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Renew Replaceable Refill Marker by Zhen Zhang and Yanan Sun Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Art and Stationery Supplies Design
Zhen Zhang and Yanan Sun recognized for art and stationery supplies design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Renew Replaceable Refill Marker by Zhen Zhang and Yanan Sun, designed for DaoDun Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Art and Stationery Supplies Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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 Renew Replaceable Refill Marker
Renew is a marker designed for quick replacement of the ink core. The pen holder is unscrewed with a twisting motion, so the tip separates from the core and a new core can be inserted without spilled ink. The twist mechanism keeps the holder in place when the cap is removed. Grooves around the fiber tip let the tip bend, which keeps full contact with the paper surface. The cap shape indicates the tip thickness, and matching cap and holder colors show the tilt direction of the tip. The body is made of plastic with a rubber section.
About Zhen Zhang and Yanan Sun
He is the founder of DAODUN, also a design educator and has won many international awards for both his students and himself, DAODUN combines teaching with social practice and creative teaching with product design to improve students' practical ability and cultivate students' thinking methods of creative product design. After a lot of practice, students can confidently step into work or have the ability to study abroad for further study, improve the background of designers, and provide designers to design companies. Dalton also cooperates with universities to develop design courses to serve more students studying design.
Award Record
Zhen Zhang and Yanan Sun is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Art and Stationery Supplies Design Award
The A' Art Supplies Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing best art supplies by leading brands and manufacturers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to art supplies designers, stationery designers, industrial design studios and art supplies brands from all countries. Typical entries include brushes, paints, sketchbooks, pencils, pastels and easels. The awarded art supply designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/art-supplies
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/129889
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/129889
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!129889
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/232077
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Renew Replaceable Refill Marker
- Function
- Replaceable Refill Marker
- Category
- Art and Stationery Supplies Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail and Arts
- Colors
- Yellow Green, Linen, Gainsboro, Dark Khaki and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- DaoDun Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhen Zhang and Yanan Sun
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #129889
Credits
- Team
- Yunsong Liu, Zhen Zhang, Yanan Sun and Xiaofan Zhou
- Image Credits
- Designer Yunsong Liu, Renew, 2021.; Designer Zhen Zhang, Renew, 2021.; Designer Xiaofan Zhou, Renew, 2021.; Designer Yanan Sun, Renew, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a replaceable marker. Unlike existing markers, where refill is injected from the tip of the pen, the user can unscrew the marker, remove the refill and replace it. The pen cap of different shapes indicates the thickness of the pen cap. When fastening the thick pen cap, the color of the pen cap and the penholder can ensure the tilt direction of the pen cap, so as to avoid the pen tip upside down when using it next time.
- Inspiration
- Current markers are less efficient at filling pen water.The inspiration of this design comes from the replacement of the battery. Unscrew the penholder and replace the pen core. When the penholder is inserted back, the internal pen tip can be inserted into the pen core, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly replacing the supplement liquid and extending the service life of the pen.
- Research
- By replacing the marker fluid, we found that the fluid tended to overflow. We disassembled the marker and found that the reason why the fluid flows is the pen tip is inserted into the core. Therefore, we connect the pen tip with the penholder, remove the penholder to achieve the separation of the pen tip and the pen core, to achieve the purpose of replacing the pen core.
- Challenge
- The design challenge is how to change the refill quickly. By removing the marker, we found that the tip of the pen is inserted into the core to drain the pen water.Therefore, we decided to design the pen holder for the marker to be detachable. In order to prevent the pen holder from being pulled out when the cap is removed, the opening mode of the pen holder was designed to be twisted.Another challenge with this design is how to make sure the lines drawn by the markers are smooth. We designed grooves around the tip of the pen so that the tip can bend around to ensure that it fits the surface of the paper.
- Realization and Technology
- The pen body is made of plastic, the middle gray material is rubber, and the tip is made of fiber
- Operation and Interaction
- When the pen runs out of water, the user covers the pen holder and twists it to unplug the pen and replace the pen core. In the drawing process, due to the space left for the pen tip to be bent, the complete contact between the pen tip and the paper surface can be guaranteed when the force is applied. The pen cap of different shapes indicates the thickness of the pen tip. When the pen cap corresponds to the color of the pen holder, the tilt direction of the pen cap can indicate the tilt direction of the pen tip.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was started in October 2021 in Beijing and finished in November 2021 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- Width 160mm x Depth 15mm x Height 15mm
- Keywords
- Quick change, marker, refill, twist
