Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design Goes to Ouch First Aid Kit by Xiaofei Liu
Xiaofei Liu recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Ouch First Aid Kit by Xiaofei Liu. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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 Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Ouch First Aid Kit
Ouch is a portable first aid kit designed for everyday use. The hexagonal box is made from 60 lb recycled paper, which is lightweight and easy to carry. The container is divided into three compartments that follow three steps of use: cleaning and disinfecting the wound, applying treatment, and bandaging. Essential medical items are sorted and arranged with step-by-step directions. The box opens from the middle of the front surface, which saves time compared with a square box or a zipper. The aim is to let people without medical training act correctly in an emergency.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiaofei Liu 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. Awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/100103
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100103
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100103
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/271631
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ouch First Aid Kit
- Function
- First Aid Kit
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Tomato, Crimson, Salmon, Light Coral and Pink
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaofei Liu
- Country
- Canada
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100103
Credits
- Team
- Xiaofei Liu, Instructor: Albert Ng
- Image Credits
- All Image, Photographer/Creator/Designer Xiaofei Liu, First Aid Kit, 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Do you know how to use a first aid kit? Do you know the procedure of trauma bandaging? Are you a calm person in an emergency? Whether “yes” or “no”, we are introducing you to the best all-purpose mini First Aid Kit, which designed for your injury essential needs. The primary objective is to solve the questions above: how to make existing first-aid package design to become user-friendly and make medical items further organized. The secondary purpose is to make the package more portable.
- Inspiration
- This is a portable first aid kit designed for everyday life. While becoming more environmentally friendly, we want all ordinary people without professional medical knowledge to be able to use the first aid kit easily and correctly in emergency situations. Do you know how to use a first aid kit? Do you know the procedure of trauma bandaging? Are you a calm person in an emergency? The questions above are where the project started.
- Research
- We investigated the shape, size and content of at least 10 brands of first aid kits in the GTA market. Then I made various attempts with boxes of different shapes, and finally got our existing hexagon box style through continuous design.
- Challenge
- The hardest part of the whole creative process is to select the right medical items. We did lots of medical research about how to bind up a wound. Some essential first aid items are carefully selected in this first aid kit, and these items are sorted and arranged in 3 easy step-by-step use directions. The container is divided into three compartments: The first step is to clean and disinfect the wound, the second step is to apply various treatment drugs, and the third step is bandaging.
- Realization and Technology
- The project is made from 60lb weight recycle paper. The design was initially designed in Adobe Illustrator. Then we used a Laser cut machine to cut the box, and then we used a vinyl sticker machine to print the colour surface and numbers on the top.
- Operation and Interaction
- First of all, we used paper packaging, which is highly environmentally friendly, handy and lightweight, which suitable for carrying around. Then we divided the process of using the first aid kit into three steps: disinfection, treatment and bandaging. Through continuous design iterations, we used the method of opening the hexagonal box from the middle part of the front surface. The advantage of this opening method is to save time for injury. After experimentations, we discovered that opening from the front cover is 1 to 2 seconds faster than a traditional square box or zipper.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2019 Toronto and finished in November 2019 Toronto (5 weeks).
- Specifications
- Width: 14cm Height: 12cm Depth: 2.3cm
- Keywords
- Emotional design, handy, fast, easy to open, travel kit, step-by-step guide through
