Spoon Hoʻāʻo Hāpai by MrSmith Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Mea Lapaʻau a me Lako Lapaʻau Competition Category.

HaoHuahana Lapaʻau· 2020

Spoon Hoʻāʻo Hāpai

by MrSmith Studio

Client: PRIMA Lab SA

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Huahana Lapaʻau Category

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The Design

About Spoon Hoʻāʻo Hāpai

ʻO Spoon he hoʻāʻo hāpai hoʻohana hoʻokahi i hoʻolālāʻia no ka hoʻohana home. Loaʻa ke ʻano mai kahi puna, me nā kiʻi palupalu liʻiliʻi a me kahi ʻili ākea aʻe no ka wahi paʻa lima. Ua poepoeʻia nā ʻaoʻao a pau e hāʻawi i ke ʻano lokomaikaʻi, no ka mea, hoʻohanaʻia kēia hoʻāʻo i kahi manawa pilikino a hoʻāʻo naʻau. Ua hoʻohaʻahaʻaʻia a hoʻonuiʻia ka wahi paʻa lima no ka ergonomika maikaʻi aʻe a me ka hoʻohana noʻonoʻo koke. He 130 x 25 x 10 mm ka nui o Spoon a 14 kāleka kona kaumaha. Hanaʻia ke kino me ka bioplastic hoʻokomoʻia e hōʻemi i ke kaha kalapona, a ua hoʻoponopono pono ʻia ka mānoanoa o kēlā me kēia ʻāpana e mālama i ka mea hana.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Spoon Hoʻāʻo Hāpai i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Spoon Hoʻāʻo Hāpai he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Spoon Hoʻāʻo Hāpai no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Design of this product started in the analysis of the moment of use. This is a single use product, meant to be used in a very intimate, precious, emotional moment of a woman's life. Therefore all shapes have been softened and rounded in order to have a friendly look and grip area has been tilted and expanded for a better ergonomics.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 25 x 10mm
Weights only 14 grams.
Tags: Medical, health, pregnancy, woman, design, soft, spoon, maternity, babies, comfort, bioplastic, ecofriendly, ingenious, ergonomics
Production Technology: Spoon is made with injected bioplastic, in order to reduce carbon footprint.
Thicknesses of the components has been calibrated in order to save material.
Design Challenge: The wider and tilted grip area required more complex geometry. Main challenge has been to design those shapes being sure that injected plastic pieces were going to match each other perfectly with very little tolerances
Research: Project started with a detailed market research, supported by a research on materials and production techniques.
User interaction and emotions are key factor in this project, therefore shape had to be friendly and comfortable.
Inspiration: Shapes and name of this project take inspiration by the spoon. Small soft shapes with a wider surface for the handle area.
Friendly, reliable and easy to use, this is how a pregnancy test should look like.
Project Duration: Project started in July 2019 and has been launched on the market in January 2020
Operation Flow: The soft shapes and the wider grip area makes ergonomics very easy and interaction with the product is very intuitive.
Patents: Prima Lab
Team Members: MrSmith Studio
Image Credits: MrSmith Studio