Press Release
Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design
Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque of Segnoinverso honored for home appliances design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category for Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque of Segnoinverso. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored 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.
About Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker
The design is a specialty coffee machine for drip coffee. It has an automated movement of the parts to collect ground coffee and move, with a rotation, to the water outlet position. One button and it's done! The user can modify or pre-set the details of grinding, temperature, and volume of water. The state-of-the-art machine is designed to brew the favorite blends to perfection, with precise temperature control and customizable settings.
About Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
Segno Inverso is an Italian research, strategy, innovation, and design firm with a 10-year experience professionals. The team consists of accomplished international freelance strategists, designers, researchers, engineers and business professionals who work collaboratively, synergistically and effectively. The team can achieve highly specialized results thanks to abilities of single freelance that we hire on specific brief. We think it is the teamwork with a good supervision that permits to achieve highest results. Moreover they think a flexible organization can be succesfull between the need of a good design and the budget limits.
About Segnoinverso
Segno Inverso is an Italian research, strategy, innovation, and design firm with a 10-year experience international professionals.
Award Record
Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque of Segnoinverso is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2013 - 2014 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Home Appliances Design Award
The A' Home Appliance Design Award is an international competition recognizing good home appliance designs by best appliance designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to home appliance designers, industrial designers, product engineers and appliance brands from all countries. Entries typically include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. Awarded home appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/home-appliance
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/147466
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147466
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147466
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/127777
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker
- Function
- Speciality Coffee Maker
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gainsboro, White and Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
- Country
- Italy
- Brand
- Segnoinverso
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147466
Credits
- Team
- Nicola Zanetti, Federico Gonzales Bosque
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Specialty coffee machine for drip coffee has an automated movement of the parts to collect grinded coffee from the upper container and move, with a rotation, to the water outlet position, in the front. One button and it's done! The user can modify or pre-set with a knob the details of grinding, temperature, and volume of water. Our state-of-the-art machine is designed to brew your favorite blends to perfection, with precise temperature control and customizable settings.
- Inspiration
- Futuristic architecture was the inspiration starting point as this is a coffee station more than a coffee machine, as well as, Robots and A.I. on the other side, due to the automation of movements and the limited need for interaction from the user.
- Research
- Deep expert in the Eruopean coffee products and business, we started a journey in the drip coffee that is not that common in our own countries. This was the new challenge we accepted : Make a eycatching, modern and easy to use drip coffee machine. The team was of the two old friends and designers that have designed lots of coffee machines.
- Challenge
- Expert in espresso, fully automatic and capsule machines, we started to drink a lot of drip coffee, also to stay awake and design. We tried to put some tech innovation ( automated movement, touch buttons and magnetic knob) avoiding a colorfull display, cause we don't like everything in our kitchen to become a display.
- Realization and Technology
- Different materials are involved due to the complex nature of the structure. ABS for plastic parts, Glass for the flat base with touch interface and the kettle, Metal for the funnel and mechanical parts that allow the automatic movement of the funnel. There is a coffee beans grinder with conical burr in order to have a perfect grinding, touch buttons to make the outlook clean and simple and a led display to feedback the user about the status and changes.
- Operation and Interaction
- Super easy operated by the user pressing one button after selecting by the knob, the grams of coffee and the temperature and volume of water. Refilling of water and beans is easy by the top lid of the two containers.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was developed in Italy with the constant update by internet with the client and the manufacturer. It took around six months totally to finish the project while the working prototype phase took around two months. After almost nine months the project reached the production phase.
- Specifications
- Dimension are 310 x 267 x 340h - Power 60hz 220v -Heating up to 99°C - Grinding selection from 0.75 to 0.1 mm - Water tank 1L
- Keywords
- coffee, machine, beans, espresso, drip, kettle, automated
