A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Goes to The Porthole Wall Light by Harry-Hongwei Yang

Harry-Hongwei Yang recognized for lighting products and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Porthole Wall Light by Harry-Hongwei Yang, designed for PER Design, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the A' Design Award Means

The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

About The Porthole Wall Light

The Porthole is a wall light inspired by the window of an airplane cabin. The light is controlled by sliding the shade panel upward. The lamp grows brighter as the shade opens, and reaches full brightness when the panel is completely open. The familiar form makes the operation easy to understand without instruction. The LED panel is coated with sodium peroxide nanoparticles that scatter light and separate different wavelengths, giving an effect similar to sunlight passing through the atmosphere. The wall light measures 225 by 300 by 55 millimetres.

About Harry-Hongwei Yang

Harry-HongWei Yang is a designer who sees through things in a unique perspective. He always thinks different about relationships between product and users.The forms are often defined following functions and emotions.He is awarded by several awards for his innovative design.And because of the brand new product the brand survives among the market as a newly start-up.

Award Record

This recognition makes Harry-Hongwei Yang a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award

The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/lighting

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://desingers.org/137103
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137103
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137103
Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/269599

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: The Porthole Wall Light
Function: Wall Light
Category: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Discipline: Industrial Design
Industry: Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Dark Gray, Silver, Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Slate Gray
Images: 5
Client: PER Design

The Recognition

Laureate: Harry-Hongwei Yang
Country: Canada
Recognition: A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #137103

Credits

Team: Zheng Pan, Meng Sheng, Xinyuan Xu, Xiliang Liu, Zijie Zhang, Peiwen Yang and Haojie Wang
Image Credits: #5: Designer Harry-Hongwei Yang, Variations, 2022.

Design Details

Unique Properties: "The Porthole" combines emotion and function perfectly. It comes in a familiar form and controlling way that people can recognize so they do not even need to learn how to turn on the light. The porthole touches mind especially when they appears in the house people live. The scene is changeable and can be customized. The scenario creates a unique touchable feeling and experience.
Inspiration: The inspiration is taken from the porthole of the airplane. Every time on the plane, the joy and the excitement for the trip inside my body.When turn up the window and light exudes,it feels like turn on the light. The wall light will remind people of their time spent on the airplane, heading to destination on travel, and full of joy and excitement. We want to bring these feelings to people, especially under the Coronavirus when people have to stay at home, we may feel lonely, sad, depressed, but when we turn up the light, look through “The Porthole”, it seems like we are on the plane at present, looking out the window, ready to face a brand new day.
Research: The wall light is not only an object hang on the wall. As it's on, its lighting panel can bring unlimited imagination. With creative design touches emotion , the light does not have to make people feel like a light, and the space people in does not have to feel like its in there room. This kind of "emotional" wall light is in lack.
Challenge: The challenge comes in controlling the lightness by sliding the glareshield. This kind of controlling is the hardest part to realize.
Realization and Technology: The LED lampshade panel is coated with Na2O2 nanoparticles, which can scatter light and decompose light of different wavelengths. The principle is similar to that of sunlight passing through the atmosphere, showing a lighting effect similar to that of sunlight.
Operation and Interaction: The lamp lights up in an attractive way by pulling up the window shade, the light becomes brighter while slowly opening the window. When the panel is completely open, the lamp will at its brightest.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in April 2021 and finished in Feburary 2022 in Shanghai.
Keywords: Wall Light, Porthole, homme, lighting