Press Release
Jinying Cheng Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Weed Lamp in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Jinying Cheng acknowledged for lighting products and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Weed Lamp by Jinying Cheng has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 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.
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 Weed Lamp
Weed is a portable lamp inspired by the form of wild grass. The lamp has two parts: a base and a slim stem with a light on top. The stem is lifted out of the base and held in the hand, so the light can be carried outdoors or into dark rooms. The base holds a wireless charging coil, and a receiver coil inside the stem collects the energy and charges the lamp. The outer shell is made by 3D printing in PLA, while the bendable stem is 3D printed in silicone around an iron wire. The lamp measures 110 x 95 x 460 millimetres.
About Jinying Cheng
Jinying is a bachelor college student who majored in Industrial Design, who also have desire to explore more possibilities of mixing design skills together with other domain knowledges, such as sociology, anthropology and so on. After graduate from college, she decided to participate in product service system design direction to explore more stories behind the product and economy circulation process in the more and more complex background of society. She is passionate during team work, and always finds it exciting when finding some important insights of users' need.
Award Record
Jinying Cheng is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/lighting
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/105733
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/105733
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!105733
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/278084
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Weed Lamp
- Function
- Lamp
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Silver, Tan, Gainsboro, Rosy Brown and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jinying Cheng
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #105733
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Lighting can also mean wildness and freedom. In many cases people need formal lighting like ceiling lights or desk lamp. While often most of the time, people need some casual lighting which can be more easy and relaxed to carry with. Weed lamp is an easy-charging lighting product which aims at providing users with agile and convenient lighting. By using the traditional Chinese imagery it arises people's emotions towards nature and connects this feeling with people's daily lives.
- Inspiration
- I used to spent a lot time outdoor with my grandma, and she taught me how to recognize different grass, how to make food from the natural materials which has still left me with deep impression until today. I still recall the process of making a rabbit out of dog tail grass, which is also the most ubiquitous weed in my childhood. It represents freedom and wildness, it's everywhere. I believe in Chinese culture there also exists this kind of free joy, of holding the grass and go wherever you want.
- Research
- The insight I came out after the research is that people care a lot about the freedom feeling when using lighting products, they often regard these product as companions under special circumstances. The target user group is based on family, so by interviewing them during phone calls and sending out questionnaires, I asked questions like :What kind of lighting products do you use mostly? Under what kind of situations would you use this specific product? etc. Then I found that people mostly use 2 main kinds of lighting products. One focuses on human, one focuses on environment.
- Challenge
- During the design process what kept making me feel confused was the lighting's base design. I want it to have the light and free feeling of plants, it can grow everywhere, so it has to be easy to hold, easy to put it on any surfaces. After comparing the straight form and the pointy form, I chose the pointy form to offer it with the natural feeling of plant growth and bifurcation. Then is the technical part. It hard to fit the inner structure like coils and chips into the nutshell, for the size of the coil has long diameter. After try different forms of both shell and stem structure I finally combine these together.
- Realization and Technology
- The outer shell is made by 3D printing in PLA material.While in order to make the stem easy to bend I used silicon 3D printing and put an iron wire inside to make it more stable.Inside shell consists of wireless charging coil, which convert electricity into magnetic flux by using the principle of electromagnetic induction to charge.Inside the bottom of the stem consists of a coil receiver to collect the magnetic flux, then cover to electricity to charge the bulb on the top.
- Operation and Interaction
- When you sit quietly indoor, this lamp will offer you with a sense of gentle lighting instead of turning on too bright light. When you want to go around for a look, just simply take the stem out from the base and hold it in your hand. It can be your best companion when you outdoor or in some darker rooms, without being distracted too much.
- Project Duration and Location
- started in March 2nd and finished in May 1st in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
- Specifications
- 110 mm x 95 mm x 460 mm
- Keywords
- lighting, portable, wireless-charging, wild, storytelling
