announced: A' design award and competition reveal 2023 winners

WE SHOWCASE 20 WINNERS FROM A’ DESIGN AWARD AND COMPETITION

Year after year, the A’ Design Award and Competition gives deserved recognition to great design, and 2023 is no different. On April 15, one of the largest international design award platforms announced 1884 Winners from 114 countries in 140 different design disciplines, setting a tremendously high bar for 2024 participants. To recognize and celebrate the remarkable 2023 winners, designboom showcases 20 designs from an event space covering an abandoned quarry to a water droplet inspired chair.

As curtains close on the 2023 contest, registration opens for the 2024 A’ Design Award and Competition, here.

Maitreya Dharma by Guanghai Cui, 2023
image credit: Guanghai Cui

name: Maitreya Dharma
designer: Guanghai Cui
award: Platinum

category: Architecture, Building and Structure Design

Perfectly covering the abandoned quarry in the shape of a flower bud in plan, the single continuous space holds large audiences of 4500 people and form a splendid interior for the monks and believers to pay respect for Maitreya.

EXPERT JURY JUDGES OVER 140 DESIGN CATEGORIES

The A’ Design Award & Competition facilitates design enthusiasts and aficionados to be awe-struck by the quality of the winner’s designs. Innovators can enter into one of 140 different categories, before the winners are carefully hand picked by the team of established jury members. Categories range from furniture design, decorative items and homeware design, to architecture, building and structure design, interior space and exhibition design, as well as packaging design and lighting project design – to name a few. The myriad of options along with the international jury panel, allows the most niche of designs to be judged fairly and then given the platform to shine.

Tension Instrument by Lihan Jin, 2023
image credit: Lihan Jin

name: Tension Instrument
designer: Lihan Jin
award: Gold

category: Architecture, Building and Structure Design

Inspired by Dvorak’s New World Symphony, the prototype originates from a piece of wood bent by a string in tension. The concert hall is an orchestration of walls, balconies, and acoustic panels, which are developed from the prototype by different scales and tectonics.

Szhk Science and Technology Project by Aedas, 2023
image credit: Aedas

name: Szhk Science and Technology Project
designer: Aedas
award: Gold

category: Architecture, Building and Structure Design

The 250m main building recalls the form and extending gesture of the Chinese parasol tree whilst also responding to the urban texture.

Water Ripples by Kuo-Hsiang Kuo, 2023
image credit: Kuo,Kuo-Hsiang

name: Water Ripples
designer: Kuo,Kuo-Hsiang
award: Silver

category: Furniture Design

Water Ripples presents the image of the condensed state of ripples flowing up and down, just like the frozen water surface, bringing users an interesting and novel atmosphere.

Jaipur by Sonal Tuli, 2023
image credit: Sushant Verma

name: Jaipur Furniture Collection
designer: Sonal Tuli
award: Gold

category: Furniture Design

The Jaipur collection, a design narrative by Within is an untold story of the vibrant pink city of India. It celebrates the spirit and heritage of the city, drawing inspiration from its architecture and blue pottery – a traditional craft of Jaipur.

Phantom by Jun Wang, 2023
image credit: Jun Wang

name: Phantom
designer: Jun Wang
award: Bronze

category: Furniture Design

The Phantom Chair features a futuristic design that combines Bauhaus-style minimalism with avant-garde elements, by integrating transparent glass with seating.

The Shape of Old Memory by Bingrou Chen, 2023
image credit: Akun

name: The Shape of Old Memory
designer: Bingrou Chen
award: Platinum

category: Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design

The creation of this series of works comes from the Chen’s thinking on the innovative application of traditional craft culture in contemporary design and its highly innovative value.

Blue Ants by Yi Yin, 2023
image credit: Yihao Huang

name: Blue Ants
designer: Yi Yin
award: Gold

category: Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design

Blue ants, was inspired by the famous historical event in China, the “Cultural Revolution”. During this decade, people regardless of gender and age, completely spontaneously wore uniform blue overalls, so they were called “blue ants” by people in other countries.

Objects Come Alive by Fengsheng Cai, 2023
image credit: Fengsheng Cai

name: Objects Come Alive
designer: Fengsheng Cai
award: Silver

category: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design

Inspired by poetry, the beauty of movement is created by the plants described in the haiku as they change in response to their environment.

Flora Mushroom by Haile Wu, 2023
image credit: Haile Wu

name: Flora Mushroom
designer: Haile Wu
award: Bronze

category: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design

Mushroom appearance symbolizes protection, uniqueness, and warmth. Flora mushroom light conveys a sense of warmth to people who come back home late and becomes a bridge for people to connect with nature.

Altocumulus by Jun Wang, 2023
image credit: Jun Wang

name: Altocumulus
designer: Jun Wang

award: Bronze

category: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design

The whole product is in the shape of a rain cloud, and the lamp rope switch is like a hanging raindrop, bringing a vivid lighting experience and process to the user.

Snyearth by Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao, 2023
image credit: Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao

name: Snyearth
designer: Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao
award: Iron

category: Digital and Electronic Device Design

The design is inspired by the hovering globe, and by displaying the world time on the globe, the time of different regions can be displayed more intuitively.

Trido by Artur Tikhonenko, 2023
image credit: Artur Tikhonenko

name: Trido
designer: Artur Tikhonenko
award: Silver

category: Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design

The inspiration came from the ideas of origami, abstract sculpture, and platonic solids geometry, while the patented magnetic system made these classic shapes function as a novelty tool.

Deji Cultural Complex by Masato Kure and Masashi Ota, 2023
image credit: Inter_mountain

name: Deji Cultural Complex
designer: Masato Kure and Masashi Ota
award: Platinum

category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design

The designers believe what satisfies people when shopping is not just simply buying product, but it is the entire experience before and after it. Kure and Ota designed the facility not just to offer a beautiful place, but to provide a space that people can enjoy quality time.

Poly City Gather by Melody Lau, 2023
image credit: One Thousand Degrees Vision

name: Poly City Gather
designer: Melody Lau
award: Gold

category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Instead of using intricate adornment, the designer chooses to reverse function and deconstruct form. By extracting simple shapes and bright elements from the complexity of all nature, creativity is tied to the spatial scenes to radiate constant vitality in the harmony of functional layout, aesthetics, and sensory pleasure.

Moli Landscape by Bo Zhou, 2023
image credit: Tan Xiao, TOPIA

name: Bo Zhou
designer: Moli Landscape
award: Gold

category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design

This project realizes the combination between mountains and rivers, evoking spiritual echo in commercial space. By drawing on the oriental and contemporary characteristics of landscape and shaping the present and future of business, the designer’s vision for Moli Landscape Restaurant maintains the economic benefits of the location.

Changsha Fundoland by Xiang Li, 2023
image credit: SFAP

name: Changsha Fundoland
designer: Xiang Li
award: Silver

category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design

In order to create an offline social entertainment metaverse where visitors could experience its rich layers and deep exploratory elements, the Li incorporated train like installations as a symbol to complete the narrative of leading visitors to escape from the boredom of everyday life.

Frozen Splash by Hassan Taher, 2023
image credit: Hassan Taher

name: Frozen Splash
designer: Hassan Taher
award: Bronze

category: Photography and Photo Manipulation Design

Hassan Taher has always been inspired with the flying food and liquids photography from people like Karl Taylor, Ali Arbes and others which also inspired him to try it himself, where he was able to come with unique results.

Yimu Fount by Shenzhen Yimu, 2023
image credit: Shenzhen Yimu Technology Co

name: Yimu Fount
designer: Shenzhen Yimu
award: Iron

category: Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design

With the increasingly severe water pollution, people pay more and more attention to drinking water safety.  Shenzhen Yimu hopes to realize an intelligent water purifier with a smart control system to ensure drinking water’s safety and visually present the filtering effect.

Lalique by Kantors Creative Cluba, 2023
image credit: Kantors Creative Club

name: Lalique
designer: Kantors Creative Club
award: Platinum

category: Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design

Inspiration comes from limitless creativity of Lalique artists. Through the whole production, each piece is made entirely by hand by many excellent workers.

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