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Pillzzle Children's Medicine Packaging by Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang Is Granted the A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang honored for baby, kids' and children's products design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Pillzzle Children's Medicine Packaging by Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang, designed for Beijing University of Chemical Technology, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Pillzzle Children's Medicine Packaging
Pillzzle is a medicine packaging design for children. Each board holds four pills, and every pill is linked to one puzzle piece. When the four pieces from the same board are joined, they form a complete animal shape. Parents can tear off a single puzzle-shaped section along the marked lines, separate the top layer, open the aluminum foil and give the pill together with the puzzle piece as a reward. The package is made of plastic, aluminum foil and TPU. The collection system is intended to make children more willing to follow a course of treatment.
About Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang
She is a junior designer at university, specializing in industrial product design and service system design. She is full of love and kindness, and she likes creative ideas and cute things. She is always committed to addressing social issues through cute designs.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. The awarded baby products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/baby-products
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/164817
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164817
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164817
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/359151
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pillzzle Children's Medicine Packaging
- Function
- Children's Medicine Packaging
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Goldenrod, Dark Khaki, Lavender, Cadet Blue and Dark Goldenrod
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Beijing University of Chemical Technology
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164817
Credits
- Team
- Yuanyuan Liang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a medicine package design based on the characteristics of puzzles games. A board have four pills, each pills corresponds to a piece of puzzle, all the puzzles on the same board put together can create a complete cute animal. Parents can make a deal with their kids: for every pill they take, they get a piece of the puzzle. This reward system helps to enhance children's medication experience, make child more willing to cooperate with the treatment and relieve family stress.
- Inspiration
- We observed that most of kids had the experience of not taking medicine well with the treatment course. Moreover, we also found that kids are often attracted to specific color and shapes, fun interactions and progressive reward mechanisms. Based on these phenomenon, we redesigned the package of the medicine, breaking away from the traditional cold and impersonal package, and incorporated puzzle games and cute animal shape that kids enjoy, trying to use an innovative way to reduce kids' fear of medicine, shifting their attitude, making them less resistant to taking medication.
- Research
- Our main research program is the pills board design for kids, the goal is to improve the medical experience in children's treatment course through emotional design, so that kids are less resistant to taking medicine. In design process, we conducted interviews and surveys, and decided to start from the perspective of "collection and reward mechanism". After a large number of desktop and second-hand research, we got the prototype of the current project, and further analyzed many cases for further improvement. We also used hard cardboard with high gram weight for prototype testing, and made the designed jigsaw to verify the feasibility.
- Challenge
- 1. In the design process, the most difficult thing for us is to conceive the small animal shape on the pills board. For personal design style, we hope that when the puzzles from the pills board are put together, they can create a small animal full of geometric sense, but also meet the aesthetic experience of children, without losing cuteness and color. In addition, when the puzzle is scattered on the pills board, we also hope that it can roughly form a harmonious and regular rectangle to achieve a coordinated aesthetic feeling. Based on this, we conducted a lot of research and sketch deduction. We first investigated and summarized many animals and their characteristics.
- Realization and Technology
- It is mainly composed of plastic, aluminum foil and TPU.
- Operation and Interaction
- 1. The child gets sick and needs to take medicine for a period of time according to the treatment course. 2. According to the tear marks on the medicine board, parents tear off a piece of puzzle-shaped medicine board with a single pill. 3. Separate the top puzzle layer of the board, tear the aluminum foil, and take out the pill. 4. Give child the pill and reward him with a puzzle to collect. 5. Kid put all the puzzles from the same pill board together to get a cute animal puzzle. (The specific reward agreement can be flexible by parents)
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2024 in Zhengzhou and finished in September 2024 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- Product dimensions: 104.8mm x 58.5mm x 9.3mm Package dimensions: 120.8mm x 368.5mm x 2mm
- Keywords
- Kids, Children, Medicine, Blister Pack, Packaging, Animals, Puzzles
