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Bronze A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design Goes to Atomberg Intellon Water Purifier by Utkarsh Gautam and Zulqarnain Najar
Utkarsh Gautam and Zulqarnain Najar recognized for home appliances design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Atomberg Intellon Water Purifier by Utkarsh Gautam and Zulqarnain Najar, designed for Atomberg Technologies pvt., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 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.
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 Atomberg Intellon Water Purifier
Atomberg Intellon is a water purifier for household use. The purifier senses incoming water quality and routes water through only the required treatment stages. This adaptive flow reduces reject water, lowers energy use and limits wear on consumables, so filter life is extended. A taste setting offers flat, smooth and crisp profiles, and an embedded display shows live water quality readings. A halo status ring indicates tank level, operating mode and faults. A diagnostics mode identifies a single faulty component, and a companion app supports usage logging and filter life tracking.
Award Record
With this recognition, Utkarsh Gautam and Zulqarnain Najar is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. It 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. Typical entries include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. The awarded home appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/home-appliance
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/178705
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/178705
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!178705
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/376669
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Atomberg Intellon Water Purifier
- Function
- Water Purifier
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray, Midnight Blue and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Atomberg Technologies pvt.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Utkarsh Gautam and Zulqarnain Najar
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #178705
Credits
- Team
- Utkarsh Gautam and Zulqarnain Najar
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Atomberg Intellon is a smart, app connected water purifier that senses incoming water quality and routes it through only the required stages via Adaptive Flow. This reduces reject water, energy use and consumable wear, extending filter life. Taste Tune (Flat / Smooth / Crisp), live TDS and a Halo Status Ring make performance instantly understandable. Diagnostics mode enables identification of faulty component.
- Inspiration
- Intellon was inspired by the mismatch between highly variable household water quality and fixed, over treating purification systems. The project set out to deliver trustworthy, great tasting drinking water with substantially lower reject water, energy and service waste, while presenting a calm, hygienic form with glanceable feedback of vitals.
- Research
- We studied water from many parts of India and spoke with families about what they consider “good tasting” drinking water. We tested samples, visited homes, and tried early versions of the purifier. Families also did blind taste checks. This helped define the main water situations and shape Intellon to adjust on its own, offer taste choices, and make service simple saving water and building trust.
- Challenge
- The main challenge was to translate complex, sensor driven purification decisions into a calm product users can trust without a screen. The team balanced reject water reduction, energy efficiency and taste personalization with manufacturable modular cartridges and serviceability. Building reliable self diagnostics that isolate a single failing element rather than triggering blanket filter changes required careful system design within cost and maintenance constraints.
- Realization and Technology
- Adaptive Flow pairs water quality sensing with a real time control algorithm to actuate valves and route water through only the required purification stages. The product architecture prioritizes hygienic, easy to clean surfaces with subtle micro textures resist stains. A Halo status Ring communicates different modes, while an embedded TDS display provides real time input and output readings. Modular cartridges and on device diagnostics help isolate the specific failing component for efficient service. A companion app connects wirelessly for usage logging, filter life tracking and support.
- Operation and Interaction
- Users dispense water by pressing the front liver; The Status Ring shows tank level and operating mode at a glance and flags faults. users can switch between the different Taste profiles via app. The display provides live TDS analysis. Diagnostics mode pinpoints the specific faulty components, and the app enables one tap service, filter ordering and setting change.
- Project Duration and Location
- the project stated in march 2024, completed in June 2025 in Maharashtra , India,
- Specifications
- 417 mm width , 344 mm depth, 765mm Hight, 11.5Kg weight, IoT Enabled
- Keywords
- water purifier, adaptive purification, smart appliance, water saving, sustainability, filter diagnostics, taste tuning, halo status ring, app connected
