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Nubed Mattress by Manuel Fuentes Receives the A' Design Award in Bedding Design
Manuel Fuentes recognized for bedding design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Bedding Design category for Nubed Mattress by Manuel Fuentes, designed for Nubed. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Nubed Mattress
Nubed is a mattress designed for comfortable rest. The mattress has rounded corners and a stretch polyester cover that contours to the body. Inside, hundreds of minisprings made of high resilience polyurethane foam create independent resting zones. The firmness of these zones varies along the mattress to give the right support to each part of the body. Air moves freely through the interior spaces, which improves the ventilation of the foam. Each layer is cut with a computer controlled machine and glued to the next one.
About Manuel Fuentes
Manuel Fuentes is a Mechanical Engineer with particular interest in arts, especially music and painting. He is an amateur classical guitarist with repertory from Francisco Tárrega, Antonio Lauro, Johann Sebastian Bach to mention the most representatives. He has special like for drawing and believes that any piece of paper is a great space to express and give form to ideas. He has developed his career in the manufacturing industry particularly in the bedding industry. His background as Mechanical Engineer has been a great support for him to develop and design new products making emphasis in the way they function and the purpose of the product itself looking always for better designs.
Award Record
This recognition makes Manuel Fuentes a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Bedding Design Award
The A' Bedding Design Award is an international industrial design competition that acknowledges exceptional bedding designs created by top designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to bedding designers, textile designers, interior designers and product designers from all countries. Entries typically include comforters, duvets, quilts, bedspreads, blankets and bed sheets. Awarded bedding designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/bedding
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/146772
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/146772
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!146772
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/326660
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.nubed.com.mx
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nubed Mattress
- Function
- Mattress
- Category
- Bedding Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Light Gray, Light Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Lavender and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Nubed
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Manuel Fuentes
- Country
- Mexico
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #146772
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Is a mattress with an unique look, with rounded corners to remind us that going to bed should be smooth and relaxing. The stretch fabric easily contours to the body. Inside there are hundreds of minisprings made of high resilience foam that create independent resting minizones that vary their firmness along the mattress to provide the right support to each part of the body. Thru its interior spaces the air moves freely solving the ventilation problems that is present in most foam mattres.
- Inspiration
- In the world there are people who see and make things in a different way from other people and dream about making changes in aspects of life that really matters. All of them want to make a difference in this world. Every important project or task starts with a dream and those dreamers need the perfect place to start dreaming, a peaceful and comfortable mattress that reminds them how unique they are.
- Research
- The goal of the project was to present an innovative type of mattress, starting from the design of the support system which was possible thanks to an ergonomic and mechanical analysis of a mattress. The support forces of the system were calculated according to the body’s weight distribution resulting in different comfort areas with different amount of support.
- Challenge
- To find a way to make a mattress that was different from the average mattress and its look had to communicate this in the first impression. The design of the core or support system was challenging because it had to be functional and offer both support and comfort at the same time all these was possible selecting proper fabrication materials and using technologies like CAD software and CNC machines.
- Realization and Technology
- The design of the core and comfort layers were made applying ergonomic principles with CAD software. Using a CNC contouring machine each layer was cut in two dimensions from a high resilience polyurethane foam block. The layers are glued together with hotmelt adhesive. The cover was cut and sewn and it is made from polyester stretch fabric.
- Operation and Interaction
- The user only needs lay down and the mattress will work adapting to the body and providing the right amount of support. No matters if the person sleeps on its back, side or stomach the minisprings inside will gently compress and contour to the body helping to release pressure. In case the mattress would need to be move it is easy to do it because it is light weight but very resistant.
- Project Duration and Location
- Started in 2019 and finished in 2021 in Mexico City.
- Specifications
- 1350 x 1900 x 220 mm (Full size)
- Keywords
- Mattress, high resilience polyurethane foam, rest, sleep, dream
