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Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Tear and Discover Furniture in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu acknowledged for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Tear and Discover Furniture by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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 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.
More About Tear and Discover Furniture
Tear and Discover is an art installation made of four household products: a speaker, a floor lamp, a clock and a fan. Each object is fully wrapped in leather, so the sound, the light, the time and the air flow are hidden. To use a function, the visitor must cut the leather cover. The leather and its labels stand for the symbolic value of goods, while the parts inside provide the use value. All covers are shaped by hand from 1.5 mm vegetable-tanned leather and held by stainless steel supports. The work questions the relation between sign and function in consumption.
Award Record
Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
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/136522
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136522
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136522
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/327761
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tear and Discover Furniture
- Function
- Furniture
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray, Gray, Sienna and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136522
Credits
- Team
- Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu
- Image Credits
- Jie Gao, Hengguang Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The work consists of four household products, speaker, floor lamp, clock, and fan, which are covered inside the leather. The leather and labels represent the symbolic value of the goods, while the functional components inside the leather deliver the use-value. This design emphasizes the contradiction between sign and function in the product consumption through a destructive interaction to 'cut' the signed cover and liberate the function.
- Inspiration
- Living in the current era of consumption, symbolic consumption has gradually changed our mindset of on-demand consumption, and the functions of products have been obscured by the virtual signs created by capital. The endless pursuit of the sign has accelerated the waste of material. Therefore the work rethought the relationship among signs, functions, and design.
- Research
- The work have taken the‘Consumption society’ as our research direction and the commodity as the object for our project. The design want to discuss the relationship between symbol, function, and commodity and reflected on the design. Through research the design aim to express the contradiction between symbolic value and use-value of products in the consumer society where signs are proliferating.
- Challenge
- The most difficult part of this design is the expression of the mindset. Firstly, how to express the idea through the design language? After many times discussion, The use of metaphorical forms of wrapping, highlighting and rupture, and contradictory interactions were confirmed. Secondly, how to shape the leather into the form? This step took many material tests and prototypes before the final form was created.
- Realization and Technology
- This work uses the leather wet shaping craft, the leather surface and stainless steel support form a strong visual tension. The whole set of products is all made of 1.5mm whole vegetable-tanned leather. After soaking for 8 hours, awakening the active protein of the leather and giving the leather better ductility. After it is wrapped on the shaping mold and shaped by hand, giving the product shapes a soft curve and organic sense.
- Operation and Interaction
- The work covered by leather, functions are hidden inside——the sound is obscured, the light is covered, the time is hidden, the wind is blocked, in order to use the functions, the user needs to cut the leather through destructive interactions and destroy the complete leather the user's thoughts will be aroused during the interaction.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project starts in November 2020 in Shanghai and is completed in 2021 in Shanghai, where it will be exhibited in June.
- Specifications
- speaker,345*345*1427mm floor lamp,372*305*1930mm clock,455*140*100mm fan，360*200*1610mm
- Keywords
- art, craft, furniture, speaker, floor lamp, clock, fan
