Zirconia Sharpener
Zirconia Sharpener Pencil Sharpener by Bryan Wong and Chengtao Yi is a winner of the 2017 Silver A' Design Award in Art and Stationery Supplies Design.
Zirconia Sharpener is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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In everyone’s childhood, one of the first objects they encounter is a pencil and sharpener. Standing over the trash bin and sharpening your tool, and make your marks on paper. This interaction can be related to everyone across different cultures and background. The pencil sharpener is a work of beauty — it’s a piece that expresses simplicity and the magic of analog. A pencil sharpener is honest, and as you sharpen your pencil, you see the graphite and wood shavings fly out each turn.By utilizing zirconia’s material property, the blade doesn’t need to be changed and sharpens smoothly.
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Zirconia Sharpener by Bryan Wong and Chengtao Yi
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Pencil Sharpener
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Art and Stationery Supplies Design Award Winner in 2017.
Silver Winner
Zirconia Sharpener Pencil Sharpener
Zirconia Sharpener is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Zirconia Sharpener is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Zirconia Sharpener is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
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Bryan Wong and Chengtao Yi
Bryan Wong is a Brooklyn-based industrial designer who believes that design should be created with a twist of respect and dash of playfulness. Bryan observes the world around him constantly and is always inspired by them. Bryan's vision is to design simple products that can trigger a deeper connection between users and materials — making the ordinary extraordinary. Bryan observes the world around him constantly and is always inspired by them. This passion and curiosity lead Bryan to great discoveries, allowing him to create innovative, beautiful and compelling products that solve real needs. Bryan likes to explore how different materials and manufacturing method can accentuate designs of an object. This micro consideration shows the level of detail are taken into account of people's lifestyles, and how it enables the user to do better, complex work and eliminates frustration. A 2015 graduate of Pratt Institute's acclaimed ID program, Bryan has developed products on his own and in collaboration with others. Bryan grew up in Hong Kong, Canada and the USA. As a Third Culture Individual, he is heavily influenced by many cultures. This global experience gives him unique insight and experience upon which to draw from in his design work.
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Bryan Wong and Chengtao Yi
Bryan Wong and Chengtao Yi are both industrial designers graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. Despite their full-time design jobs, they occasionally collaborate together and design products that interest themselves. Their vision is to design simple products that can trigger a deeper connection between users and materials — making the ordinary extraordinary. They observe the world around them constantly and are always inspired by them. This passion and curiosity lead them to great discoveries, allowing them to create innovative, beautiful and compelling products that solve real needs. Chengtao likes to explore how objects affordance can profoundly influence how we feel, think and behave, whereas Bryan likes to explore how different materials and manufacturing method can accentuate designs of an object. This micro consideration shows the level of detail are taken into account of people's lifestyles, and how it enables the user to do better, complex work and eliminates frustration. Now Bryan is based in Brooklyn and Chengtao is carrying out his practice in Chengdu, China. This international bond and global experience also provide them with unique insights, design philosophies, as well as design methodologies upon which to draw from in their design work.
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