Seawool ケープ by Chungsheng Chen, Eddie Wang and Enyang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銅賞 in サステナブル製品・プロジェクト・グリーンデザイン Competition Category.
銅サステナブル製品· 2023
Seawool ケープ
by Chungsheng Chen, Eddie Wang and Enyang Chen
Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in サステナブル製品 Category
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The Design
About Seawool ケープ
シーウールケープの重さはわずか300グラムで、軽量で扱いやすく、洗濯可能です。リサイクルされたペットボトルと廃棄された貝殻からのナノ化カキ殻粉末を組み合わせて作られたシーウール糸から作られており、廃棄物を削減するだけでなく、温度調節、防臭性、湿気管理、速乾性の柔らかいウールなどのパフォーマンス上の利点も提供します。化学抗菌剤無添加で、静電気防止、抗菌効果もあり、肌に優しく、より良い着用感を提供します。シーウールはまさに海洋から得られる持続可能な素材です。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Seawool ケープは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Seawool ケープは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Seawool ケープは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Seawool cape weight only 300 grams, is light and easy to handle with woolen touch and washable. It is made from seawool yarn which is the combination of the nanolized oyster shell powder from discarded shells and the recycle PET bottle plastic. Not only reduces waste, but delivers performance benefits like thermal regulation, odor resistance, moisture management and quick dry, anti-static, antibacterial, no chemical antibacterial agents added which friendly to the user's skin.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Material: Recycle Oyster Shell, PET/Acrylic/Rayon/Poly
colors: 5 colors
Length180cm x Width70 cm - Tags
- Seawool, cape, shawl, ootd, sustainable, functional, fabric
- Production Technology
- Material: Recycle Oyster Shell PET/Acrylic/Rayon/Poly
Production Tech: The oyster shells are washed and dried and calcined at 100°C for 5 hours, and then ground to a thickness below 1 μm to become oyster shell powder. Then recycled PET and oyster shell powder are mixed with a secret formula and spun into yarn, which is finally spun into fabric.
Surface Touching: Wool feel - Design Challenge
- In Taiwan, the oyster farming has existed for more than 300 years. Under meticulous cultivation by farmers, oyster becomes one of the most famous delicacies in Taiwan. People can enjoy plump oyster meals from fine restaurant to even local night market. However, the Taiwanese has ignored the wastage behind, the shells. Turning waste into treasure is the most challenging issue. After years of researching and studying, we successfully find the way to strengthen the inherited gift from these discarded shells and combine with recycle PET bottles to create a brand-new functional product applied in the textile, we named it Seawool.
- Research
- Making used of the recycled plastic PET bottle and oyster shell to produce a special yarn for many textile application, we entitled this yarn as seawool, which was inspired by its wool-like construction and hand’s feel. The oyster was nurtured by the coast and enriched with minerals from ocean. In this way, the textiles made by discarded shells are inherent in several functions and make people have a better wearing experience. Seawool not only reduces waste, but delivers performance benefits like thermal regulation, odor resistance, moisture management and quick dry, truly sustainable materials from the ocean.
- Inspiration
- In Taiwan, more than 160,000 tons of oysters are eaten every year, as the result, oyster shell waste has caused serious environment issue and coastal ecology. How to deal with these pollution sources has become a problem. we discovered that specially treated oyster shells can increase the functions of far-infrared negative ions, antibacterial, deodorizing, and anti-ultraviolet rays, so we make full use of the oyster shell and recycle pet bottle to developed the functional fiber of Seawool yarn.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April,2022 published in January,2023 in Tainan, on sell in zeczec crowdfunding platform, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- Is a rectangular cape,can be use in the office, beach, sofa, bed,5 colors to match your outfit
- Patents
- IP: Creative Tech Textile
- Team Members
- ChungSheng Chen
Eddie Wang
Enyang Chen
Tingyuan Lin
Tainan University of Technology Product Design Dept
Acdesign Associates International Co.,Ltd
Creative Tech Textile Co., Ltd
Hans Global LLC. - Image Credits
- image#1~#5: acdesign associates International Co.,Ltd.
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