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Fold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي by Miao Jingyi and Zou Hu

Fold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي by Miao Jingyi and Zou Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 جائزة A' Design Award الفضية in تصميم التغليف Competition Category.


فضةالتغليف· 2024

Fold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي

by Miao Jingyi and Zou Hu

Client: Mz Design

جائزة A' Design Award الفضية Winner in التغليف Category

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The Design

About Fold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي

أظهرت الاختبارات أن تركيز المكونات الفعالة في سائل كيس الشاي المعلق العادي يبلغ 40 بالمائة فقط من التركيز عند تحضير الدواء مباشرة. يعود ذلك إلى أن أكياس الشاي العادية تغلف الدواء في الداخل، مما يجعل من الصعب تدفق الماء بسلاسة من الداخل إلى الخارج. يهدف هذا التصميم إلى زيادة تركيز الدواء الفعال وتقليل هدر الدواء. كما نأمل في استخدام تقنية طي الورق لتوفير مساحة أكبر في المنتج لتطبيق مفاهيم التصميم المستدام. عند صب الماء فيه، ينفتح طبقة تلو الأخرى من شكل مطوي مسطح، مشكلاً هيكلاً برميلياً.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award الفضية

Fold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الفضية، وهي تقدير رفيع المكانة بصورة استثنائية يُمنح للتصاميم الرفيعة المستوى والجميلة والمبهرة. والفائزون بالفضية هم أعمال لامعة بشدة وشديدة الإبداع تجسّد الخبرة والموهبة وحدة الذكاء المتميزة لدى مصمميها. ويُتوقع أن يكون Fold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي عملًا رائعًا يُعرض كنموذج، شديد الاحترافية وعميق الابتكار. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الفضية اختراع جدير بالذكر ومحل إعجاب، يعود بالنفع ويوسّع حدود الفن والعلم والتصميم والتكنولوجيا. وFold كيس شاي الطب الصيني التقليدي إبداع يغبطه الكثيرون، يثير الرغبات ويبعث مشاعر إيجابية ويشعل الدهشة والإعجاب.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
This traditional Chinese medicine teabag can improve the extraction efficiency of water on ingredient when brewing and improve the "effective ingredients concentration" in medicine liquid.
This teabag adopts the process of "origami". When water is poured into it, it will unfold layer by layer from a flat folded shape, forming a barrel structure. This design not only ensures extraction efficiency, but also reduces the package volume by 60%, reducing carbon emissions during transportation.
Dimensions & Packaging
During the design process, we created models of different sizes and collected user feedback and data. After ergonomic testing, the product was selected in the following dimensions: 95 mm x 95 mm x 16 mm. The outer packaging was selected in the following sizes: 100 mm x 100 mm x 100 mm.
The outer packaging is made of 100% biodegradable and renewable paper, which is lightweight and sustainable. It is printed with environmentally friendly ink to reduce pressure on the environment.
Tags
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Teabag, Sustainable Design, Fold Structure, Reduce Waste
Production Technology
This design uses 100% biodegradable and renewable paper as the raw material to produce environmentally friendly food grade filter paper. Folds are formed through the origami pressing process, resulting in a flat folding structure. The outer packaging also uses biodegradable and renewable paper, which is lightweight and environmentally friendly.
This folding structure design reduces transportation space by 60%, reducing production costs and carbon emissions during transportation.
Design Challenge
The most difficult part of this design is the early testing stage, where testing the efficacy of various teabags on the market requires the use of expensive testing instruments and a long cycle.
The shape design of this product is also a challenge. It not only needs to be beautiful, but also needs to achieve the function of maximizing the "concentration of active ingredient".
Research
Through searching academic papers and conducting interviews with users, we have summarized a teabag usage process that is in line with daily habits.
Physical tests have shown that the "effective drug concentration" of ordinary hanging teabag liquid is only 40% of that when directly brewing medicine. This design improves the efficiency of brewing and reduces transportation space by 60%, reducing production costs and carbon emissions during transportation.
Inspiration
Tests have shown that the "effective ingredients concentration" of ordinary hanging teabag liquid is only 40% of that when directly brewing medicine. This is because ordinary teabags wrap medicine inside, making it difficult for water to flow smoothly from the inside out.
This design aims to increase the “effective drug concentration” and reduce medicine waste. We also hope to use origami technique to save more volume in the product to implement sustainable design concepts.
Project Duration
The project started in July 2022 and finished in April 2023 in Guangzhou, China.
Operation Flow
Open the packaging, take out the medicine bag and remove the lid. Place the medicine bag above the cup and pour in hot water for brewing. During the brewing process, the medicine package will unfold layer by layer from a flat folded shape, forming a barrel like structure. After 2-5 minutes, it is ready to drink.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Jingyi Miao, 2023.
Team Members
Miao Jingyi
Zou Hu
Duan Hongli
Xu Mengzhen
Chen Deteng
Zhao Yizhu
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Miao Jingyi, Fold, 2023.
Image #2: Photographer Miao Jingyi, Fold, 2023.
Image #3: Photographer Miao Jingyi, Fold, 2023.
Image #4: Photographer Miao Jingyi, Fold, 2023.
Image #5: Photographer Miao Jingyi, Fold, 2023.

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