Press Release
Xueyong Liang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Dino Bowl in Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Xueyong Liang for pet care, toys, supplies and products for animals design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Dino Bowl by Xueyong Liang, designed for Suzao Union (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Dino Bowl
Dino is a feeding bowl for cats. The bowl is made from a single piece of high temperature fired ceramic and is supplied with a stir stick. The form is inspired by the neck of a dinosaur, and the stir stick acts as the spine, giving the product a memorable appearance. The tilted rim allows cats to eat in a more comfortable posture. The stir stick helps mix canned food and always returns to the correct orientation, at whatever angle the stick is inserted into the hole at the back. Storing the stick in the bowl keeps the two parts together.
About Xueyong Liang
He is a design educator as well as a designer standing at the forefront of design practice, specializing in innovative design research in many fields, including product design, visual communication, and so forth. He leads his team to engage in design and commercial practice, focusing on brand packaging, children's amusement products, and pet products. What he has come to realize the most is that the design logic for children's products and pet products is almost the same.
Award Record
Xueyong Liang is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2024 - 2025 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design Award
The A' Pet Care Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good pet supplies, toys and product designs by designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to pet care designers, animal toy designers, pet supply manufacturers and pet care brands from all countries. Typical entries include pet food, pet apparel, pet beds, feeding bowls, litter boxes and pet carriers. The awarded pet supply designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/pet-care
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/162312
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162312
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162312
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/356000
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The Work
- Project
- Dino Bowl
- Function
- Bowl
- Category
- Pet Care, Toys, Supplies and Products for Animals Design
- Discipline
- Product Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Goldenrod, Peru, Sienna, Steel Blue and Goldenrod
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Suzao Union (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xueyong Liang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162312
Credits
- Team
- Wang Sijia, Yu Fei and Yu Sushu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Decopark Dino Bowl consists of a one-piece, high-temperature fired ceramic bowl and a stir stick. The holistic design is inspired by dinosaur neck shape, like the stir stick is designed as the dinosaur's spine, making the visual image more memorable. The tilt angle of the bowl allows cats to eat more comfortably. The attached stir stick is designed to assist with mixing and it will always return to the correct orientation no matter which angle it is inserted at.
- Inspiration
- Our design begins with thinking about the relationship between the bowl and cats, and how owners use it. We have discussed specifically on aspects such as function, visual expression and materials. The Dino Bowl is primarily made of ceramics. Its basic shape is cylindrical, bent in the middle to create the slanted surface of the feeding bowl, giving it the appearance of a dinosaur. The stir stick on the back serves as the dinosaur's spine, integrating functionality and aesthetics of the product.
- Research
- Research shows that most users thought pet ceramic bowl product on the market are homogeneous, failing to consider the actual needs of users and cats. Therefore, our design focus on practicality and ease of use. We noticed that when feeding canned cat food, a stir stick is needed to mix it, yet there are few bowl products equipped with a stir stick. Additionally, most users indicated that they are easily attracted to product shapes. Hence, we incorporated interesting ideas into the design.
- Challenge
- The biggest creative challenge was integrating the innovation of product shape and function. We found that users need both a bowl and a stir stick when feeding their cats, but a single stir stick would be easily lost. Therefore, we were facing the challenge of combining them into one unit for convenient storage. Simultaneously, we were also wondering how to make the overall appearance interesting to attract users and provide better user experience.
- Realization and Technology
- Aiming to make a cute and fun bowl, the lines are well designed to ensure the holistic shape is suitable for the ceramic firing process and make the stir stick and the bowl maintain harmony and unity in their forms. To reduce the likelihood of deformation of the bowl’s slanted rim during firing, we made the rim structure double layer. Simultaneously, we keep adjusting the shape of the stir stick and its insertion hole at the back of the bowl to ensure a better fit between them and the bowl.
- Operation and Interaction
- When users feed their cats, the stir stick at the back of the bowl helps to mix the cat's food, particularly canned food. Afterward, the stir stick can be easily wiped clean and placed back into the insertion hole at the rear of the bowl for convenient storage. It is also worth noting that the slanted rim design of the cat bowl ensures a more comfortable eating posture for cats.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2023 in Hangzhou, and was exhibited in The ONE Pet Show in April 2024.
- Specifications
- Overall dimensions: Length 168mm x Width 140mm x Height 164mm Bowl dimensions: Diameter 140mm x Height 164mm (Capacity 115ml) Weight: 1kg Material: Ceramic / PP
- Keywords
- visual expression, dinosaur shape, back spine mixing stick, ceramic bowl
