Art and Award, similarities are the key initials for starting anything, be it the development of a creative solution, or the starting of an establishment. Art is all around us but often ignored while when art of any kind is being awarded it gets recognition and gives rise to the construction of a strong foundation.
Like every year, the Apple Excellence Awards which has been carried forward since 1997 has given rise to the building of innovation and motivation to the thousands of creative people around the globe to participate, innovate, create, and experiment it is the 20th year of award ceremony. In 2017, one of the famous Apple Design Awards took place in Japan commonly known as the Hirosaki Apple Awards in Japan, Hirosaki is located in the Aomori in the northern part of Japan, it is renowned for being the largest producer of apples, and is also known as An Apple City. Apple Design Awards is known for its celebrating the talent, and creativity of developers, designers, and artists who are known for setting standards for ideal app design.
Apple Design Award: Synonym for Excellence in Design and Superiority.
The Apple Design Awards recognize excellence in design, innovation, and technology in apps and games across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
The year 2017 was honored to represent eight countries around the world which included Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Singapore, Slovenia, and the US. The team behind the organization is supported by Designboom which further collaborated with Hirosaki Design Week and Japan Design Week. The design inspection was painted by the leading career makers such as Toyo Ito, architect, William Sawaya, architect + Paolo Maoroni, entrepreneur, Italy, Jeff Shi, Dragonfly, product designer, China and Brigit Lohmann, editor in chief of Designboom. No doubt with 104 shortlisted applications and three winners to select has never been an easy task for any of the judges for the Hirosaki design awards either. Nevertheless, success is like climbing a narrow spiral staircase, it is open to everyone, but the further you climb the stepper the steps, and fewer people can climb up to the top. As a result, the judges had selected 3 winners remarking the prize for each talented winner with a certain amount of money by the Apple Design Awards.
The first winner Hirosaki Apple Design Awards
The 1st Winning Design Award was entitled to Stix. Apple section chopsticks for the grand prix awards of 6,000 euros. The design winner name George Bosnas sailed from Greece was liked the most by the judges as he associated his most famous foods with his design intelligence and created a creative theme of apple-to-apple sushi. He has conceived a set of chopsticks that express the silhouette of an apple in its base.
As we go into the depth of the designer’s concept evolution, he associated it with two major elements. Firstly Hirosaki is the capital of apples for Japan, secondly, sushi is the most known type of food in Japan and is known all over the world. Combining the most famous eating tool from Japan with the icon of an apple, the designer got the Stix, the chopsticks created to hold the icon in your hands. The top view of the chopsticks represented the great red apples from Hirosaki. Indicating the famous apple and it is there in famous food sushi in the design experience that no one can skip without experimenting.
George Bosnas designed a free version for public experience made of wood, when stocked in multiple reminds an apple tree. It is the beauty of the design that how he has defined simplicity is the art of complex design. Just like a tree, a complex nature with so many tangents of nature could be surprisingly the most usable and identical design for the chopsticks.
In addition, he also proposed a gift version made of marble, that included a surprise, a seed from the Hirosaki apple tree to grow your apple tree, and spreading a notion that taste and experience go hand in hand.
The second winner
The second winner of the Hirosaki Apple Design Awards was entitled to Deepak Shah from India. His notable intentions were to design a giant non-edible apple to embark the presence around the globe to be known as one of the significant renowned 5-story buildings made of up concrete, glass, and steel with a height of 34.35 meters. The building is well equipped with design amenities which include washrooms, lifts, and space allotted for further design space. The award prize of 1,000 euros.
The Third winner
The third prize was awarded to the Apple Light by GOMA from Japan. It is a disaster light, indicating a sense of healing aid to the affected people from tsunamis, earthquakes, and missiles.
As Japan has been in a situation of turmoil because of these natural disasters, the designer Goma, has a humble way of healing people by designing a light that shall heal people who are in evacuation shelters, and these lights shall be hung glowing on the apple trees which will remain immobile at the center with the glowing apples even at the time of power outage and thus became a landmark and thus providing a sense of calmness and hope to shine again. The further design has been taken forward by the designer to the electronics manufacturers to produce prototypes and for mass production.
In conclusion, the awards dedicated to each member have left a remarkable impression on each judge and audience, each design is an inspiration to the imagination at its best and gives rise to healthy competition amongst the designers and countries to be connected to one platform with embracing everyone together to showcase the art and creativity.
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