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Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque Wins 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 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque of Segnoinverso, designed for Segno Inverso, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category. The result belongs to 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 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 Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine
Model Z is a fully automatic coffee machine that shows an unconventional design that breaks away from traditional aesthetics. While the front view is focused on the easy of use with a big touch display where hundreds recipes of coffee can be selected and customized, the self adjusting coffee spout moves accordingly to the cup and selected recipe. Ambient lights and a big C shaped silver frame make the product recognizable and with a strong identity design. Hot water, steam and milk frothed pipes make the Model Z a professional complete coffee machine.
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
With this recognition, Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque of Segnoinverso is a winner of 9 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2013 - 2014 and the 2024 - 2025 editions 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. It 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. Typical entries include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. The awarded home appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/home-appliance
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/168948
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/168948
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!168948
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/127777
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine
- Function
- Full Automatic Coffee Machine
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Segno Inverso
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
- Country
- Italy
- Brand
- Segnoinverso
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #168948
Credits
- Team
- Nicola Zanetti, Federico Gonzalez Bosque
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This cutting-edge fully automatic coffee machine redefines modern coffee brewing with a bold, unconventional design that breaks away from traditional aesthetics. Its sleek, angular structure, combined with premium metallic finishes and dynamic LED accents, gives it a futuristic, high-tech appeal, making it a statement piece in any environment. Its unconventional, modern mesthetics, makes it unique and recognizable, setting a new standard in coffee machine appearence.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration behind this groundbreaking coffee machine was a bold vision: to break away from the conventional "boxy" designs that dominate the market and create something truly unconventional, dynamic, and futuristic. Traditional coffee machines often follow a rigid, rectangular form, prioritizing function over visual impact. We challenged this norm by thinking outside the box. Our goal was to craft a machine that is both a high-performance appliance but also an innovative statement piece.
- Research
- The machine was developed basing on an engineering mock up that was analyzed adn modified basing on the user experience research results. The team of designers and engineers worked together to adapt the outlook design and the user experience to the technichal needs and viceversa. The test revealed some issues that drove us to a review of the design and some details for the best performance and usability.
- Challenge
- Matching the view of a innovative outlook with the mechanical needs and the cost budget was a real challenge and finding solutions that balance all the aspects involved was really hard.
- Realization and Technology
- Injection molding for ABS and other plastic parts. Some parts are metal injected parts to give structure to the body and communicate strongness outlook. Touch display full color led. Some led decoration over the body with light guide cover to spread the light omogenously.
- Operation and Interaction
- easy to use with a big colorfull and complete touch screen, the user need to place his cup and press the kind of coffee he likes to have. Operator will provide to refill the beans and coffee powder in the hoppers. Water is provided by direct connection to water service and used coffee cakes are collected in a huge container inside the machine that will be cleaned up by operator. This machine is studied for convenient stores and hotels where an operator can prepare the coffee for you, where steam or hot water are needed. The coffee spout is self adapting to the high of the cup you will use.
- Project Duration and Location
- the project was developed by a team of designers and engineers between Italy and China and took around 1 year between July 2023 and June 2024 and was discosed to public during the Shanghai Hotelex exhibition in 2024
- Specifications
- 676 x 370 x 786 h mm
- Keywords
- coffee, machine, automatic, cappuccino, modern, outstanding, full automatic, horeca, steam, touch display, full automatic, coffee machine
