Press Release
Happiness Brooch and Pendant by Xiaojie Hu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Xiaojie Hu for jewelry design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Happiness Brooch and Pendant by Xiaojie Hu, designed for Hu's Cloisonné Jewellery, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category. The result belongs to 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 Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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 Happiness Brooch and Pendant
Happiness is a piece of jewelry that can be worn as a brooch or as a pendant. The design shows a magpie beside bamboo, two motifs linked in Oriental culture with good fortune and noble character. The magpie is made with the traditional cloisonne technique, which gives the bird rich colors and textures. The bamboo is made of gold and silver and is set with diamonds and emeralds. Each step is completed by hand, including wire work, glazing, repeated firing at high temperature and grinding. The intent is to bring a traditional craft into modern jewelry.
About Xiaojie Hu
Cloisonne is an intangible cultural heritage. It has been introduced into China since the Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years. Due to exquisite production, complicated craftsmanship, scarce production and high price, it has always been only used by the palace nobles. After hundreds of years of inheritance and evolution, integrating traditional Chinese aesthetics and cultural wisdom, cloisonne has become a very representative craftsmanship in China. With the popularization of industrialization, people pursue efficiency more, and fewer and fewer people are engaged in this pure handicraft.
Award Record
Xiaojie Hu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2021 - 2022 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Jewelry Design Award
The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Entries typically include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. Awarded jewelry designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/jewelry
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/135381
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135381
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135381
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/322134
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Happiness Brooch and Pendant
- Function
- Brooch and Pendant
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Antique White, Light Gray, Silver, Teal and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hu's Cloisonné Jewellery
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaojie Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #135381
Credits
- Team
- Photographer：Danny Duan
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The artist integrates the traditional cloisonne craft into the jewelry design, making the design more modern while retaining the traditional Oriental characteristics, and striving to make efforts for the inheritance and development of the traditional cloisonne craft.
- Inspiration
- As a bird that symbolizes auspiciousness, it is said that seeing a magpie means something good will happen. Bamboo is a very important plant in oriental culture, symbolizing noble and great character. The overall design is very oriental. The artist used cloisonne to create the magpie, showing the rich colors and textures that make the bird look more vivid. The bamboo behind it is gold and silver colour, inlaid with diamonds and emeralds, making the whole design more gorgeous.
- Research
- Because the craftsmanship of Cloisonne uses copper as the inner bottom tire, in order to make the blue and green more vivid, it can experiment with silver tires. So the artist tried to adjust during the production process and successfully got more beautiful colors.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge of this design is to break through the tradition and combine the cloisonne craftsmanship originally applied to the utensils with gold and gemstones to make the design a unique piece of jewelry.
- Realization and Technology
- The magpie cloisonne process used by this work is very complicated, need after cutting, carving, tinsel, silver inlay, coated with glaze, high temperature, grinding, etc more than ten working procedure, to do work in 800 - degree firing 20-30 times, can obtain the beautiful color, and these should be done purely manual. Due to the uncertainty of handwork, the success rate of a perfect cloisonne is not high, which is all the more precious in today's speed seeking industrial age.
- Operation and Interaction
- This piece can be used as a brooch and necklace in different occasions
- Project Duration and Location
- The project will be designed and produced in Beijing in 2021, and it will take 2 months in total.
- Specifications
- Brooch Size: Height 56cm Material: Cloisonne, Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Emeralds Process: filigree cloisonne, metal casting, metal wire drawing, gem setting, color separation gold plating
- Keywords
- Cloisonne jewellery, happiness, Chinoiserie jewellery, Enamel Jewelry, Cloisonne Brooch , Pendant
