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Silver A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Goes to Vitality Family Garden Kitchen Waste Disposal Box by Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu for sustainable products, projects and green design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design category for Vitality Family Garden Kitchen Waste Disposal Box by Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu, designed for Dopamine. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Vitality Family Garden Kitchen Waste Disposal Box
Vitality Family Garden is a small indoor compost bin designed to process household kitchen waste. Earthworms placed inside the box eat food residues and turn them into natural fertiliser. The fertiliser is then used to grow vegetables in small planting pots. An LED planting lamp supports plant growth indoors, and its lighting modes are selected with buttons. The product is not automated, so composting and planting are completed by the user. Vitality Family Garden reduces kitchen odour and returns food waste to useful life.
About Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu
ChaozhiLin from China is now studying at the Musashino Art University in Japan. He has won many international design awards such as IF, IDA, Spark and China Red Star. His design works have been published in the international online magazines Yanko Design and Lemanoosh for many times.He is committed to the Environment-Centered Design and constantly thinks about how to make products achieve sustainable development.He wants to make sustainable development more possible through design.At the same time, his high empathy and aesthetic appreciation also enable his products to touch the hearts and feelings of users.
Award Record
Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Award
The A' Sustainable Product Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sustainable products by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sustainable product designers, green product manufacturers, eco-friendly product brands and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include sustainable projects, environment friendly designs, recycled, upcycled and bio-degradable products. The awarded sustainable product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/sustainable-product
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/108186
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/108186
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!108186
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/281449
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://u.nu/acokk
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Vitality Family Garden Kitchen Waste Disposal Box
- Function
- Kitchen Waste Disposal Box
- Category
- Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sustainability
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Silver, Lavender and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Dopamine
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #108186
Credits
- Team
- Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou, Yong Liu, Can Wang, Haitao Shi and Xudong Yang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Vitality is a small indoor compost bin, which solves the daily kitchen waste generated by the family, and use the natural fertilizer converted from the kitchen waste to grow vegetables.The design concept is to use earthworms, a common harmless creature, to eat food waste and produce compost for planting. Earthworms like to eat food waste, which not only eliminates the unpleasant smell of food waste at home, but the unique digestive system can also convert food waste into the nutritional value of fertilizer, which is used to provide better plants.
- Inspiration
- Food waste accounts for 46.2% of combustible waste, but each ton produces 0.3 tons of carcinogenic gas and a large amount of carbon dioxide. Traditional burial and incineration will not only pollute the land and air, but also waste food resources that should have been rationally used. As one of the major categories of domestic waste, reasonable disposal of kitchen waste is an important issue in today's waste disposal.
- Research
- Literature review, observational studies and focus groups made to support the design process. Literature review data is documented in research documents submitted.
- Challenge
- The earthworm are a difficult group to control. They will escape the soil when the external environment is unstable. In the end, we got a lot of guidance information from insect biologists and agricultural planting experts.
- Realization and Technology
- The indoor planting technology used in the product is quite mature, and the LED lighting supplement technology used is also suitable for mass production.
- Operation and Interaction
- Control the lighting mode through the buttons. The product is not automated, and is designed to allow consumers to complete composting and planting activities independently. Earthworms and planting lights can help people better nurture and take care of their plants.
- Project Duration and Location
- Through the form of composting, the kitchen waste becomes an essential nutrient for plant growth, so that the discarded kitchen waste can be turned into delicious food again.The project was launched in Japan and China in December 2019. This is a 6-month experimental project that will end in June 2020.
- Specifications
- box size: length 39 cm, width 15 cm, height 11 cm, planting lamp size: length 25 inside, height 13 cm, width 2.2 cm, planting pot size: length 7 cm, width 7 cm, height 5 cm
- Keywords
- Compost Bin, Grow Box, Contemporary, Young
