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Kantors Creative Club Receives the Platinum A' Design Award for Lalique Wall Calendar in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Kantors Creative Club for graphics, illustration and visual communication design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Lalique Wall Calendar by Kantors Creative Club, designed for Lalique, has been granted the Platinum A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 Platinum A' Design Award Means
The Platinum A' Design Award is recognized for honoring designs that stand at the forefront of creativity and innovation. It is the highest accolade bestowed by the A' Design Awards, acknowledging works that blend remarkable innovation with impactful societal contributions. These designs not only showcase exceptional artistic and technical proficiency but also highlight their creators' commitment to advancing the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recipients of this award are celebrated for their role in shaping the aesthetics and trends of our time, contributing significantly to the enhancement of quality of life and promoting sustainable development.
More About Lalique Wall Calendar
Conceptual Calendar for French premium glass manufacture Lalique. Connecting the world of unique handmade glass production by a premium manufacturer and the world that is entirely handmade from paper. To create an amazing imaginary space in which the luxurious world of glass and visual art is combined. Together with perfect printing technology, large format, special effects and surface treatments, they form a breath-taking story that will entertain you all year long.Great attention was paid to every detail and also on extremely precise processing and the top-quality print result.
About Kantors Creative Club
David Kantor is a Czech designer, graphic designer, photographer and illustrator. He is artistic director and founder of Kantors Creative Club, which focuses on cutting edge packaging, graphic and product design as well as photography. He is the author of packaging designs, the creator of key visuals and productions for major Czech brands as well as foreign corporations. It is best characterized by an individual approach to projects, searching for specific graphic motifs, whether illustrations or photographs. It also features a distinctive graphic style, a straightforward approach to customers and years of industry experience.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kantors Creative Club is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award
The A' Graphic Design Award is an international graphic design competition recognizing good graphic designs by best creative agencies and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Typical entries include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. The awarded graphic designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/graphics
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/147674
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147674
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147674
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/341385
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/41cRlOu
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lalique Wall Calendar
- Function
- Wall Calendar
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Dark Slate Blue, Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray and Midnight Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lalique
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kantors Creative Club
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Recognition
- Platinum A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147674
Credits
- Team
- Grafico, David Kantor, Radomír Vysocký, David Kantor, Petr Vaněk, František Zvardoň, Pavla Hrůzová, Silvie Hrůzová, Jiří Lančarič and David Najbrt
- Image Credits
- All images: Kantors Creative Club, Photography: David Kantor, Petr Vaněk
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Conceptual Calendar for French premium glass manufacture Lalique. Connecting the world of unique handmade glass production by a premium manufacturer and the world that is entirely handmade from paper. To create an amazing imaginary space in which the luxurious world of glass and visual art is combined. Together with perfect printing technology, large format, special effects and surface treatments, they form a breath-taking story that will entertain you all year long.Great attention was paid to every detail and also on extremely precise processing and the top-quality print result.
- Inspiration
- Inspiration for our calendar comes from limitless creativity of Lalique artists. Through the whole production, each piece is made entirely by hand by many excellent workers.
- Research
- Everything around the glass is made entirely of paper, so it was necessary to find the right type of paper. We often had to bend it, break it and twist and we also needed a variety of paper colours. We also glued several of them on top of each other to create volume. It took a lot of time to try and test before we found the right type of paper for our work. Choosing the right glue was equally important. First, the blueprint for each topic had to be in the form of a sketch on paper and then converted into a flat form on a computer and divided into individual parts that were cut by laser. Then the individual parts had to be glued together to create the whole object.
- Challenge
- Each unique glass piece has a different format and form. We designed twelve paper worlds in which we could incorporate glass pieces in an original artistic way. We had to design, project, cut and glue together hundreds of paper pieces for all of the twelve visuals.
- Realization and Technology
- Calendar is made entirely by hand and only from paper.
- Operation and Interaction
- Large size wall calendar. One of the most notable calendar benefits that everyone greatly appreciates is its haptic function, thanks to additional surface technologies, such as extensive 3D embossing or UV varnishing. It's very amusing that you can run your hand over the leaves and feel every part of it. An essential part of the calendar is a separately attached image catalogue called Inside Stories, which describes each sheet of the calendar and the technologies used. It is an important part of the project to understand its origins and also the production of the calendar.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in September 2021 in Wingen-Sur-Moder France, manufactured in Ostrava and finished in December 2022 in Opava Czech Republic.
- Specifications
- Size 680 x 480 mm. Ofset printing on paper 250 g, CMYK + 9 Pantone colours. Additional technologies used for finishing are Foilstar, UV varnish, embossing, hot foil emboss.
- Keywords
- Lalique, calendar, paper, paper art, printing, conceptual work, glass, glasswork, photography, paper interiors
