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Patrick Kitchen Recycling Bin by Weiwen Xiong Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Homeware Design
Weiwen Xiong recognized for homeware design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Patrick Kitchen Recycling Bin by Weiwen Xiong, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Homeware Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 scored 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.
More About Patrick Kitchen Recycling Bin
Patrick is a kitchen recycling bin designed for sorting household waste. Three separate compartments guide users to separate waste types accurately and support recycling. The main shell is made of environmentally friendly stainless steel, while the top cover, back shell and base are made of degradable plastic. The surface is smooth and has no hidden corners, so cleaning is simple. A pedal opens the lid slowly and quietly, and the lid returns on its own, so the inside is never touched. The lid rotates without striking the wall behind the bin.
About Weiwen Xiong
China's emerging furniture designer-Ren Yu, he is an interesting furniture designer, loves life, and has always been passionate about new things. For Ren Yu, design is not an empty concept, let alone a popular element. It is an insight into rooted life. Expressing his own thinking through design; for design, in addition to form and function, he seeks the beauty of the text of the product, trying to create a dialogue with the user through the product.
Award Record
Weiwen Xiong is a winner of 28 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Decorative Items and Homeware Design Award
The A' Homeware Design Award is an international homeware design competition recognizing good homeware designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to homeware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and ceramic artists from all countries. Typical entries include tableware, lighting fixtures, cookware, decorative accessories, bathroom accessories and furniture. The awarded homeware designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/homeware
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/164149
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164149
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164149
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/294475
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0D5LK9KPC?th=1
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Patrick Kitchen Recycling Bin
- Function
- Kitchen Recycling Bin
- Category
- Homeware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Light Gray, Burly Wood, Dark Gray, Dark Olive Green and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Weiwen Xiong
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164149
Credits
- Team
- Qiuping Liao and Juan Wang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This product uses an innovative three-compartment independent design to guide users to easily achieve accurate garbage classification, promote resource recycling and environmental protection. Silent opening and closing technology ensures that the trash can is quiet and silent during use. Unique open cover does not hit the wall design, through accurate mechanical calculation and structural design, to ensure that the cover in the work of smooth rotation, to avoid collision with the field wall.
- Inspiration
- In home life, the disposal process of domestic waste usually produces some very troublesome problems, such as garbage classification, opening and closing noise, garbage can cleaning, bucket lid opening and closing wall and so on. Based on these pain points, we want to explore a new garbage can product, which cleverly integrates easy cleaning, convenient sorting and silent technology, so that daily waste disposal becomes both efficient and environmentally friendly.
- Research
- In today's increasing attention to environmental protection and sustainable development, we deeply feel the importance of garbage classification for environmental protection. We have observed that people want simple and efficient solutions to deal with the waste generated in their lives. We have integrated the concept of "sorting orderly" and "convenient life" to design this practical and beautiful 3-category garbage can.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge in the realization and research process is how to combine several functional points of "classified design, easy to clean, silent opening and closing, and not hitting the wall", and also need to ensure that the operation is simple, safe and reasonable, and integrated into the home environment. Ultimately, it is hoped that these functions will bring a more convenient and healthy living experience to the home.
- Realization and Technology
- The Patrick main shell is made of environmentally friendly stainless steel plate, with a degradable plastic top cover, back shell and base. The surface is smooth and has no dead corners, which is easy to clean and reduces the difficulty and time cost of cleaning. In particular, it is worth mentioning that its silent open/close cover design, the use of slow down technology, almost silent when opening and closing, to avoid noise generated during use.
- Operation and Interaction
- The operation of this garbage can is very simple and intuitive. Users only need to gently pedal the operation, the lid of the trash can will automatically slowly open, without manual lifting. After the garbage is placed, the lid will automatically return, and the entire process does not need to touch the inside of the trash can, effectively preventing hand pollution and odor.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in October 2023 and will be completed in Shenzhen in June 2024.
- Specifications
- Width 605mm x Depth 427mm x Height 388 mm
- Keywords
- Classified design, easy to clean, silent opening and closing, no damage to the wall.
