Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home by Nio Life

Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home by Nio Life is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Lako Hale Competition Category.

HaoLako Hale· 2022

Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home

by Nio Life

Client: NIO Life

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Lako Hale Category

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The Design

About Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home

He ʻohana mea ʻala home ʻo Nio X Csm i hana ʻia me ka porcelain. Aia i loko o kēia hōʻiliʻili nā mea paʻa ʻaila kumu, nā mea puhi ʻala, a me nā mea paʻa kukui. Hoʻohana kēlā me kēia mea i ke ʻano ʻōpuʻu pōhaku like, i hoʻoponopono mālie ʻia no kēlā me kēia hoʻohana ʻana, no laila, hiki ke hoʻohana ʻia kēia ʻohana ma nā ʻano he nui a maʻalahi ka hana ʻana. Ua koho ʻia ka porcelain no ka mea, hoʻopili kēia mea i nā ʻaila kumu a mālama i ke ʻala no ka wā lōʻihi aku. Maʻalahi ka hoʻohana ʻana, no ka mea, kau ʻia nā mea ʻala ma luna o ka pōhaku. Hiki nō hoʻi i nā pōhaku ke lawelawe ma ke ʻano he mea hoʻonani ma luna o nā pākaukau a me nā papa puke, a i ʻole e lawe ʻia i ka wā huakaʻi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home 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 Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home 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 Nio X Csm Ka Mea Paʻa ʻAla Home 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: This is a Home Fragrance range including essential oil holders, incense burners and candle holders. The project combines NIO’s Blue Sky Coming vision with modern Scandinavian simplicity and usability, aiming to create a simple product which can be placed anywhere in the home. Each product uses the same beautiful pebble form and slightly adjusted, makes this a versatile design, simple to produce and with room to expand. Simple yet nature shape highlights the details of pebble form and also fragrance.
Dimensions & Packaging: Multi dimensions
Production Technology: Porcelain
Design Challenge: The challenge in the design process was how to make the fragrance last longer. Through researching materials and carrying out tests, the designer chose to concentrate on using Porcelain to absorb the essential oils, in order to keep the fragrance for a longer period of time. These pebbles can also be portable and used as car fragrance.
Research: As a group we spent time researching NIO’s values and what might fit in with their company brand and vision. My role throughout the group work was to research climate change, sustainable materials and ethical practice within ceramics. This research later influenced my choice of using natural air purifying materials, such as Bee’s Wax Candles and White Sage incense - both proven to remove toxins from air in the home.
Inspiration: Inspired by the Blue Sky Coming vision, the product aims to create a picture: Being on the beach, where the air is freshest and you can almost taste the sea. Spending time outdoors, picking up pebbles and feeling the physically comforting stones. The products enable users to sense sea at home and convey the concept that people all breath freely and run happily under the blue sky.
Project Duration: Started in August 2018, first sale in February 2020.
Operation Flow: All users need to do is very simple. They should just place fragrance items on the products. The products add joy and relaxation for users both at home and during travel. Further, it can be placed as decoration on tables or bookshelves.
Team Members: NIO Life
Miranda Swanson
Paprika Williams