Press Release
Draw One Calendar by Dan Wang and Ziqiang He Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Idea and Conceptual Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Dan Wang and Ziqiang He for idea and conceptual design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Idea and Conceptual Design category for Draw One Calendar by Dan Wang and Ziqiang He, designed for Beijing Institute of Technology. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 scored 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.
About Draw One Calendar
Draw One is a calendar shaped like a tissue box. Each sheet is printed with a single date, and users pull out one sheet each day to update the calendar. A drawn sheet cannot be used again, which reflects the one-way nature of time. An opening on the front shows the remaining sheets and the rest of the year. The box is made of wooden boards cut to standard sizes, marked by laser engraving, joined with environmentally friendly glue and waxed to keep the natural texture of the wood. The intent is to encourage users to value time.
About Dan Wang and Ziqiang He
Dan Wang is a cutting-edge female industrial designer who flaunts freedom and breakthrough. Because of this, her designs are often not bound by conventional thinking and always attract people's attention. Her criterion for evaluating the success of her design work is whether people can fall into immersive thinking when interpreting her design work.
Award Record
Dan Wang and Ziqiang He is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2021 - 2022 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Idea and Conceptual Design Award
The A' Idea Design Award is an international idea design competition recognizing great ideas by designers, creators, innovators and free thinkers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to idea designers, conceptual designers, innovation consultants and creative thinkers from all countries. Typical entries include innovations, prototypes, blueprints, sketches, models and concepts. The awarded idea designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/idea
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/135345
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135345
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135345
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/319543
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Draw One Calendar
- Function
- Calendar
- Category
- Idea and Conceptual Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Design Industry and Innovation
- Colors
- Snow, Gainsboro, Burly Wood, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Beijing Institute of Technology
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Dan Wang and Ziqiang He
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #135345
Credits
- Team
- Dan Wang and Ziqiang He
- Image Credits
- Designer Ziqiang He, Calendar, 2021.; Designer Ziqiang He, Color selection, 2021.; Designer Ziqiang He, Details, 2021.; Designer Ziqiang He, Scenarios, 2021.; Designer Ziqiang He, Draw One, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Draw One Calendar is a minimalist calendar that uses the form of a tissue box as a metaphor for the preciousness of time. At the same time, the user can also see the remaining tissue through the opening on the front of the calendar, linking it with the rest of the year. On the premise of satisfying users' needs for using the calendar, Draw One Calendar wants to convey a correct concept of time, that is, cherish time and live in the moment.
- Inspiration
- This is a calendar that can be used like a paper towel. Each piece of paper is the date of the day, one per day, and each day is unique. After the paper is drawn, it cannot be used again. It is a metaphor for the one-way nature of time, and the form of paper drawing also means to cherish time like saving paper, providing a new calendar concept.
- Research
- The calendar is a very traditional timekeeping tool. The purpose of the project is to give the calendar more meaning about time. Borrowing the metaphor of the tissue box. Draw One Calendar is designed through the combination and endowments of common products in life.
- Challenge
- Time is unidirectional, so every day is precious. How to integrate the concept of cherishing time in the form of a calendar and pass it on to users is the most challenging part of this design. The way of extracting paper towels is also one-way, and it can allow users to participate in the use, which is an innovative combination.
- Realization and Technology
- Standardized production of wooden boards through cutting technology, printing logos on the boards with laser engraving technology, bonding the parts with environmentally friendly glue, and finally applying wax to preserve the natural texture and soft touch of the wood.
- Operation and Interaction
- Draw One calendar is like the tissue paper in the tissue box. Each sheet of paper is printed with the date of the day. Users can update the date of the day by drawing. The hollow wooden box can see the process of paper reduction, which represents the passing of the times. It is a new type of calendar that can provide users with a strong sense of participation.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2020 in Yantai, with model making around November 2020 and completion in early January 2021 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- Width 400 mm x Depth 170 mm x 230 Height mm
- Keywords
- Calendar, Time, One-way, Tissue box, Draw, Cherish the time
