The Italian Job: 2018 A' Design Award & Competition

The 2018 A' Design Award & Competition mainly 'aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products worldwide in all creative disciplines and industries.'.A' Design Award and Competition is dedicated to recognising and appreciating some of the best designs and best-designed products across the world, be it in the forms of concept stage, prototype or finished products. The winners of the competition are thereby showcased at the A' Design Award Gala-Night and Exhibition which is held in Italy.There is a wide scope of the design award & competitions, featuring 100 varied categories such as.Furniture Design,Packaging Design,Lightning Design,Toy Design,Digital Devices Design and so on..The event and initiative is something that is recognised all over the world and coveted by a lot of varied agencies, designers, innovators and the likes – a global platform with a global audience. are currently open..The deadline for entries is the 28th of February, 2018, (23.59 GMT +1).The Winners of 2017 A' Design Award.Category: Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design.1. A chairs by Yi-An Hung, Yestudio.Multi-functional chairs that could be modified according to environmental setting and be transformed into a table, chair, bench, box or tube with a simple push and pull methods to change the formation and function of the chairs. The fundamental research thus was put in was mainly in the direction of trying to design a prototype of simple furniture that could act and be used for multiple purposes by just manipulating within its design.More here.2. Sagano Bamboo Furniture Chair and lamps by Alice Minkina.The project was essentially about finding new possibilities and aesthetic features connected to the use of bamboo and finding some interesting ways of applying it in the form of furniture. Sagano bamboo furniture is thus an innovative eco-friendly furniture set – bamboo is so fast-growing that its life cycle is way shorter than using other trees, therefore making the use of this wood more efficiently.More here.3. HexBOX File Cabinet by Kemal Yıldırım.The design of the HexBOX was inspired by honey bees and their solidarity, and can be formed by increasing or decreasing the number of boxes and in alternative designs, such as single, triple and sextuple in different width and height dimensions. At the same time, aesthetically, visual differences can be obtained by using different colors and materials in the drawers, which operate with telescopic tracks.More here.Packaging Design.1.'Pasta Nikita' packaging by Nikita Konkin.Using the shapes of pasta strands to create an interesting series of packaging that captures attention on the shelves, Pasta Nikita's packaging was designed. Trying to connect the food to its lovers by showing the interconnection between the two, the packaging attempts to entice latter.More here.2. Cafes Guilis by Michal Sicinski - Studio Punkt Widzenia.Assuming the basic laws of good design i.e. utility, economy and idea, the idea proved key to a rather simple solution – using the international designation of countries which the coffee came from as leitmotif of packaging this series. The main aim was to display the value of the brand and focus on the message and information, keeping it readable, understandable and outstanding.More here.Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category.1. Punjab Kesari Headquarters Office by Amit Gupta: Britta Knobel Gupta.The inspiration was to translate a traditional Indian facade pattern by using digital simulations to create a responsive built form. Designed as a "Fusion" of traditional Indian architecture and contemporary office space, the main objective is to reduce heat gain and optimize facade opening ratio, ensuring no artificial lighting is required on a typical day.More here.2. Gallery in Kiyosato Villa with Exhibition Space by Satoshi Okada architects.The architecture needed to mould itself onto fluctuating social demands, such as the present demographic trends and the decrease of population Japan as elsewhere in the world. The aim thus was to pursue flexibility through innovative structural systems. The first imagery came from the landscape of Kiyosato.More here