X alarm Cigarette Filter by Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 Silver A' Design Award in Social Design Competition Category.
SilverSocial· 2017
X alarm Cigarette Filter
by Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad
Client: Creator studio
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Social Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #44930The Design
About X alarm Cigarette Filter
X alarm, is an alarm for smokers to make them realize what they are doing to themselves while they are doing it.This design is a new generation of cigarette filters .This design can be a good replacement for expensive advertisements against smoking and it has more influence on smokers minds than any other negative advertising.It has a very simple structure, the filters are stamped with an invisible ink that covers the negative area of the sketch and with each puff the sketch will appear clearer so with each puff you will see your heart is getting darker and you know what is happening to you.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
X alarm Cigarette Filter 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. X alarm Cigarette Filter 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. X alarm Cigarette Filter is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The idea was to aware smokers about what they are doing to themselves. We wanted to show them what they are doing while they are doing it.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The focus was to create a way for warning smokers that they could not get used to it because as we all know there are some warnings on cigarette pockets but it may get the smokers' attention for once and after a while they learn to ignore it . What we really focused on was finding a way that the smokers could not ignore or get used to.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We are definitely planing to offer our design to interested companies.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- X alarm looks like any other regular filter at first, but when you start smoking, each puff makes a sketch visible on the top part of filter, it is designed in a way that the negative area of the sketch will be covered with a colorless ink (sketches such as a heart, a lung, male and female signs and so many other things that smoking affects). It may seem so simple but what we aimed is the minds of smokers .
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Our design is meant to be the exact size of the surface of any cigarette filter brands .
- Tags
- warning, cigarette filter, life, health, Cancer, Lungs, environment, smoke, tobacco, X alarm
- Production Technology
- This design can be done just by adding a step to the production line of the company.Cigarettes will be stamped with a colorless ink. This ink will cover the negative area of sketch so we actually cover the air holes and smoke won't pass through them, smoke will be led into sketch area. That will make the sketch clearer with each puff. The machine that does the stamping has several heads, each head has a different sketch.So smokers will see a different sketch each time they light up a cigarette.
- Design Challenge
- The difficult part of creating this design was to think of the best way to remind smokers what they are doing to themselves . Our intention was to tell our massage in a way that the smokers would not be able to condone the fact we were trying to tell .So we decided to work on cigarette filters , the next step was to show the smokers what they were doing with their body with each puff . With this idea we will be able to remind smokers what they are doing while they are doing it.
- Research
- We did a major research on cigarettes and smoking habits .Cigarette and tobacco are known as the second cause of death in the world. It takes 6 million lives a year which means every 6 seconds a person dies because of smoking.15000000000 cigarettes are being smoked daily in the world. As we all know smoking is one of the original causes for cancer. This design has a deep mental effect on smokers, it is not expensive, it is easy to perform and it can be mass produced.
- Inspiration
- There are about 1,300,000,000 smokers in the world. Cigarette is the basis factor of non-contagious illnesses such as heart diseases, serious pulmonary infections and cancers, that these cause about 60 percent of deaths in the world. Cigarette and tobacco are known as the second cause of death! Hundreds of people die every year because of secondary smoke! We wanted to remind smokers the danger of each cigarette and its effect on their lives and other people's lives.
- Project Duration
- This idea was contributed in World Design Impact Prize 2015.2016 in Aug 12, 2015 from Iran
- Operation Flow
- These sketches will be stamped randomly and put in cigarette pockets so smokers will see a different sketch each time they light up a cigarette. This random distribution lets our massage be a new one all the time so smokers can't get used to it. We are certain that this will be very effective because these massages will be seen during the time a person smokes a cigarette and that is why it will make him think of what he is doing to his body!
- Team Members
- LADAN ZADFAR
MOHAMAD FARSHAD - Image Credits
- Photographer Mohammad Farshad
illustration LADAN ZADFAR
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