This no-screws Dougong Table assembles like Lego and looks like art

Alright, who is ready for a table that looks like art and does not come with a frustrating IKEA assembly guide? Because Boston-based designer Mian Wei has created this beautiful piece of furniture that marries minimal aesthetic with cultural heritage. The Dougong blocks from ancient Chinese architecture play a central role in the build and concept of the grid table – think of it as an advanced Lego challenge! Mian Wei won the Silver A’Design Award for this grid table in the homeware and furniture category, showcasing his exceptional skills as a multimedia artist who brings to life ideas that blend industrial design and emotions seamlessly.

This is a no screws assembly – yes – there is no need to keep a track of the different screw sizes and the tiny anvil! The grid table relies on the ages-old Dougong method of interlocking blocks so effectively that it not only distributes weight evenly but also lays a strong foundation while experiencing history. The supporting structure (Dougong) is made of modular parts that can be easily disassembled and reassembled in need of storage and moving. The bracket connectors (Gong) slide easily into the beams (Dou) to form the weight-bearing structure and retain structural integrity when the table is being lifted. It is made of ash, maple, and plywood which brings tone and texture ‘to the table’ (I just had to take that opportunity!).

“This project, on the one hand, tries to go back to the root to reinvestigate the practicality and scalability and bring new life to the ancient tradition. On the other hand, the project seeks to explore new aesthetic possibilities of the structure with modern forms and production techniques” says Mian Wei. The grid table gives form to the visual of wisdom and can be a stand-alone accent piece in the room (while also holding your tea and books!) without being too bold. The table is minimal yet so intricate in what can only be described as ‘engineered art’. As the owner builds the table, the complexity fades away, and the sensible nature reveals itself – the complete opposite of what I have ever felt while assembling the simplest chest of drawers in my home.

Designer: Mian Wei

This sink adjusts to your water needs

Space isn’t readily available within the tightly packed apartments that make up the urban cities of today, so every square inch of space must be put to optimum use. This is where the benefits of this neat, water-saving sink really shine! This seemingly regular sink houses an adjustable partition plate that can be used to reduce the volume of the sink; this reduction in space doesn’t just limit the amount of water required, but simultaneously creates a draining board, freeing-up valuable space on the workspace.

It’s designs like this sink that makes us question why something so unique and seemingly obvious hasn’t existed before; it solves the space-related issue that is present within the compact homes of many of us whilst also combatting the growing water usage epidemic!

The Water-Saving Sink is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2019.

Designer: Tsang Ching Pun

Here are the hottest winning-designs from the A’ Design Award 2019

What makes the A’ Design Award stand out from others is its mission statement. It wants to find a common link between great design ACROSS all disciplines, and is committed to being a consortium or a common-ground for all sorts of good design. The A’ Design Award and Competition is more than just an awards program. It actively seeks good design, markets it, brings value to the project as well as the designer in the form of a wide range of value added services like a dedicated PR Campaign, a Gala Night with the world’s biggest design patrons and designers alike, a proof-of-creation document for your work, and even a platform to sell your design on.

The A’ Design Award’s perks aren’t just limited to winning designs, but also to participants. Your participation entitles you to a proof-of-creation document, inclusion in A’ Design’s Business Network, and the Design Fee Calculator service that lets you accurately price your design services for clients.

Judged by a grand jury of 209 elite designers and educators, here are a select few of A’ Design Award and Competition 2019’s winners. We’ve hand-picked some of our favorites from this year’s list of winners spanning categories such as Product Design, Lighting Design, Architecture, Furniture, Medical, and Social Design. Scroll down below to have a look at what’s making the waves this year in the design circuit! And don’t forget to register below to participate in the Competition next year to make the most of the opportunities that the A’ Design Award promises!

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YD Handpicks: Winning Designs from A’ Design Awards 2018-19

01. RoType Flexible Keyboard by Royole

The RoType is a neat, rollable keyboard. Unlike those hideous flexible silicone/TPU keyboards that you now find on novelty gadget shops, the RoType is slick, professional, and classy. With a miraculously transparent keyboard that embraces and becomes the surface you place it on, the RoType feels sort of like typing on air. The keyboard uses a special film which contains a hidden circuit. With a transparency of 92%, and a thickness of a dazzling 0.04mm, the RoType flexes, stretches and curls multiple times without deformation. The flexible hidden circuit allows you to type by simply touching the keys, giving it an incredibly feathery UX… and when not in use, rolls right back into the RoType’s robust metal case, which is practically 1/10th the size of a regular keyboard!

02. Hexa Passenger Drone by Maform Design

We’ve all secretly waited for drones to be powerful enough to lift humans, haven’t we? While VTOLs are still somewhere in the near future, the Hexa passenger drone is a pretty plausible concept that demonstrates how a drone that lifts a human could look. With 18 propellers arranged in two circles (12 outside, 6 inside), the Hexa has a flight time of around half an hour. Where would one be able to travel in that much time? Maform Design thinks the Hexa isn’t a transportation device but an experience device. Designed to give you the experience of piloting a vertical take-off and landing vehicle, Hexa’s all about allowing riders to experience the thrill and adrenaline of drone flight! Maybe with advancing battery technologies we’ll see the Hexa turning into a proper short-distance transport solution!

03. Right Angle Screwdriver by Qian Xiaowei and Ye Xinmin

Designed for portability, and to get into those tough-to-reach spots, the Right Angle Screwdriver is a neat multi-tool with interchangeable heads and the ability to maneuver itself into difficult spots thanks to its novel design that allows the screwdriver to bend 90°. The miter-joint not only lets you reach screws in recessed places, but the 90° bend even gives you the power to unscrew or screw with much more torque. The size of a pen, the Right Angle Screwdriver is an ideal piece of EDC for the tinkerer, and its multiple heads just extend the product’s versatility!

04. The Barisieur by Josh Renouf

The Barisieur is a concept that’s definitely garnered its deserving share of interest. Featured on YD as a conceptual one-of-a-kind product years ago, the Barisieur has developed a lot over time, becoming the award-winning product it is today. What is it? Basically the best alarm clock ever made, because rather than jolting you out of sleep with an alarming noise, it gently and effectively awakens your senses by brewing you a fine cup of coffee! The alarm is hooked to a water heater which transfers the water to a pour-over coffee filter that decants your brew as you awake to the aroma of coffee. Paired with a small vessel of milk on the side (and a tray for storing your sugar), the Barisieur proposes perhaps the most effective way to get you out of bed. With a hot cuppa!

05. Twig Dumbbells by Ji Hoon Lee

When you think about it, a twig-shaped dumbbell is rather ironic, right? The word twig is often used to describe skinny or scrawny arms or legs, while on the other hand dumbbells, well, they help bulk up arms. The Twig dumbbells are an innovative dumbbell design by Ji Hoon Lee. With a handle and three prongs on each side, the weight of these dumbbells can be changed simply by switching the prongs.
The prongs or branches of the Twig are individual weights. Different prongs come with different weights and you can simply switch them to make each individual Twig heavier or lighter… although they’re sure to always look visually light, thanks to their twig-like form. Wait! That’s probably the idea! To get you to psychologically lift more by fooling your eyes into thinking you’re lifting tiny, weightless branches! Pretty clever!

06. Sidekick Notebook by Tan Mavitan

The Sidekick is quirky, but has logic to it. An A5 notebook looks small on your desk, but open it and it doubles in size, becoming an A4, and occupying precious real estate on your desk. The Sidekick has no such problem. Its unusual shape and diagonal spine allows it to open into an ‘L’ shaped notebook that can easily sit at the corner of your keyboard, or your mousepad, or even tablet. The notebook won’t serve well for sketching, but makes a good note-taking pad, offering both landscape and portrait writing areas. Take notes, make doodles, or probably even sketch on it if you can, the Sidekick is that one notebook you won’t buy and put away only because you’ll love keeping it on your table to occasionally take notes, and to perpetually show off.

07. Tsutsumu Card Holder by Hirotaka Satoh

It’s incredible what one can achieve out of a single piece of leather. The Tsutumu card holder is made from a stamped piece of leather. That’s literally the only production process it went through (aside from the branding being stamped into it too). No glue, no stitches, no rivets. Just pure leather. Basing itself on the Japanese culture of wrapping valued items carefully (google Furoshiki), the Tsutumu comes flat-packed and can easily be folded into shape. Its design ensures it holds its shape while holding cards within it too!
Elegant, simple, stylish, and differently vibrant, the Tsutumu cases wrap around your cards in a way that looks beautiful and unusual. The leather ages with time, gathering a beautiful patina, but the case itself lives on for years and years!

08. Kurio Modular Shelfing System by Markus Hofko

Designed like a breadboard that you plug electrical elements into, the Kurio Modular Shelfing System comes with a universal base-platform that you plug planes into, to make shelves. Based on the size and quantity of items you want to keep on your shelf, you can build any layout you choose by simply plugging pieces together. Made from aluminum, the Kurio doesn’t use additional fixtures like screws or glue, just good old mechanical joineries that allow the planes to be pulled apart and rearranged whenever you choose!

09. Symphony Number 7 Chair by Chen Ting-Hsiang

Similar in spirit to the Butterfly Chair by Eduardo Garcia Campos, the Symphony 7 Chair is inspired by the softness and sweetness of the 7th Symphony by Beethoven. The rocking chair is made from a pipe frame, and comes with leather cushioning, combining comfort, strength, and an incredibly organic skeletal design that makes for a great silhouette. The chair looks even beautiful when paired together with another of its kind, creating a beautiful symmetry!

10. Grid Table by Mian Wei

Made entirely of interlocking wooden pieces, the Grid Table takes inspiration from Chinese wooden structures called Dougongs (Dou Gong). Dougong is essential to the timber frame structure of traditional Chinese building, as it binds the roof, girders and pillars together to distribute weight evenly. The Grid table brings that approach to table-design, with its top-heavy-yet-stable construction that does a great job of distributing the table’s weight, while also turning the Dougong construction technique into an artform, with its wonderful, Jenga-esque geometric aesthetic!

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YD Handpicks: 10 inpsiring works from A’ Design Awards 2016-17!

When it comes to award programs, I’m no silent advocate. It’s the one place that houses all the best designs, adding new projects to its list every year. As a designer myself, I just love scrolling through galleries, seeing what my contemporaries are up to. Plus, you never know when inspiration strikes. The mind works like a creative bank. The more you put in, the more it generates… and by that theory, just scrolling through a feed of incredible design is sure to spark your mind with creative genius. It’s worked for me!

A’ Design Award and Competition’s winner galleries are exceptional because they’re so incredibly diverse. No matter what you find interesting, there’s a category of winning designs for you, ranging all the way from Transportation, to Medical, to Architecture, Consumer Electronics, Toy Design, to even more niche categories like Social Design, Futuristic Design, and Differently-Abled Design (just think of a category, and it’ll be there). The aim of A’ Design’s diverse approach is to house all incredible works and projects under one single umbrella, and therefore be the go-to awards program for any and all creative work.

The point I’m trying to make is, the idea is to be inspired by looking at great work and then do great work yourself to inspire others, therefore helping the wheel of creativity and great design turn. In fact, here’s a set of 10 rather amazing pieces of work I found to be pretty inspirational. Just looking at these designs will get those creative juices flowing, and when they do, develop them into products that will garner attention, gather awards, and sit proudly in your portfolios, and on our site too! Go ahead… Scroll through!

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YD Handpicks: 10 Inspirational designs from the A’ Design Award and Competition 2016-17 Winners

01. Flike by Maform
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Undoubtedly James-Bond-ish in its approach, the Flike is a Flying Bike that puts a man on a tri-copter drone. Designed with an electric/hybrid power train, the Flike can go up to speeds of 100 km/h and can reach a height of 30 meters. These limits were set electronically, so as to maximize safety, and Maform says they’ve built working prototypes already… hmmm!

02. Silhouette Collection by Libero Rutilo

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Libero Rutilo’s work with PET bottles is nothing if not exemplary. Here’s a look back at the Leaf made by Libero that everyone instantly loved! The Silhouette collection shown here, gives PET bottles a second life by cladding them in intricately printed exoskeletons, turning them from boring pieces of plastic, to the most interesting vases you’ll own!

03. Fume by Hakan Gürsu
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Interesting fact. Hakan Gursu stands at the top of A’ Design’s World Designer Rankings with a mind-blowing total of 83 A’ Design Awards over the years! The Fume got him yet another award this year for its beautiful design. Just a simple tinted transparent acrylic cube, the Fume acts as a rather beautiful pen-stand for your alcohol markers (something designers swear by). Its design doesn’t just have them laid out in an interesting format, it even allows you to segregate them by hue into three zones… One for color, one for warm grays, and one for cool grays. Genius!

04. Renard GT by Andres Uibomäe

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The Renard GT tries to channel the spirit of a 1930s motorbike into a form factor that is modern and undeniably unique. The Renard GT’s carbon-fiber unibody integrates the motorcycle’s frame, fuel tank, and air box, while weighing just 9 kgs and looking so good, it could kill!

05. Filoferru by Robby Cantarutti
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Nice chair, right? It’s made from individually looped pieces of metal piping, giving it a hypnotic quality. The pipes form everything from the chair’s legs, to the backrest, to the seat to even armrests! I personally love how it looks like a Slinky was bent into forming a seating device!

06. SpiderPan by Receb Bilici
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Look out! Here comes the Spider-Pan!
The Spider-Pan was named so for its hexagonal design and its spider-leg inspired handles that do something rather wonderful. When you need to hold the pan like a saucepan, the handles fold outwards and join, to become an extended single handle. However, the handles separate and fold inwards too, forming two separate gripping points on either side of the utensil, perfect for heavier food items that need to be held with both hands. Ingenious, isn’t it? Plus, the handles when folded in are a great space saver in drawers and cabinets!

07. 01: Dimensioning Instrument by InstruMMents Inc.
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As a proud owner of the 01 Dimensioning Pen by InstruMMents, I have to say… it’s absolutely spoiled me for scales and tape measures. The pen features a one of a kind rolling ring and a laser pointing guide that allows you to simply (and digitally) capture measurements both regular and non-linear with sheer accuracy. All measurements (accurate to the nearest 1/10th of a millimeter, get stored on the InstruMMents app, allowing you to save data for later use. Plus, the pen itself comes with interchangeable pencil, roller-ball, and stylus heads!

08. Paq by Maform
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Maform’s second project to feature on this list isn’t as detailed or as intense as its previous one, but it explores something fun and quirky. The Paq, a seating made entirely from a sheet of foam and a cylinder, serves as a sitting stool and mattress when opened out, but by virtue of clever design, turns into a rather fun beanbag-inspired chair with a backrest that can be set up by not just adults, but by children (with a little practice) too! Pretty interesting form exploration, don’t you think??

09. Ji Mu by Bowen Qian
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Using just a series of wooden ‘L’ sections, Bowen Quian creates a variety of furniture pieces by just fixing them at different places. The simple L shaped wooden ply pieces become a chair with a backrest but lay them out in a square shape, and you have a table who’s height matches perfectly with your L Chair. You can even make a wine bottle holder, or a magazine holder by fixing them together in an X shaped layout! What other orientations and products can you think of using these innovative wooden ‘L’ sections??

10. DuoSkin by Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
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DuoSkin presents the future of body-art that just doesn’t serve the purpose of art, but involves an element of interaction design too! The thin metal foil laid out on the skin has the ability to conduct electricity, or even act as a sensor, becoming one of the first fashion-oriented bio-tech products, not just serving a medical purpose, but even going as far as becoming interfaces for the products we use. Imagine being able to type out messages on your skin, or unlock your door with a pattern drawn on your fore-arm, or initiating a 911 emergency call using a secret button placed against your skin. The possibilities are literally endless!

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YD Handpicks: Winning designs from the A’ Design Awards 2016-17

Another year, another set of incredible designs from the A’ Design Awards and Competition! The winners this year set a benchmark for the years to come. We’ve mentioned before how winning a design competition puts a feather in your cap, but winning the A’ Design Award can propel not just your career, but even your designs forward, helping them reach a larger audience of patrons and design enthusiasts (and a lot more!).

We’ve hand-picked ten of our favorites from this year’s list of winners spanning categories such as Product Design, Lighting Design, Architecture, Transportation, Medical, and Social Design. Scroll down below to have a look at what’s making the waves this year in the design circuit! And don’t forget to register below to participate in the Competition next year! You can even nominate your favorite designs and help them secure an A’ Design Award!

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YD Handpicks: 10 Winning Designs from A’ Design Awards 2016-17

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The Textura Braille Smartphone by Isa Verde didn’t just win a prize, but it also won our hearts a while back when we first covered it. Read more about it here!

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Say hello to this shape-shifting chandelier. The inMOOV Adjustable movable lamp by Studio Lieven is a marine-life inspired ornate origami lighting that can be adjusted to take on different avatars, just with a slight push!

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It was a no-brainer that the Art4leg 3D printed prosthetic by Tomas Vacek would make it to this list. I kind of like it more than the leg I already have! Plus, the leg’s pattern is designed to look pretty while staying light and taking a lot of vertical stress.

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The Only Clock by Vadim Kibardin is rather simple. It combines the beauty of a frame with the functionality of the clock. Not only can you read the time in a simple format, you can even look through the clock at the wonderful cityscape!

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If 3D printing is revolutionizing manufacturing, the Happaratus sculpture tool by Morten Grønning is rapidly changing model-making. Imagine being able to sculpt with your fingers. That’s what the Happaratus does. Small grinding and sanding machines strap to your fingers, allowing you to sculpt unbelievably complex and organic surfaces by just running your fingers across a material.

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You don’t require much therapy at the Manshausen Wellness Spa by Snorre Stinessen. It cantilevers over a precipice, giving you an unconditionally beautiful look at the vast and calming sea. That’s pretty much all the therapy you’d need!

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Forget what you knew about thermometers. This Non Contact Thermometer by Tobia Repossi can actually measure your body temperature accurately to 1/10th of a degree… without even touching you!

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This sheet-metal ‘blanket’ on the Noor Island Park by 3deluxe architecture combines intricate Arabian ornamentation along with parametric surfacing. The result? A beautiful, organic, hypnotic piece of architecture!

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The Raven Kick scooter by Ignas Survila may look familiar. That’s because we wrote about it right here after it won the Red Dot! Now armed with an A’ Design Award, this ultra-portable scooter is ready to set your streets on fire!

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The Espire Full Face Gas Mask by Carlos Schreib is exactly what safety masks should look like. Not only does it purify the air going into your nose and mouth, it even guards your eyes from smoke, dust, and harmful chemicals. What’s more, it cleverly creates a wall between the breathing zone and the viewing zone so you don’t have to worry about your visor fogging up with your breath!

A’ Design Awards & Competition – Winners 2015-16

What is the purpose of design awards? To celebrate good design? Absolutely. How about to reward good design as well? The A’ Design Awards and Competition, as I’ve said before, not only recognizes good design, but gives it the good exposure it needs and deserves. This helps not just the designer, but the design grow too. Where else can you have your design viewed and judged by a jury panel of over 70 of the industry’s finest and most seasoned designers?? Aside from that, the A’ Design Awards and Competition work towards making sure good design is universally recognized, appreciated, and in many cases, taken forward.

Scroll down to see the designs that won the A’ Design Award this year. We’ve handpicked 15 of the finest designs, but if you’re still hungry for more good design, check out all the winners here.

Lockblock by Dan Kulp
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Knives are dangerous, especially in the hands of your children. The Lockblock is ingeniously designed to lock your knives in a way that only adult hands can open them. They boast of 96% accuracy!

i.Dummy Leggs by Dr. Allan Chan & Gordon Wong
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Humans come in all shapes and sizes. Mannequins should too. The i.Dummy is a shape-shifting mannequin that can morph to replicate multiple body types, making it the foundation for a more inclusive fashion industry.

Coral Flower Vase by Steve Lee
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The Coral Flower vase is an absolutely beautiful, organic vase design with a network of hollow tubes that intersect each other to create something that looks absolutely ethereal.

Spyker Trivet by Prompong Hakk
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The Spyker Trivet is a stand for hot utensils that can fold up and slide into the tiniest of cabinets when not in use. Its food-grade silicone covers come in a variety of colors. Yummy!

Green Science by Flora Lam & Bonnie Mak & Ricky Wong
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I’d say it’s important for kids these days to grasp science principles, as well as learn their best about making the earth a greener and better place. The Green Earth games kit does both!

memobottle™ by Jesse Leeworthy
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The Memobottles bring a much needed newness into the bottle-design domain! Using paper sizes as a reference, these bottles are super-slim, reusable, and can easily slip into your bags.

Shadowbrook 3D Printed Faucet by DXV
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We’ve all seen the Shadowbrook faucet somewhere or the other. This beautiful 3D printed tap looks organic and futuristic at the same time. Not to mention drop dead gorgeous!

Trempel Hanger by Viktor Puzur & Mihail Puzur
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The Trempel reuses large cardboard tubes in an unusual way. It uses them to hang clothes. Although I highly doubt our clothes will ever be as stylish as these hangers.

Qwikflip 6-IN-1 Activity Center by Grow’n Up R&D Team
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The Qwikflip is for the restless and energetic child. Designed to be six games/toys in one, the Qwikflip will ensure your kid is always on his toes, occupied, and never bored!

Smarter USB Adapter by inDare Design & Baseus Manufacture
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Something about the Smarter seems right. Why can’t the charger do more than just charge? Why can’t it display relevant charging information as well? All our electronic items multitask, and maybe our charging adapters should too.

Turn-Lock by inDare,Ge Wai Design Management Co.,Ltd.
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The Turn-Lock presents quite an elegant solution for combining door handles with locks. Just by marrying the two into a sleek and unified avatar.

ageLOC Me by Nu Skin Enterprises
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AgeLOC Me’s anti-ageing skincare solution looks like putting your hand through a time-machine to make you younger. I guess that logic really adds to the ageLOC Me’s innovative approach to customized skincare.

Shelter Pack by Hakan Gürsu
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The Shelter Pack is a collapsible shelter structure that can easily be transported to disaster zones to provide a safe haven to victims/refugees.

Brave Jet Syringe by Ilmo Ahn, Jisu Kim & Juyeon Baek & SeonwooPyo
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How do you get kids to be less afraid of injections? Gamify the concept! The Brave Jet is a toy that also can be added to the syringe design to make an otherwise scary procedure much more child-friendly.

Architech Footwear by Alan Guyan
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The Architech’s 3D printed sole does two things brilliantly. One, it increases performance, and two, it gives the footwear an unusual, appealing, and iconic design!

Impressed? Inspired? Well then, go ahead and save your spot for next year’s A’ Design Award! The Registrations are now open! So go enter the competition and nominate your designs for your chance to fame, prestige and international publicity!

2013 A’ Design Award Winners – A Quick Glimpse

I am a big fan of designers that are proactive in putting themselves out there in the spotlight. It takes a good dose of courage to put your work in front of an esteemed jury comprising of more than 40 members! I am talking about the A’ Design Award, a platform that not only recognizes commendable works but also works with the designers to get them their deserved fame!

Here is a look at Ten Innovative Designs from this year’s A’ Design Award winners, that our YD team curated. View all winners here; view all categories here.

Meduse Pipes by Jakub Lanča

An elegant shisha pipe featuring organic lines that are inspired by underwater sea life!

Mabrada by May Khoury

A unique console crafted from painted wood with stone finish, showcasing an old authentic coffee grinder, which goes back to the ottoman period. Tickles the coffee addict in us!

Bucket 40 by Scarabeo Ceramiche Srl

Simple yet chic, we simply love this witty take on the bucket that is fashioned as a washbasin.

Arm Loader by Hoyoung Lee

‘ARM LOADER’ helps the driver’s seat to be stable and not waver, despite the rugged terrain.

Absolute Box Small House Post Disaster by Anna Rita Emili

This self-sufficient emergency structure is made of two structural steel frames enveloping a volume of plasterboard panels coated with high-resistance HDPE panels. Impromptu housing at its best!

Omni Clip Sustainable Shoe Holder by Young Joo Tak

The new shoe packaging “OMNI CLIP” is a revolutionary design that displays shoe products in an innovative style. The redesign is practical and environmentally friendly.

The Remains by Yau Kai So

Fashion pundits will love this inspirational design from the Chinese Relics and ceramics.

Haiku by Tess Simon

Who would have thought that four blades and a rotating machine could be so sexy! Haiku’s three-dimensional curvature offers a vast improvement in performance over flat blades.

Xifix2base Rocking-Chair-One by Juergen Josef Goetzmann

Love this rack-design based rocking chair that requireds minimum of physics and material – only one endless pipe!

Spotlight, Interior Luminaire by Rubén Saldaña Acle

Zen is a new and fully customizable spotlight, and is one of the smallest spotlights in the market.

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