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Superstrata Bike and Ebike by Arevo Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
Arevo honored for vehicle, mobility and transportation design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Superstrata Bike and Ebike by Arevo, designed for Superstrata, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.
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.
More About Superstrata Bike and Ebike
Superstrata is a bicycle offered in both pedal-powered and electric versions. The Superstrata frame is 3D printed in a single pass from thermoplastic carbon fiber composite, forming a unibody structure with no joints or bolts. This construction increases strength and gives the frame a smooth appearance. The frame has no seat tube, and the electric version holds the battery inside a tube. Each frame is printed to the body measurements of the owner, including height, inseam and wingspan, so riders of many sizes can be fitted.
About Arevo
AREVO is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in complex additive manufacturing. Through proprietary 3D printing technology, Arevo partners with product designers and manufacturers to develop and produce products featuring ultrastrong, lightweight continuous carbon fiber parts manufactured at scale. Supported by a print farm in Vietnam, Arevo is reinventing the way composite parts are made for production and scale.
Award Record
With this recognition, Arevo 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/137815
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137815
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137815
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/315696
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://superstrata.bike/
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
- Superstrata Bike and Ebike
- Function
- Bike and Ebike
- Category
- Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive
- Colors
- Light Gray, Silver, Dark Gray, Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Superstrata
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Arevo
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #137815
Credits
- Team
- Branch Creative
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Superstrata features an unconventional, no seat tube design and an in tube battery (in the ebike version) for a sleek, aerodynamic ride. The Superstrata frame is crafted via unibody construction, 3D printed in a single pass from carbon fiber thermoplastic composite, and free of joints or bolts of any kind, a global first. This improves not only the strength but also the aesthetic of the bike. Because the frame is 3D printed, each can be customized based on the body measurements of the owner.
- Inspiration
- Carbon fiber frames have long been the premium choice of avid cyclists. Yet the thermoset carbon fiber composite and molded manufacturing processes used in traditional carbon fiber bikes are costly and limited in terms of customization. By employing thermoplastic carbon fiber composite and proprietary 3D printing technology, Superstrata realizes an eye catching, no seat tube design with unprecedented potential for customization and personalization.
- Research
- Since their invention in the 19th century, bicycles have remained popular as their makers have continued to look for innovations in bike designs. In recent years, carbon fiber has become the ideal material for bicycles due to its simultaneous and contradictory stiffness and lightness. By employing next generation thermoplastic carbon fiber composite and 3D printing technology, Superstrata pushes the boundaries of what a carbon fiber bike can offer through its eye catching design and unprecedented customization capability.
- Challenge
- Every part of the Superstrata frame has its own geometry and load scenarios, and its composite parts will have their own optimum positioning of carbon fibers to meet these requirements. Realizing this unconventional, no seat tube design with elegant curves that maintains strength and stiffness took us nearly four years, countless iterations, and ten distinct versions.
- Realization and Technology
- Superstrata’s frame is 3D printed from thermoplastic carbon fiber composite using a patented process. Our proprietary software engineers the directionality of carbon fibers before a robot arm bonds them together with melting polymer to create a strong, streamlined, unibody structure free of joints or bolts. This process enables a bicycle frame with an unconventional, no seat tube design that remains highly impact resistant.
- Operation and Interaction
- Each Superstrata frame is 3D printed based on its owner’s body measurements (height, inseam, ankle height, knee height, and wingspan), thereby accommodating riders from 4'7 to 7’4. Superstrata’s components and colors are also customizable, enabling total possible combinations of more than 500,000. Superstrata comes with both multi speed version and single speed version (Superstrata Solo).
- Project Duration and Location
- Superstrata was launched in a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in July of 2020 with 7 million USD raised from over 4000 backers. It was developed and designed at Arevo’s R&D offices in Silicon Valley and manufactured in mass scale at the company’s 3D printing farm in Vietnam. Superstrata was exhibited at the tech conference, Web Summit 2021, the frontier materials forum, PuzzleX 2021, and the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2022.
- Keywords
- Bicycle, ebike, carbon fiber, 3D printing, unibody
