Tangram Jewellery Collection by Juan Juan Hu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design

Juan Juan Hu acknowledged for jewelry design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Tangram Jewellery Collection by Juan Juan Hu, designed for Zhejiang Ming Jewelry Co.,Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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 Tangram Jewellery Collection

Tangram is a jewelry collection made of seven single pendants and chain accessories. The collection offers flexible ways of wearing. Each pendant can be worn alone or connected to other pendants by the chain accessories, so wearers can create varied forms. The seven colors follow the colors of the rainbow. The design is inspired by tangram, a traditional Asian puzzle toy of seven pieces. The pieces are made of 18k gold, and 3D printing is combined with enamel handcraft. The surface lines and texture formed by 3D printing are kept and matched with colored enamel.

About Juan Juan Hu

Juan Juan Hu interests in jewelry design include the application of traditional culture in contemporary jewelry, combination of jewelry design and cultural industry, research and application of morphological semantics and emotion in jewelry design, and study on the variability of jewelry function. While teaching jewelry design and product design in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), She also runs Juan Juan Jewelry Design Studio in Shanghai. During the design teaching in the university, Juan Juan Hu has made achievements in design theory research, establishment of school and enterprise project cooperation, and cultivation of new generation of design talents.

Award Record

Juan Juan Hu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2019 - 2020 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Jewelry Design Award

The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Entries typically include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. Awarded jewelry designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/jewelry

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/97715
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97715
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97715
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/268654

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Tangram Jewellery Collection
Function: Jewellery Collection
Category: Jewelry Design
Discipline: Fashion Design
Industry: Luxury and Fashion
Colors: Burly Wood, Wheat, Goldenrod, Bisque and Firebrick
Images: 5
Client: Zhejiang Ming Jewelry Co.,Ltd.

The Recognition

Laureate: Juan Juan Hu
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #97715

Design Details

Unique Properties: Tangram jewelry collection presents flexible manners of wearing, solving the problem of unchangeable jewelry forms. It can form interesting creative interactions with wearers. The collection has variability in function and flexibility in combination, which is also beneficial to consumers. This collection is made of seven single pendants and chain accessories. The seven single pieces could be worn as a single part. Also they could be connected to different pendants by chain accessories. The industrial technology of 3D printing and the technique of enamel handcraft are integrated in this collection.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from Tangram. Tangram is a traditional intelligence toy of ancient China, helping, with seven pieces of puzzles, to make various shapes, including figures, animals, alphabets and other elements, which are constantly changing and vivid, where this collection of Tangram jewelry is originated under such creative inspiration.
Research: Pendants are often designed in a fixed form in the jewelry industry. The Tangram series are inspired by tangram, a Asian educational toy. Designer has designed seven individual units to be structured in different number and manners into different pendants. The wearer can wear only one pendant as needed, or structure two or three units into the one they like. The process is interactive and playful. In brief, the series provides an interesting interaction between the wearers and the jewelry.
Challenge: The creativity of multiple and flexible wearing method is a great challenge. The combination of connection structure, handcraft and new technology is a creative way in making process. Also it's an extraordinary balance of Asian traditional culture and contemporary style.
Realization and Technology: The material used for this collection is 18k gold. The industrial technology of 3D printing and the technique of enamel handcraft are integrated. The lines and texture on the surface formed by 3D printing are retained, coupled with the colored enamel craft, making the coloring well matched with the texture formed by industrial machining.
Operation and Interaction: The series of products may leave spaces for wearers to interact with jewelry. The jewelry collection is made of seven single pendants, necklace and bracelet accessories. The seven single pieces could be worn as a single part. Also they could be connected to different pendants by chain accessories. The color of this series is derived from the seven rainbow colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple. A unique, playful and colorful interaction could be created by the wearers themselves at their own wills.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in Oct. 2018 and finished in Mar. 2019 in China
Specifications: Package: Length 160mm x Width 160mm x Heigh 50mm
Keywords: tangram, function, flexibility, enamel handcraft,3d Printing，interactive