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Happy Bear Silicone meal plate by ChungSheng Chen

Happy Bear Silicone meal plate by ChungSheng Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Bronze A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design Competition Category.


BronzeBaby Products· 2018

Happy Bear Silicone meal plate

by ChungSheng Chen

Client: ACDC Creative

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Baby Products Category

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The Design

About Happy Bear Silicone meal plate

Happy Bear is specially designed for young kids, is safe, unbreakable, avoid annoying noise cause and no leaching of phthalates plasticizer, BPA free, easy to clean, safe to be wash in dishwasher. Sustaining temperature from -40deg.C to 220deg.C, soft touch surface coating. Exclusive duo colors forming technology, highlighting the meal plate a bear facial outline. Besides it can be used as a mold to make chocolate, cake or bread.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Happy Bear Silicone meal plate 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. Happy Bear Silicone meal plate 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. Happy Bear Silicone meal plate 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
This is a food grade silicone meal plate, which is safe and unbreakable, easy to clean that specially designed for young kids. It can sustain temperature from -40deg.C to 220deg.C. Without leaching of phthalates plasticizer under heat and warm condition, BPA free too. Soft touch surface coating that gives a silky feel, exclusive duo colors forming technology, highlighting the bear facial outline that gives the meal plate a lovely animal expression to keep the children always concentrate on their dining bringing the happiness and enjoyment in every meal moment. Besides it can be used as a mold to make chocolate, cake or bread.
Dimensions & Packaging
Size: L270 W220 H30 mm
Material: food grade silicone
Temp Sustain:-40deg.C ~ 220deg.C (-40deg.F ~ 446deg.F)
package: L271 W221 H31 mm/Transparent PET
Tags
Silicone, Meal plate, Safety, Unbreakable, Duo Color
Production Technology
Material: 100% food grade silicone.
Production Tech: Duo color formation method was menifested.
Surface Touching:Silky soft touch coating, enhance the touch of the surface.
Design Challenge
Dou color formation for silicone material is always a challenge, and high-lighting the cute bear facial outline was even a much tougher challenge. In order to achieve the silhouette bear 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 a safety, unbreakable meal plate with brilliant duo colors for kids.
Methodology: Morphological Analysis, Image Scale.
Data Collections: Market Survey, Target User Analysis.
Research Tools: Solidworks, Sketch-Up, 3D Printing.
Inspiration
Most of the time children making noise from beating their cutlery on the plate or breaking their bowl during meal hour. I try to designed a meal plate that will get rid of the annoying noise and prevent the children from breaking the plate, food grade silicone material were used for the entire plate produced. Moreover, the new plate will not leach out any plasticizer & BPA Free as the rival plastic plate does.
Project Duration
The project started in June 2015, finished in October 2015 in Tainan,Taiwan and was exhibited in 2016 Creative Expo Taiwan, 2017 Giftex International Variety Gift Expo Tokyo.
Operation Flow
Made from food grade silicone material, is a safe and unbreakable meal plate for young kids. Soft touch coating on the surface, providing a silky feel. Avoid annoying noise cause and no leach of phthalates plasticizer, BPA free. safe to be wash in dishwasher.
Patents
Copyrights belong to ChungSheng Chen, acdesign associates International Co.,Ltd, 2015.
Team Members
ChungSheng Chen
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Department
Acdesign Associates International Co.,Ltd
Jin Hui co.,Ltd.
Image Credits
ChungSheng Chen
WeiZhe Jiang

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