Pimoji より直感的な錠剤デザイン by Jong Hun Choi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in アイデア・コンセプチュアルデザイン Competition Category.

鉄アイデア· 2020

Pimoji より直感的な錠剤デザイン

by Jong Hun Choi

Client: Hyupsung University

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in アイデア Category

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The Design

About Pimoji より直感的な錠剤デザイン

高齢者は多くの慢性疾患に苦しんでおり、多くの薬を服用しています。しかし、ほとんどの高齢者は、視力や記憶力が弱いため、症状に合わない薬を服用することがよくあります。一方、ほとんどの従来の錠剤は類似しており、区別するのが困難です。ピモジは臓器のような形をしているので、薬がどの臓器や症状に役立つかを簡単に確認できます。これらのPimojiは、高齢者だけでなく、失明に苦しんで薬物を区別できない視覚障害者にも役立ちます。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Pimoji より直感的な錠剤デザインは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Pimoji より直感的な錠剤デザインは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Pimoji より直感的な錠剤デザインは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Pimoji is a new type of pill that is inspired by human organs and changed the shape of the pill to make it more intuitive. Older people suffer from many chronic diseases and are taking as many medicines. However, most elderly people often take medicines that do not fit the symptoms because of poor eyesight and poor memory. On the other hand, most conventional pills are similar and difficult to distinguish. Pimoji is shaped like an organ, so it's easy to see what organs or symptoms the drug can help. These Pimoji will help not only the elderly, but also the blind who suffer from blindness and are unable to distinguish drugs.
Dimensions & Packaging: The size of the largest pill(for example heart shape) size is 12mm x 12mm from to smallest one(for example brain shape) is 10mm x 10mm
Tags: Pill, Drug, Medicine, Universal Design, The Blind, Senior, Older people, Concept Design, Idea Design
Production Technology: The material used in tablets was used as much and as possible to keep them as round as possible to make them easier to swallow.
Design Challenge: It was the biggest challenge to find a symbol that everyone could abstract.
Research: There are many elderly people who suffer from many chronic diseases not only in my country but all over the world. In Korea, studies have shown that these elderly people are taking numerous drugs and are not taking them in the right way. If can't fix taking a lot of medicine, i want them to take it properly. The most fundamental problem was that the generic forms of drugs looked similar, and I decided to focus on the form of drugs, the nature of them. As a result, not only the elderly, but everyone was basically bent on finding abstract symbols and came across it as a human organ.
Inspiration: First, I got a hint by focusing on the poor eyesight of the elderly and the blind. So they could easily distinguish drugs and think about how to take them correctly, so that they could focus on the essence of the pill itself and produce an intuitive form. The result was to use the shape of the organ.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2019 in Suwon, and finished in December 2019 in Hwasung, and was exhibited in Hypsung University Galley in December
Operation Flow: It is designed to make the shape of the organ more intuitive, easy to understand, and even touch it to feel it. Therefore, blind people will be able to use it easily.
Image Credits: All photo credits to Jong hun Choi