Press Release
Chia-Wei Chen Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for The Board Skateboard in Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
Chia-Wei Chen honored for vehicle, mobility and transportation design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Board Skateboard by Chia-Wei Chen, designed for Barry Chen, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding The Board Skateboard
The Board is a folding skateboard designed for easy transport and storage. The deck is made from 57 interlocking pivot hinges. By folding the hinges in one direction or the other, the classic cruiser shape is transformed into a perfect circle. In the circular form, The Board fits into a backpack and can be kept in narrow spaces or displayed as a decorative object at home. Aluminum, iron and plastic are used in the construction. The transformation process gives the design a clear visual appeal.
About Chia-Wei Chen
Chen Barry: I am a designer who is likes to observing novel things, I like to innovate design, and devise ideas from pursuing an original point as the core.Barry Chen can introduce other structure change instead of the original one, it will give the users disparate visual experience and surprise.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chia-Wei Chen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design Award
The A' Vehicle Design Award is an international vehicle design competition recognizing good vehicle designs by best vehicle designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to vehicle designers, mobility solution providers, transportation design studios and automotive engineers from all countries. Typical entries include cars, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, buses and trains. The awarded vehicle designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/vehicle
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://desingers.org/107083
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/107083
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!107083
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/245808
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Board Skateboard
- Function
- Skateboard
- Category
- Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Light Gray, Black, Gainsboro and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Barry Chen
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chia-Wei Chen
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #107083
Credits
- Team
- CHEN, CHIA-WEI
- Image Credits
- Main image:CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019 Optional; CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019 Optional; CHEN, CHIA-WEI,2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The skateboard is limited by its appearance and it is inconvenient for users to carry. The Board has a strong visual appeal of its transforming process. The structure makes it a completed circle which can be put in a backpack easily. Because of the circular appearance, it can be part of decorations at home or even place in the narrow space.
- Inspiration
- Most of the users have the stereotype in the usage of the products. If we get rid of the general form changing, there will be a different scenario for the users. The form changing process gives the users visual feeling and the intensity of it will be different depend on the various structures.
- Research
- Transformation is not just the change in appearance, but also the consideration of factors such as space, time, and circumstance to strengthen the purpose of transformation and the psychological level. In today’s product design, in order to make transformable products satisfy the users’ need, the designers usually introduce the transformable features to make them easy to carry and multifunctional simultaneously.
- Challenge
- Biggest challenges was manufacturing its complex dynamic structure and is considering open-sourcing the design as a DIY kit for 3D printers.
- Realization and Technology
- Aluminum,Iron,Plastic
- Operation and Interaction
- The skateboard is made from 57 interlocking pivot hinges, by folding the hinges one direction or the other, transforming the classic cruiser shape into a perfect circle. Easy to fit in smaller places and even used for decoration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design start in 2018 finish in 2019 July.
- Specifications
- Perfect circle / H:118 W: 305 L:335 cruiser shape /H:118 W: 152 L:626
- Keywords
- The Board, Circle, Skateboard, Folding, Transform
