Press Release
Haiming Chen Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Aouball Pizza Oven in Home Appliances Design
Haiming Chen honored for home appliances design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Aouball Pizza Oven by Haiming Chen, designed for ZhongshanAouballElectricappliancesCo.,Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Aouball Pizza Oven
Aouball is a pizza oven designed for home kitchens. Upper and lower heating tubes simulate the double heat sources of a traditional pizza furnace, giving 360 degree even heating up to 450 degrees Celsius. PID temperature control keeps the heat stable, and a pizza stone holds a proper moisture level for a crisp base. A pizza can be baked in 90 seconds. A touch screen sets time and temperature and offers four preset modes. A dedicated application allows remote control. Bread and biscuits can also be baked. The body measures 450 by 440 by 302 millimeters.
About Haiming Chen
Zhongshan Aouball Electric Appliances Co., Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is located in Nantou Town, Zhongshan, a key hub for small home appliance manufacturing in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The company is a professional manufacturer specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and sales of mid- to high-end kitchen appliances. Aouball has long been dedicated to the field of Western-style kitchen appliances, with products covering air fryers, steam ovens, meat grinders, slow juicers, coffee machines, and other categories.
Award Record
Haiming Chen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Home Appliances Design Award
The A' Home Appliance Design Award is an international competition recognizing good home appliance designs by best appliance designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to home appliance designers, industrial designers, product engineers and appliance brands from all countries. Entries typically include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. Awarded home appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/home-appliance
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/162483
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162483
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162483
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/356703
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Aouball Pizza Oven
- Function
- Pizza Oven
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, Dim Gray, Dark Khaki, Dark Slate Gray and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- ZhongshanAouballElectricappliancesCo.,Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Haiming Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162483
Credits
- Team
- Xiuhong Huang,, Yi Yang,, Haiming Chen,, Tianling Liao,, Junmin Liang,, Peichen Yang, and Xieming Liang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This pizza oven aims to provide users with a convenient, efficient solution to make delicious pizzas. Its pizza stone helps to reproduce the crispy bottom of traditional pizzas, while the upper and lower heating tubes paired with PID temperature control technology allow for even and quick heating, whereby the product can complete the baking process in just 90 s. The dedicated APP enables users to remotely control the oven, ensuring a smarter cooking process.
- Inspiration
- To enhance the convenience of use, this pizza oven can quickly complete the baking of a delicious pizza in just 90 s, which overcomes the time consuming problem in traditional pizza making. Thanks to its compact body, the product is harmonious with the home kitchen scenario. It can also be used to bake bread, biscuits, etc., eliminating the need of purchasing multiple devices.
- Research
- With the accelerated pace of modern life, the traditional pizza making method, which features long time consumption and needs special equipment, fails to meet people’s pursuit of convenience and efficiency. This home pizza oven, by virtue of its pizza stone and smart temperature control system, can quickly complete the baking of a delicious pizza in just 90 s, which significantly shortens the baking time while retaining the essence of the traditional pizza baking process.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge was how to integrate traditional craftsmanship and modern technology. To address that, the upper and lower heating tubes inside the oven simulate the double heat sources in a traditional pizza furnace to achieve 360 degree even heating, with the maximum temperature up to 450 degrees Celsius, greatly improving the baking efficiency. Meanwhile, the pizza stone on the bottom can maintain a proper moisture level during the baking process to achieve the best flavor.
- Realization and Technology
- The well insulated product effectively prevents leakage of electricity. The pizza oven without openings boasts an IP4 waterproof rating. The temperature of the shell is always below 70℃. The air ducts facilitate convection to further reduce the surface temperature, greatly improving the safety. The window made of explosion proof, heat resistant and transparent tempered glass invites users to clearly observe the baking process, providing a more convenient and safer experience.
- Operation and Interaction
- The touch screen allows users to freely adjust cooking parameters including time and temperature for personalized pizza making. It also provides four preset traditional pizza flavor modes, whereby users can effortlessly complete professional pizza baking processes. The dedicated APP supports remote control of the oven and offers diverse pizza recipes. A built-in active cooling system ensures the temperature of the shell is always below 60 degrees Celsius, so as to better safeguard users.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November, 2023 in Guangdong, and was launched in May, 2024 in the United States and Germany.
- Keywords
- pizza oven, smart temperature control, kitchen appliance, integrated design, versatility
