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Wowo Multipurpose Furniture by Wei Jingye / 魏靖野 Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Wei Jingye / 魏靖野 recognized for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Wowo Multipurpose Furniture by Wei Jingye / 魏靖野, designed for Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Wowo Multipurpose Furniture
WOWO is a group of multipurpose seating furniture for homes with people and pets. The rounded form comes from the mouth shape made when children say the word wowo. High saturation colors and a hollow structure give the seats a playful and flexible character. The supporting parts are made of solid wood in its natural color, cut by machine and finished by hand grinding. The main body uses 3D printing and a magnetic assembly structure, which eases transport. The seats suit reading, tea drinking and rest.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Jingye / 魏靖野 a winner of 34 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2023 - 2024 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
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/158968
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158968
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158968
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/180555
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wowo Multipurpose Furniture
- Function
- Multipurpose Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Lavender, Light Gray, Silver, Sienna and Indian Red
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Jingye / 魏靖野
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #158968
Credits
- Team
- Wei Jingye, Song Kexin, Zheng Xiaolei and Zhou Haoyuan
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This group of furniture comes from the mouth shape when children say wowo. By refining the high saturation color and mellow shape, combined with a special hollow structure，it evolved into a colorful, playful and flexible seat form. The support part of this group of furniture is made of solid wood, and the main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure.
- Inspiration
- The design takes product semantics of elliptic as the inspiration source. By refining the high saturation color and mellow shape, it evolved into a colorful, playful and flexible seat form. This group of furniture is round and childlike innocence, which achieves good interaction between people and pets, and the bright color makes the indoor environment quite pleasant.
- Research
- This research starts from the multi-function of furniture. Seeking a balance between humans and pets in furniture usage. Suitable for families with pets, especially those with cats, to create a lively and warm family atmosphere.
- Challenge
- Seeking a balance between humans and pets in furniture usage, increase the sense of strength of products when looking for round and lovely shapes, and control the use of colors when matching beautiful colors, so as to make them warm, lovely and not messy.
- Realization and Technology
- The supporting structure of the product is made of solid wood in primary color, which adopts modern numerical control technology and is formed by machine cutting and manual grinding. The main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure.
- Operation and Interaction
- It is suitable for leisure and entertainment. It can sit with feet hanging or knees bent. Whether it is reading, drinking tea or rest and play, this design bring users a sense of safety and comfort. At the same time, the round shape and beautiful colors can also be used for interior decoration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design had started in Shenyang in January 2023, completed in Shenyang in June 2023, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2023.
- Specifications
- 800 mm x 750 mm x 950 mm, 640 mm x 550 mm x 800 mm, The solid wood of the supporting structure is processed and formed by machine cutting and manual grinding. The main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure. It is assembled and formed, convenient for transportation and high modeling freedom.
- Keywords
- Color, Children, Multipurpose, Pet friendly, Leisure time
