Float Ke Kīʻaha Inu by Fang Shih and Tian-Yu Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Lako Hōʻoma, Pā ʻAi, Kiʻaha a me Lako Kuke Competition Category.
HaoLako Kuke· 2020
Float Ke Kīʻaha Inu
Client: Float
A' Design Award Hao Winner in Lako Kuke Category
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About Float Ke Kīʻaha Inu
He kīʻaha hoʻohou hou ʻia ʻo Float i hana ʻia no ka inu ʻana i ke kī poʻi ʻōpuʻu me ka ʻole o ke kohi. Mālama ʻia nā ʻōpuʻu e kekahi kīʻaha loko ma luna o ke kī, no laila e hiki mai like ana nā ʻōpuʻu a me ke kī i ka waha i ka wā e hāpai ʻia ai ke kīʻaha. Hoʻomaha ʻia ke kī e ka hau ma luna ona ma mua o kona inu ʻia ʻana, kahi e pale ai i ka mahana nui o nā inu hope loa e maʻa mau ai me nā kīʻaha kohi. Hana ʻia ʻo Float ma ka hana hoʻokomo pālasitika a me ka hana hoʻokomo silikone, a he 106 ma 106 ma 236 mīlimika kona nui. ʻO ke kumu o kēia hoʻolālā ʻana, ʻo ia ka hōʻemi ʻana i ka hoʻohana ʻia ʻana o nā kīʻaha lele wale a me nā kohi.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Hao
Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Float Ke Kīʻaha Inu 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 Float Ke Kīʻaha Inu 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 Float Ke Kīʻaha Inu 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
- FLOAT is a reusable cup that doesn’t need a straw but still can drink bubble tea. The inner cup put the bubbles above the drink, so the tea and bubbles would arrive at our mouth together while we raise our head to drink. Also, in this way, the tea will be cooled by ice before drinking, which solves the problem that the straw cups always let people drink the bottom part of the drink which isn’t cooled by ice piece above the drink.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 106mm x 106mm x 236mm
- Tags
- reusable, cup, bubble tea, sustainable design
- Production Technology
- plastic injection molding, silicone injection molding
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part in the process is the adjustments of using fluency. Based on our core concept ”the motivation of continuous using comes from a good user experience", we improved and adjusted hundreds of times in details such as the caliber of the rim and the slope of the inner cup, in order to make user has the best drinking experience.
- Research
- “Bubble tea” is an unique street drink culture that is risen in Taiwan since the 1980s. According to media statistics, more than 1.5 billion cups of bubble tea drinks are sold every year in Taiwan, which means there are more than 1.5 billion disposable containers are used every year as well.
Although there are many reusable cups being launched every year in Taiwan, we found that people tend to lower the time of using after buying them. So we did survey, interviews and use mind-mapping to find the reason: the reusable straws are not only difficult to clean, but also not easy to carry around.
That’s why we came up with Float to be the solution to these problems. - Inspiration
- Bubble tea is an unique street drink culture in Taiwan; however, a handful freshness each day brings a billion of disposable plastic cups and plastic straw waste every year. We want to create a experience that is better than the disposable straw cup, and let people be more willing to use reusable cup to purchase bubble tea. reduce the numbers of disposable plastic cups and straws.
- Project Duration
- Started from Nov. 2018 to Dec. 2019
- Operation Flow
- FLOAT is a reusable cup that doesn’t need a straw but still can drink bubble tea. The inner cup put the bubbles above the drink, so the tea and bubbles would arrive at our mouth together while we raise our head to drink. Since people make a billion of disposable plastic cups and plastic straw waste while drinking bubble tea, we want to create a experience that is better than the disposable straw cup, and let people be more willing to use reusable cup to purchase bubble tea, and reduce the numbers of disposable plastic cups and straws.
- Patents
- Patented.
Patent No. M584644
Patent Holder. Wu, Tianyu ; SHIH FANG
Year. 2019 - Team Members
- Fang Shih
Tian-yu Wu - Image Credits
- All Images: Photographer Oni Lai
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