Iron Street Furniture Design · 2017
Fairy Tail Magical bench
- A' Design Award 2017 Iron Winner in Street Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2017
- CLIENT: MAGMA graphics
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 16,763
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About Fairy Tail Magical bench
If you want to escape the tension of the busy world and distract yourself from the daily grind, a magical bench will carry you to the World of fairy tales. Inspired by an imaginary world, this bench could be your bridge to a place where you can be child again, no matter how old you are. Colorful and bright with unusual shape, it can transform the urban environment into a beautiful aerial lullaby. It will makes you feel like flying on an unicorn among the fluffy clouds, walking on the rainbow, catching a falling star. Make a wish and let it take you to the World of fairy tales.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The product can be categorized as street furniture and it is dedicated to the urban environment. Colorful and vivid with unusual shape, this bench can be installed in parks, alleys, rest areas.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 3500 mm x Depth 720 mm x Height 650 mm
- Tags
- Fairy Tail, Bench, Star, Rainbow, Unicorn, Cloud, Bubble gum, Furniture, Urban, Enviroment
- Production Technology
- Recycled plastic materials
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part was to keep the star shape and at the same time make it ergonomic.
- Project Duration
- 6 months, location - Bulgaria
- Operation Flow
- Bench for urban environment
- Research
- Initial web research for similar products, development process based on CAD simulations and ergonomic analysis.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by an imaginary world, this bench could be your bridge to a place where you can be child again, no matter how old you are. If you want to escape the tension of the busy world and distract yourself from the daily grind, this magical bench will carry you to the World of fairy tales.Colorful and bright with unusual shape, it can transform the urban environment into a beautiful aerial lullaby.
- Image Credits
- Vasil Velchev
Colors of Fairy Tail Magical bench
Grand Interview about Fairy Tail Magical bench
Urban furniture, most of the time is practical but due to the resistance requirements, they look a bit boring. I wanted to bring some magic to the environment.
Producing the individual parts and then assembling them was the most challenging thing from the engineering point of view. The easiest way was to cut them into small pieces but i didnt want to have any visible joints.
My master degree of electrical engineering was helpful indeed. Despite we don't have any electrical parts here, engineering thinking is very useful.
To achieve that, the first thing is using bright colors that can attract attention. The star as a side profile also refers to the magic fairy tales.
I didn't spend much time, playing with the shape, it became pretty interesting at the very early stage. Finding a way to assemble took me a while though.
Transforming the urban environment into something attractive and pleasant for all senses. This was my aim. Having not only common bench but a piece of art as well.
The concept of MAGMA is constant transformation of the idea. Even if the project is at 'desing freeze' stage. If the idea is good enough i could take various forms.
If i can give some kind of advice to the other designers working on public space installations, it would be "keep it simple". I think that my bench become too complicated at the end. Also, keep in touch with the manufacturers constanly. If something cannot be produced, you have to be aware at earlier stage.
I will be more than happy if this product can foster emotional connections among users. All urban furniture should generate only positive energy.
I think at some point will go back to this project again and will either create second version or will continue experiment with magical elements, implemented in urban products.