Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Goes to Tone Tableware Collection by Ozkan Koral
Ozkan Koral recognized for bakeware, tableware, drinkware and cookware design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Tone Tableware Collection by Ozkan Koral, designed for Bonna Premium Porcelain, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 scored 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.
Regarding Tone Tableware Collection
Tone is a tableware collection designed for restaurants, hotels and catering use. The collection includes eleven items, from 100 to 360 millimetres wide and 15 to 70 millimetres high. Each piece has a mildly scalloped, organic form inspired by sea shells and waves of the Mediterranean. Three matched reactive glazes are offered, named Sahara, Blush and Adelfa. The pieces are made of a premium vitrified body that is fired once with low energy use, giving high durability and almost no water absorption. The items stack for compact storage.
Award Record
This recognition makes Ozkan Koral a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award
The A' Kitchenware Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good kitchenware designs by best kitchenware brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to kitchenware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and kitchenware brands from all countries. Typical entries include pots, pans, cutlery, plates, bowls and glasses. The awarded kitchenware designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/kitchenware
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/162950
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162950
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162950
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/357053
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bonna.com.tr
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tone Tableware Collection
- Function
- Tableware Collection
- Category
- Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Food & Hospitality
- Colors
- Burly Wood, Dark Salmon, Wheat, Saddle Brown and Peru
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Bonna Premium Porcelain
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ozkan Koral
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162950
Credits
- Team
- Özkan Koral
- Image Credits
- Özkan Koral
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The new mildly scalloped, mediterranean inspired, vitrified collection by Bonna; comes with 3 well matched reactive glazes. Sahara, Blush, and Adelfa. With minimal energy consumption during production, Bonna's new premium vitrified body used in Tone has nearly same durability values as porcelain and almost zero water absorption. Therefore, besides the ceramic workshop feel and sustainability , the collection also fullfills the main requirements of Horeca sector; such as functional sizes and volumes, long life cycle and stackability; by which excelling competitors.
- Inspiration
- Tone Collection takes its inspiration from the Mediterranean and the lands surrounding it. Bringing together the deep cultural heritage of the coastal countries by combining the rythm of music, local dance and calm waves with memorable tones of Mediterranean landscapes, the collection promises an experience specific to Coastal Boutique and Fine Dining Restaurants. Organic form of Tone collection takes inspiration from scalloped sea shells as well as flamenco dresses and waves of Mediterranean.
- Research
- Having online and face to face surveys with sector professionals, chefs and restaurant owners before and through the design process for feedbacks and a valuable starting point gave the product family a solid foundation for real needs in terms of dimensions and visual integrity. The mediterranean inspiration also lead to reflect the design language from local to global perspective easily.
- Challenge
- To combine a hand made ceramic feeling with a mass produced product family is a real challenge for a design process like in Tone collection. The main goal was to have better results in terms of sustainability, stackability and longer life span due to harder material and glazes compared to similar ceramic products.
- Realization and Technology
- All Tone collection members are made of premium vitrifed body. With minimal energy consumption and low carbon emissions during production, Tone is an environmentally friendly product family with Bonna’s once fired premium vitrified body. Its ceramic workshop feel, durability and stackability compared to ceramic products provide a visually pleasing, functional, long life and environmentally satisfying experience.
- Operation and Interaction
- The collection promises an experience specific to Coastal Boutique and Casual Fine Dining Restaurants. Besides providing a visually pleasing ceramic workshop feel and sustainability , the collection also fullfills the main requirements of Horeca sector; such as functional sizes and volumes for a wide variety of occasions, long life cycle and stackability; by which excelling other ceramic products. Design aims to offer perfect solutions to many different environments with its easily adaptable, slightly abstract design language. Also perfectly matched with round scalloped dishes and amorph complementaries of Bonna and other companies; which gives the user open end mix&match compatibility.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project took around 6 months to design and see the productions of first prototypes at second half of 2023. It is exhibited in 2024 Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt first.
- Specifications
- The collection consists of 11 different tableware items. The sizes differ from 100 to 360 mm wide and 15 to 70 mm height. The collection, which consists of 11 different stoneware items so far, aims to offer perfect solutions to many different environments with its easily adaptable, slightly abstract design language. Also perfectly matched with round scalloped dishes and amorph complementaries of Bonna and other companies; which gives the user an open end mix&match compatibility.
- Keywords
- sustainable, mediterranean, vitrified, bonna, ceramic, tableware, premium, casual dining, boutique, horeca
