Nio X Csm Ceramic by Nio Life is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2022
Nio X Csm Ceramic
by Nio Life
Client: NIO Life
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Nio X Csm Ceramic
Nio X Csm is a home fragrance range made of porcelain. The collection includes essential oil holders, incense burners and candle holders. Each piece uses the same pebble form, slightly adjusted for each use, so the range is versatile and simple to produce. Porcelain was chosen because the material absorbs essential oils and holds the scent for a longer time. Use is simple, as fragrance items are placed on the pebble. The pebbles can also serve as decoration on tables and bookshelves or be carried during travel.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Nio X Csm Ceramic is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Nio X Csm Ceramic is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Nio X Csm Ceramic is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is a Home Fragrance range including essential oil holders, incense burners and candle holders. The project combines NIO’s Blue Sky Coming vision with modern Scandinavian simplicity and usability, aiming to create a simple product which can be placed anywhere in the home. Each product uses the same beautiful pebble form and slightly adjusted, makes this a versatile design, simple to produce and with room to expand. Simple yet nature shape highlights the details of pebble form and also fragrance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Multi dimensions
- Production Technology
- Porcelain
- Design Challenge
- The challenge in the design process was how to make the fragrance last longer. Through researching materials and carrying out tests, the designer chose to concentrate on using Porcelain to absorb the essential oils, in order to keep the fragrance for a longer period of time. These pebbles can also be portable and used as car fragrance.
- Research
- As a group we spent time researching NIO’s values and what might fit in with their company brand and vision. My role throughout the group work was to research climate change, sustainable materials and ethical practice within ceramics. This research later influenced my choice of using natural air purifying materials, such as Bee’s Wax Candles and White Sage incense - both proven to remove toxins from air in the home.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the Blue Sky Coming vision, the product aims to create a picture: Being on the beach, where the air is freshest and you can almost taste the sea. Spending time outdoors, picking up pebbles and feeling the physically comforting stones. The products enable users to sense sea at home and convey the concept that people all breath freely and run happily under the blue sky.
- Project Duration
- Started in August 2018, first sale in February 2020.
- Operation Flow
- All users need to do is very simple. They should just place fragrance items on the products. The products add joy and relaxation for users both at home and during travel. Further, it can be placed as decoration on tables or bookshelves.
- Team Members
- NIO Life
Miranda Swanson
Paprika Williams
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