Interviews with ChungSheng Chen

Since my whole family are bringing our own water bottle everyday to work or school, I just want to have a safe, unique, durable and playful bottle for my family. Eventually Happy Aquarius, the workout silicone water bottle came to realize.

I wish to promote it to worldwide market, and develop the 2.0 ver for adult.

It tooks me about 1 years to start from concept sketch to final manufacture product.

When I noticed water bottle made by PC or plastic will leach out plasticizer & BPA, I try to design a bottle safe enough for my children.

This design is already manufactured and officially launched in 2016. After awarded by the A' AWARD, I wish to have someone to sell this design in Europe.

Safety concern when I came to know plastic bottle is not safe enough.

Children, Office worker, Sport exerciser.

Double sided color formation and the curvature hollow structure in the middle are the most significant and differential from others. These make this product special.

Happy Aquarius derived from chinese semantic "Kaihsin Ping", Kaihsin means happy, Ping is the bottle. Since the bottle identified by the hoolow structure in the middle, looks and sounds like open heart, bear the same pronunciation of Kaihsin. Aquarius means the water carrier. So I named it as Happy Aquarius, gives an impression of being happy in bringing water everyday whenever you go.

software: Solidworks , Keyshot.
3D printing.

The smooth smiling curvature design and eye-catching appearance by combination of duo colors, showing a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel good hold and grip, its flexibility, elasticity and the center hollow structure feature enable the bottle to workout as hand gripper and light-weight dumbbell.

Thomas EnYang Chen my son who interned in my studio co-work with the design, Mr. Hu from JinHui Co.,Ltd. the silicone specialist, helping in the manufacturing of the design.

Double sided Color Formation for silicone material is always a challenge, and a curvature hollow structure in the middle of the bottle was even a much tougher challenge. In order to achieve the good hold and grip shape, eye-catching color planning, a special molding technique applied. This kept the team try and error for many times that finally comes up with the good solution.

When I felt my design is special, and is truly the very first of its kind.