Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle by Chungsheng Chen and Enyang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 Golden A' Design Award in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design Competition Category.
GoldSporting Goods· 2017
Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle
by Chungsheng Chen and Enyang Chen
Client: ACDC Creative
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Sporting Goods Category
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About Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle
Happy Aquarius is a safe and good grip water bottle for all ages. It has a smooth smiling curvature shape designed and eye-catching double sided colors appearance, presenting a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. Made by 100 % recyclable food grade silicone, sustaining temperature range form 220 deg. C to -40 deg. C, no plasticizer leached out and is BPA free. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel, nice in hold and grip. Springiness, elasticity and the hollow structure feature enable the bottle to work-out as hand gripper as well as light-weight dumbbell.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I'm always set my design inspiration on safety, durable and playful design on the everyday living stuff.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Since my whole family are bringing our own water bottle everyday to work or school, I just want to have a safe, unique, durable and playful bottle for my family. Eventually Happy Aquarius, the workout silicone water bottle came to realize.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I wish to promote it to worldwide market, and develop the 2.0 ver for adult.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The smooth smiling curvature design and eye-catching appearance by combination of duo colors, showing a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. Made by 100 % recyclable food grade silicone material, sustaining high low temperature 220deg C ~ -40deg C, safe without any leaching of plasticizer and is BPA free. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel good hold and grip, its flexibility, elasticity and the center hollow structure feature enable the bottle to workout as hand gripper and light-weight dumbbell.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Size: L100 W80 H240 mm
Volume: 400ml
Material: FDA food grade silicone - Tags
- Silicone, Water, Bottle, Workout, Aquarius.
- Production Technology
- Material: Using Silicone as the main material for water bottle is the first of its kind.
Production Tech: Double Sided Color Formation method was menifested.
Surface Touching:Silky Soft Touch Coating, enhance the touch of the surface. - Design Challenge
- Double sided Color Formation for silicone material is always a challenge, and a curvature hollow structure in the middle of the bottle was even a much tougher challenge. In order to achieve the good hold and grip shape, eye-catching color planning, a special molding technique applied. This kept the team try and error for many times that finally comes up with the good solution.
- Research
- Type of Research: Silicone Material in Daily Use
Research Objectives: To achieve the very first water bottle to be made in silicone material with double sided color and hollow structure.
Methodology: Morphological Analysis, Image Scale.
Data Collections: Market Survey, Target User Analysis.
Research Tools: Solidworks, Sketch-Up, 3D Printing. - Inspiration
- When I noticed water bottle made by PC or plastic will leach out plasticizer & BPA, I try to design a bottle safe enough for my children. So I come up with this silicone water bottle with peanut shape which is good hold & grip.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2014 finished in 2015 in Tainan, and was exhibited in 2015 Creative Expo Taiwan as well as 2015 Taipei International Invention Show. Awarded by 2015 GoldenPin Design Award, Taiwan. Design Patent D167870.
- Operation Flow
- Is a safe and good hold water bottle for all ages. Soft touch coating on the surface, providing a silky feel. Besides its water bottle usage, it can be used as handgripper or dumbbell.
- Patents
- Design Patented. Patent No: D167870. Patent holder: Acdesign Associates International CO.,Ltd. 2015. TAIWAN.
- Team Members
- ChungSheng Chen
Tainan University of Technology, Product Design Dept
EnYang Chen
National Kaohsiung First University of Science & Technology
Innovation Design Engineering Dept
Acdesign Associates International Co.,Ltd
Jin Hui Co.,Ltd. - Image Credits
- ChungSheng Chen
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