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Silver A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design Goes to Cordless Cleaner C030 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner by Sosuke Nakabo
Sosuke Nakabo recognized for home appliances design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category for Cordless Cleaner C030 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner by Sosuke Nakabo, designed for Plus Minus Zero CO.,LTD.. The recognition forms part of 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
More About Cordless Cleaner C030 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner
Cordless Cleaner C030 is a cordless vacuum cleaner intended for use in living spaces. The design is approached as a tool that adds colour to daily life rather than as an appliance defined only by specifications. The form is simple and sturdy, like commercial equipment, yet modest enough to blend into the home. The handle is made of aluminium and the stand of steel, and a compact high performance DC motor is used. The complete cleaner weighs 1.25 kg and is well balanced, so handling is easy. One button on the grip selects low, medium and high power.
About Sosuke Nakabo
Graduated from the Product Design course of Kyoto City University of Arts. After working at Matsushita Refrigeration Company (Panasonic) Design Center, he went to the UK and finished his master's degree program in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. He worked at Ryonin Keikaku (MUJI) Planning and Design Department and Jasper Morrison's London Office, before establishing Sosuke Nakabo Design Office. He got awarded many international design awards such as Good Design Award, iF Design Award, IDEA and Red Dot Design Award. Associate professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Award Record
With this recognition, Sosuke Nakabo is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Home Appliances Design Award
The A' Home Appliance Design Award is an international competition recognizing good home appliance designs by best appliance designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to home appliance designers, industrial designers, product engineers and appliance brands from all countries. Entries typically include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. Awarded home appliance designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/home-appliance
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/104671
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104671
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104671
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/276497
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://sosukenakabo.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cordless Cleaner C030 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner
- Function
- Cordless Vacuum Cleaner
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Lavender, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Plus Minus Zero CO.,LTD.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sosuke Nakabo
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #104671
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This cleaner was carefully designed by reframing it as being a tool that lends color to our daily lives, rather than as a household appliance that is described merely in terms of specifications, as is usually the case. The aim was for a product that, while simple and sturdy like commercial equipment, blended in with the household in which it was used. Its modest, unobtrusive nature assumes that it will be placed in some kind of living space. Since it is extremely light (1.25kg) and has good central balance, it is easy to handle and the user does not tire when using it.
- Inspiration
- Brooms which are simple, light and easy to handle for cleaning up rooms. Simple and robust like a business-use product, but it blends in with home. Intuitive interface, no excess functions.
- Research
- Got thousand of reviews for the previous model from online shops and SNSs. Got advised by professional cleaning person. Used design research method such as 'Observation' and 'Heuristic evaluation'.
- Challenge
- There are so many functional parts in the product, and it was very hard to have it work perfectly and give it balance. Usually electric appliance industry are good at dealing with plastics such as ABS and PP, but not very good at that of other materials and combinations. Most of company use plastics for making a vacuum cleaner including a stand, for example, but we tried to design the stand made of steel, and the handle made of CNC cut aluminum, to apply the right materials to the right places.
- Realization and Technology
- It employs a very small, high performance DC motor that was developed in conjunction with Nidec, which it delivers in a compact package. The simple yet sturdy construction does not just rely on plastic; aluminum is employed for the handle and steel for the stand, and it is easy to dismantle.
- Operation and Interaction
- One-button-operation. Operation is simple and easy with a button on the grip. Each time the button is pushed, it turns power on with low, medium and high powers. It is turned off by holding down the button. Very light, well balanced and easy to handle. Sophisticated functions such as mechanisms for a dust cup release, and a brush height switch. You can use it with or without T-nozzle and extension pipe, and it can get a variety of forms. It can be stored on the stable stand made of steel.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2017 and finished in December 2018 in Tokyo and Kyoto.
- Specifications
- Handy unit: H404.0×W98.0×D135.0mm/ 0.85kg, With extension: H963.0×W220.0×D135.0mm/ 1.25kg
- Keywords
- Cordless, Vacuum Cleaner, Light, Simple, Functional, Powerful
