "ticket key" when they enter BUS, and after the modeling they can take photos uploading to the Cloud, and get the photo when paying the cash. The whole process can improve the user experience of "taking the bus" and makes the consumption action more interesting.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in March 2019 and finished in December 2019, and was located in 2F, Hanjie Wanda Plaza, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Specifications
About 220 square meters.
Keywords
Hair and beauty salon, theme space, fast modeling, fashionable life, immersive experience space, one-stop solution

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