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Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Wings Leisure Chair in Furniture Design
Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Wings Leisure Chair by Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia, designed for Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Wings Leisure Chair
Wings is a leisure chair inspired by the movement of butterflies. The form refers to butterfly wings in different states, giving a solid object a sense of life. The back is connected to the middle of the seat, and the seat surface opens on both sides to wrap the hips for greater comfort. The legs use a double layer support that increases stability. The chair is produced as one piece by 3D printing in blue translucent plastic. The outer surface carries a striped texture that recalls wing patterns and increases friction.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia a winner of 27 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
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/136880
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136880
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136880
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/180555
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wings Leisure Chair
- Function
- Leisure Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Lavender, Slate Gray, Light Gray, Light Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136880
Credits
- Team
- Wei Jingye, Wu Yanxia, Shi Mengjiao and Ma Wenhui
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The "Wings" chair is a leisure chair design, made of plastic and integrated technology. The appearance of the product is inspired by the movement of butterflies, aiming to show signs of life from solid objects; The back of the chair is connected with the middle part of the seat surface. The seat surface on both sides is open to surround people's entire hips, making people sit up more comfortable. The design of the legs is double-decker support to increase the support and expressive force of the chair.
- Inspiration
- As a creature as a prototype for the design of the "Wings" chair, has a unique bionic modelling, mainly in butterfly Wings as the prototype, the butterfly resting, long Wings, has formed the design of the chair, when butterflies to fly, Wings flap, open on both sides of the seat surface structure is created, design through the Wings under different status of different forms, Let people feel and experience the existence of life in objects.
- Research
- This seat in butterfly wings form as a source for design, interconnected seat structure, chair leg open seat surface show a seat compact feeling, let chair itself is stronger, the legs of the design of supporting structure is more strengthened the bearing capacity of the chair, on the surface of the bridge to the inclusion of design improves the comfort, connection out chair at the same time, make the form more expressive and vitality, Let users have a better use experience.
- Challenge
- Seek the organic combination of solid seat mechanism and butterfly vitality, increase the sense of power of the product in modeling, with blue translucent plastic material to enhance the expressive force of the seat, so that users have a more comfortable and pleasant use experience.
- Realization and Technology
- The leisure chair is an integral structure, made of 3D printing integral forming technology, the whole is blue translucent plastic material, the outer shape has stripes and concave, in order to increase the friction of the seat.
- Operation and Interaction
- Suitable for leisure and entertainment, sit with your feet down, no matter reading, drinking tea or relaxing, the part of the back of the seat with wrapped nature brings the user a sense of safety and comfort, at the same time, the vitality of the shape can also be used for interior decoration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design had started in Shenyang in March 2021, completed in Shenyang in June 2021, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2021.
- Specifications
- 655mm x 710mm x 785mm, The seat is 3D printed in one piece, and each structure is tightly connected, which made of blue translucent plastic material. The outer part of the chair has striated concave-convex texture to match the wing pattern of a butterfly, at the same time increase the friction force and quality performance of the seat, integrated design convenient transportation, at the same time modeling freedom is also higher.
- Keywords
- The butterfly, Wings, Bionic modeling, Leisure, Vitality
