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Petals Multifunctiona drug packaging by Jiankun Sun & Yiqin Zhou Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Jiankun Sun & Yiqin Zhou recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2017 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Petals Multifunctiona drug packaging by Jiankun Sun & Yiqin Zhou, designed for Wuhan University of Technology. The award was conferred within the 2016 - 2017 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.
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.
More About Petals Multifunctiona drug packaging
Petals is a multifunctional medication packaging designed for older users. The form is based on a flower with seven petals, and each petal holds the dose for one day. Every petal carries a printed number to aid identification. A cutting line on the central disc allows a single pill to be removed. Breaking a petal tears the foil and destroys part of the number, which indicates that another dose is still due that day. The transparent centre is a convex plastic sheet filled with water, so the centre works as a magnifying glass for reading the instructions.
About Jiankun Sun & Yiqin Zhou
He is an industrial designer,now he is studying in Wuhan University of Technology.He likes to observe life state of people in the use of small objects, and finds the breakthrough point for the design，Sometimes just a small change will greatly facilitate People's Daily activities.He just wants to do something interesting and to help others and myself.
Award Record
This recognition makes Jiankun Sun & Yiqin Zhou a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Packaging Design Award
The A' Packaging Design Award is an international packaging competition that recognizes outstanding packaging designs by talented packaging designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. The awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
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/55352
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/55352
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!55352
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/171996
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Petals Multifunctiona drug packaging
- Function
- Multifunctiona drug packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dodger Blue, Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Wuhan University of Technology
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jiankun Sun & Yiqin Zhou
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2016 - 2017
- Design ID
- #55352
Credits
- Team
- Jiankun Sun, Yiqin Zhou and Gaoliang Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a drug package designed for the old man.The packaging using seven petals modelling design, each petals corresponding to a day's dosage of separate, and there is a corresponding number markers, It is convenient for old people to identify .The disc in the middle set the cutting line to facilitate easy access single pill.When breaking the petals the part of the foil will be torn at the same time, and the number also be destroyed in the middle of the figures, Destruction of Numbers suggest the old man to take another medicine today.In the middle of the transparent part is convex type of plastic,in the transparent plastic filled with water,it has the function of magnifying glass...
- Inspiration
- This is a drug package designed for the old man.The shapeof the design is inspired by flowers,and the motive is I want to help my grandfather to take medicine more convenient. The old man due to age and body, hand function degradation, their fingers is flexible, hard to tear tin foil and taking drugs;Can't see the instructions because of eyes degradation and presbyopia;Memory degradation,always forget whether to take any medicine or how many pills to take, etc.So I want to design a drug packaging, on the premise of not to raise the cost of production, to facilitate the old man to use.
- Research
- This is a drug package designed for the old man.The old man due to age and body, hand function degradation, their fingers is flexible, hard to tear tin foil and taking drugs;Can't see the instructions because of eyes degradation and presbyopia;Memory degradation,always forget whether to take any medicine or how many pills to take, etc.The packaging using seven petals modelling design, each petals corresponding to a day's dosage of separate, and there is a corresponding number markers, It is convenient for old people to identify .The disc in the middle set the cutting line to facilitate easy access single pill.When breaking the petals the part of the foil will be torn at the same time, and...
- Challenge
- For the old man, to break the traditional form of particles in the packing of the drugs and use that for drugs in the elderly is easy to identify, easy to take, the innovative use of water transparency, fusion function of magnifying glass, make old people don't use the small text on the external tool can directly read the instructions.Difficulty is in the middle of the zoom function part of the actual sealing and circular modelling for certain waste of space.
- Realization and Technology
- Middle transparent part adopts convex type thin plastic sheet, middle seal water, form a magnifier function at the same time saving plastic material, green environmental protection.Peripheral part adopts now generic drug packaging materials such as plastic and foil, mature technology, the cost is easy to control,ang it is very cheap.
- Operation and Interaction
- when once two grains be taken，direct break a disc and the foil also will be torn, when Taking a single grain, from the cutting line broken, number will be destroyed at the same time, reminding still need take one more pill today.When you need to read the instructions information, the middle of the transparent part can be used directly as a magnifying glass.
- Project Duration and Location
- Projektdauer is 3 weeks.The project started in February 2017 in Wuhan University of Technologyand finished in march 2017 in Wuhan University of Technology.
- Specifications
- The size of the packaging is 100mm x 100 mm x 100 mm .Using tin foil and plastic material, and the existing pharmaceutical packaging material the same. The middle of the transparent part of the plastic wrapped with transparent liquid material, has a good light transmission,Using optical principles to make it has a magnifying glass function, user-friendly to read the use of books, while reducing manufacturing costs, ring design to maximize the use of space.
- Keywords
- Ease to use, reminding, interesting, multi-functional,help to read,can be used as a magnifying glass
