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Cristina Orozco Cuevas Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Textile Braille Educational-teaching, Tactile in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design
Cristina Orozco Cuevas honored for textile, fabric, textures, patterns and cloth design by the international grand jury of the 2013 - 2014 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 26, 2014 /DesignNewswire/ Textile Braille Educational-teaching, Tactile by Cristina Orozco Cuevas has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2013 - 2014 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.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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.
More About Textile Braille Educational-teaching, Tactile
Industrial universal jacquard textile thought as a translator for blind people. This fabric can be read by people with good sight and it is intended for them to help the blind people who are starting to lose sight or having vision problems; in order to learn the braille system with a friendly and common material: fabric. It contains the alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks. No colors are added. It is a product on grey scale as a principle of no light perception. It is a project with social meaning and goes beyond commercial textiles.
About Cristina Orozco Cuevas
My work can be described as a chameleon. I am a designer that elevates any client's idea, adapt or either can create the idea or project analyzing companies. My work is unique because I consider myself an hybrid between art, design + technician. All my creations have backgrounds of art creation and I combined that with years of expertise in technical knowledge and the use of technology. Few designers and studios have what it takes to understand that form of creation.
Award Record
Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2013 - 2014 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Award
The A' Textile Design Award is an international textile design competition recognizing good textile designs by best textile designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to textile designers, fabric engineers, texture and pattern creators and clothing companies from all countries. Typical entries include structural fabric, engineered cloth, smart textiles, technical textiles, woven fabric and jacquard fabric. The awarded textile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/textile
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/30206
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/30206
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!30206
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/127995
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://cristinaorozcocuevas.com/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Textile Braille Educational-teaching, Tactile
- Function
- Educational-teaching, Tactile
- Category
- Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Light Gray, Silver and Black
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Cristina Orozco Cuevas
- Country
- Mexico
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2013 - 2014
- Design ID
- #30206
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Industrial weave thought as a transalator for blinded people or visually impaired.This fabric can be read by people with good sight and it is intended for them to help blinded people or people that are starting to have vision problems to make a progress while learning at the same time. It is developed on greys because it applies the principle of no light perception. it contains alphabet, numbers, punction marks and more.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration starts to find other more friendly materials to instruct and learn the braille system than paper and metal plaques, using and studying the braille system of six points or cells.
- Research
- I made for months a research on weave techniques and yarns interaction in order to get the aproppiate volume in order to work for real not just for a prototype.I presented to a special organization for blinded people and they said it really work and people could read the points or cells in grey. Also it was easy for the interpreter to get close to braille language. It can be calisified as a non-commercial textile but it can be used on campaigns even woven with colors to support entities or organizations.
- Challenge
- The first test to do a textile was using just some techniques of yarns with different thickness. The result was weak so the project stopped untill I found a technique of weaves that uses three yarns on three layers. The most important layer is the last one, because it uses a very thick yarns which pushes the middle yarn. The principal yarn uses very opened weaves so it allows to make the volume visible and touchable. All the horizontal yarns had to be tors threads because without them the fabric could have hook problems with machines.
- Realization and Technology
- Polyester dyed in black and grey yarns woven in electronic jacquard looms. Sandwich special weave technique, satines and tafeta weaves.
- Operation and Interaction
- The people with difficulty of sight learn the alphabet by touching the six points of the braille reading from left to right. The helper reads the letters and touches too the braille. The idea accomplished is that people with low resources that cannot acces to special attention in order to learn can have a piece of fabric on their own placea. Fabrics are more frienfly to touch than paper or metal.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started in November, 2010 and finished in april, 2011. It has been exhibited in Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Central de Diseño, Matadero-Madrid, Zaragoza, Perú and Ecuador.
- Specifications
- Width of 1.40 meters. Rapport repeat: 35 cm width x 27 cm height
- Keywords
- Jacquard, braille, fabric, blind sight, textile, grey, educational, textile, socially friendly, identity
