Float Чаша за пиене by Fang Shih and Tian-Yu Wu

Float Чаша за пиене by Fang Shih and Tian-Yu Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Желязна награда A' Design Award in Дизайн на съдове за печене, сервиране, пиене и готвене Competition Category.

ЖелязоКухненски принадлежности· 2020

Float Чаша за пиене

by Fang Shih and Tian-Yu Wu

Client: Float

Желязна награда A' Design Award Winner in Кухненски принадлежности Category

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The Design

About Float Чаша за пиене

Float е чаша за многократна употреба, предназначена за пиене на血珍珠 чай без сламка. Вътрешна чаша задържа топчетата над чая, така че топчетата и чаят достигат устата заедно, когато чашата се повдигне. Чаят се охлажда от леда над него преди да бъде изпит, което избягва по-топлите последни глътки, характерни за чашите със сламка. Float е изработена чрез шприцово формоване на пластмаса и силикон и има размери 106 на 106 на 236 милиметра. Целта на дизайна е да намали употребата на еднократни чаши и сламки.

The Recognition

About the Желязна награда A' Design Award

Float Чаша за пиене е носител на Желязната награда A' Design Award — престижно признание, присъждано на добри дизайни, които отговарят на професионалните и индустриалните изисквания, очаквани от добре проектирани творения. Желязните победители демонстрират голямо умение, висока специализация, експертно разбиране и творчески капацитет на своите създатели. Очаква се Float Чаша за пиене да бъде високо ценено, възхищавано и обичано творение, което е практично и иновативно. Този дизайн, спечелил Желязната награда A' Design Award, интегрира най-добрите отраслови практики и притежава компетентни технически характеристики, свързани с ноу-хау и талант. Float Чаша за пиене се радва на уважение заради щателността си и предлага подобрения в качеството на живот, които помагат светът да стане по-добро място.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: FLOAT is a reusable cup that doesn’t need a straw but still can drink bubble tea. The inner cup put the bubbles above the drink, so the tea and bubbles would arrive at our mouth together while we raise our head to drink. Also, in this way, the tea will be cooled by ice before drinking, which solves the problem that the straw cups always let people drink the bottom part of the drink which isn’t cooled by ice piece above the drink.
Dimensions & Packaging: 106mm x 106mm x 236mm
Tags: reusable, cup, bubble tea, sustainable design
Production Technology: plastic injection molding, silicone injection molding
Design Challenge: The most difficult part in the process is the adjustments of using fluency. Based on our core concept ”the motivation of continuous using comes from a good user experience", we improved and adjusted hundreds of times in details such as the caliber of the rim and the slope of the inner cup, in order to make user has the best drinking experience.
Research: “Bubble tea” is an unique street drink culture that is risen in Taiwan since the 1980s. According to media statistics, more than 1.5 billion cups of bubble tea drinks are sold every year in Taiwan, which means there are more than 1.5 billion disposable containers are used every year as well.
Although there are many reusable cups being launched every year in Taiwan, we found that people tend to lower the time of using after buying them. So we did survey, interviews and use mind-mapping to find the reason: the reusable straws are not only difficult to clean, but also not easy to carry around.
That’s why we came up with Float to be the solution to these problems.
Inspiration: Bubble tea is an unique street drink culture in Taiwan; however, a handful freshness each day brings a billion of disposable plastic cups and plastic straw waste every year. We want to create a experience that is better than the disposable straw cup, and let people be more willing to use reusable cup to purchase bubble tea. reduce the numbers of disposable plastic cups and straws.
Project Duration: Started from Nov. 2018 to Dec. 2019
Operation Flow: FLOAT is a reusable cup that doesn’t need a straw but still can drink bubble tea. The inner cup put the bubbles above the drink, so the tea and bubbles would arrive at our mouth together while we raise our head to drink. Since people make a billion of disposable plastic cups and plastic straw waste while drinking bubble tea, we want to create a experience that is better than the disposable straw cup, and let people be more willing to use reusable cup to purchase bubble tea, and reduce the numbers of disposable plastic cups and straws.
Patents: Patented.
Patent No. M584644
Patent Holder. Wu, Tianyu ; SHIH FANG
Year. 2019
Team Members: Fang Shih
Tian-yu Wu
Image Credits: All Images: Photographer Oni Lai