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Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture by Simina Filat Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Simina Filat of Simina Filat Design acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture by Simina Filat of Simina Filat Design has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2018 - 2019 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.
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 Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture
Ruumy was designed to be a multifunctional textile, furniture that can be transformed from an architectural wall into a wardrobe, into home decorative items, or even in garments, handbags, accessories, by dismantling parts and fitting the desired accessories. Ruumy is made of recycled materials and has the shape of a textile puzzle without edges. The design of this object helps contemporary nomads, to transport and pack their ambulatory universe easily and quickly, adapts spaces in which it cannot intervene constructively and combines elements of home decoration.
About Simina Filat
Simina Filhas been is a member of UAP, the Design Bucharest branch since 2018 and a member of the board of directors of tdepartmentnch since 2022. She graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies with 2 majors: Economic Management – Bachelor 2010; Accounting, Audit and Management Informatics – Master 2012, and in 2017 he graduated from the National University of Arts Bucharest with, a specialization in Fashion Design - Bachelor. From 2018 until now, she won the Design Award of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania; Worth Partnership Projects in Valencia, Spain; A' Design Award in Como, Italy, and was shortlisted in the Lexus Design Award 2018.
About Simina Filat Design
Simina Filat Design is a complex brand of design services, founded 9 years ago by the designer with the same name. Over time has produced hundreds of models, and in 2018 won the national Design Award, offered by the Union of Plastic Artists Romania.
Award Record
Simina Filat of Simina Filat Design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/84732
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/84732
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!84732
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/246223
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2UdnqpP
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture
- Function
- Multifunctional Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gold, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Antique White and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Simina Filat
- Country
- Romania
- Brand
- Simina Filat Design
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #84732
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019; Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019 Video Credits: Photographer Mihaela Tudor, 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Ruumy is a range of modular furniture with a design that can be combined to form room dividers, home decor panels, cabinets or even garments, and allows fast and easy packing. The design allows the wardrobe to transform into a garment, a bag or home decor. Carefully made of soft material, Ruumy is a modular cabinet in the shape of a puzzle with up to 10 highly functional end uses. The first aim is to help frequent movers to keep and easily transport some of their furniture.
- Inspiration
- Social movements, trends studied, people around, the wishes, demands of customers, the very rapid advancement of the technology, all these leads to the questions, How would it be if the wall of this room would also serve as a cabinet? What if the cabinet would become a coat? How would it be if you can dress the wall? The project is creating an online community of customers, to exchange or borrow pieces, what is old for you, it is new to me, that would promote contacts between newcomers and local people.
- Research
- Ruumy develops into a thinking program that creates a new media with projects, applied in co-design, sustainability, community, internet culture. Ruumy NetWorking is a co-creative program with the mission of inspiring a new way of thinking about aesthetics, function and role of the object in today's civilization, how we build our own life forms. The project started with 21 people from different cultural elites, they composed the desired pieces in a standard time, a project being filmed and documented.
- Challenge
- Ruumy is a product of the new Post Internet Culture era, specific to the co-creative ecosystem, economy, with motto The Power of Ecosystems - Managing in a Networked World. Once launched, becomes a relatively autonomous system of self-adjustment, and those who integrate resources are connected to communication networks and create mutual values. The difficulty of the project was to create creative, sustainable, innovative communities capable of changing mentalities in cultural and economic terms.
- Realization and Technology
- Our vision is that Ruumy is not thrown away, but can be exchanged in the online community. This way we can reduce the environmental pollution with the production of new textiles and increase the life of the product. The zipper system allows the user to transform his wardrobe into a garment, bag or home decor. We are using recycled materials, ends of textile bundle, and materials produced in small communities of craftsmen with local tradition.
- Operation and Interaction
- Ruumy is an object with a geometric shape that has the appearance of a puzzle wall, and whose parts have, by dismantling, mounting them using the zippers, different utilities. Depending on the number of parts and types of connectors, straps, accessories, you use, you can create different design objects, fashion garments. Partition Wall, Cabinet, Pillows, Tent, Hammock, Mobile Library, Shoe Organizers, Blanket, Sleeping Bag, Vertical Garden, Sofa Cushion, Outside Garment, Handbags, Travel Bags.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2017, and was exhibited in Galateca Gallery, Bucharest in July 2017, Exhibition DIPLOMA The Institute, Bucharest in October 2017, 15Design Gallery, Bucharest in May 2018, Romanian Design Week 2018 Bucharest in May 2018, Exhibition Zain design expressions Cluj Napoca in October 2018, The National Salon of Contemporary Art National Library of Romania in November 2018.
- Specifications
- Ruumy is a multifunctional modular textile puzzle where you can store things, you can pack it with ease in a special bag for ruumy parts, with a weight of under 5 kilograms for a textile wall of 250 cm width, and 250 cm height, 49 small ruumy parts.
- Keywords
- Co-working, Community, Interconnectivity, CoDesign, Multifunctional, Modular, Sustainable, Furniture, Fashion.
