Glacier Food Washing Machine by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Competition Category.
BronzeKitchenware· 2021
Glacier Food Washing Machine
Client: China Innovation Academy of Intelligent Equipment ( Ningbo ) Co., Ltd
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Kitchenware Category
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About Glacier Food Washing Machine
Glacier is a food washing machine for home kitchens. Glacier removes residual pesticides, heavy metals, fertilizers and bacteria with a hydroxyl water ion generator. The body is produced by injection molding in ABS and PC, and a large transparent area gives the machine a layered appearance. Abstract polygons and wide indicator lights recall a natural glacier and suggest purity and stability. A large control panel on the front holds buttons for meat, fruit and vegetables, so food is placed inside and one touch starts the cleaning.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Glacier Food Washing Machine is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Glacier Food Washing Machine is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Glacier Food Washing Machine splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Glacier is a kitchen food cleaner that effectively removes pesticide residuals, heavy metal, fertilizer and bacteria. The design purpose of Glacier is to express extraordinary cleanliness and high quality life attitude. The machine utilizes abstract polygons and large scale instruction lights to build a picture of natural glacier that embodies purity and steadiness. Usage of large area of transparent PC material brings rich layering and overall attractiveness to the machine body.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Black or white body. Dimension: 305mm x 410mm x 285mm
- Tags
- food, cleaner, washer, iceberg, glacier
- Production Technology
- Glacier applies ABS and PC injection modeling. It contains hydroxyl water ion generator that degrade harmful substances in food.
- Design Challenge
- Glacier needs to utilize minimalist shapes to convey a neat metaphor that represent its core function of cleaning, and thus exhibit an attitude for high quality life.
- Research
- The technology of degrading harmful substance on food has not been widely known or accepted by major population. Instead of educating potential users with academic terms and specification, Glacier relies more upon dedicated overall design to boost its first image and captivation.
- Inspiration
- From our observation, target users who care about food cleanliness are also prone to life quality pursuance. Thus we build the machine's main body with abstract iceberg polygons to metaphorize the cold, clean and clear glacier that represent extreme purity. Together with the rich layer design, We enable Glacier to touch user's subconsciousness for stainlessness and to visually facilitate user's imagination for quality life.
- Project Duration
- The project started in August 2020 in Beijing and finished in December 2020 in Shenzhen, China
- Operation Flow
- A large control panel is installed on front side of Glacier with bottoms indicating "meat", "fruits", "vegetables" and etc. User need only put food into the machine and touch the botton, then operate easily with instructions.
- Team Members
- Creative Director: Xu Chen
Art Director: TianShu Liu
Consultant: Rong Zhang
Technical Head: ShuLong Li
Design Technology: Qian Hao
Designer: FangBo Wu
Designer: BeiBei Liu
Engineer: MingJie Zhang
Project Manager: Yan Liu
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