Forget 電気ケトル by Cai Wanya is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 家庭用電化製品デザイン Competition Category.
銀家庭用電化製品· 2024
Forget 電気ケトル
by Cai Wanya
Client: Edenus Art Co.,Ltd
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 家庭用電化製品 Category
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About Forget 電気ケトル
Forgetは、お茶を愛する人々のため、そして静かな茶室での使用を想定してデザインされた電気ケトルです。台形のボディ、円形のハンドル、そして持ち上げられた円柱状のベースは、座して瞑想する人の姿を想起させ、東洋の茶道の精神を映し出しています。ハンドルには赤外線センサーが組み込まれています。センサーバーの上で手を手前から奥へと動かすと湯沸かしが始まり、逆方向に手を動かすと加熱が停止します。ベースは鋳鉄製で、安定感を高めています。また、持ち上げられたベースは電源コードを収納し、電源接続部を水から遠ざける役割も果たします。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Forget 電気ケトルは、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Forget 電気ケトルは、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Forget 電気ケトルは、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is a water kettle especially suitable for tea lovers to use in a quiet tea room. Based on the oriental tea ceremony culture, the kettle is designed to simplify the relationship between humans and machines (the kettle) and to reduce unnecessary interactions, so as to keep the environment quiet and let tea makers feel relaxed and more focused. Its design demonstrates a delicate balance between culture and function, conveying a peaceful visual experience and also facilitating water pouring.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 170mm*193mm*243mm
- Tags
- Tea lovers Kettle, far Infrared Technology, isolated operation, Artistic Beauty, Sitting Meditation,Stableness
- Production Technology
- The trapezoidal pot body has a stable center of gravity, forming a "line and plane" contrast with the handle and base. Also, the base is made of cast iron, which increases the suction force with the table surface and maintains the overall stability of the kettle. The heightened base increases visual layers and at the same time provides the function of storing electric wires. More importantly, the power interface is located in a higher position, perfectly avoiding the potential safety hazard caused by water entering the power interface.
- Design Challenge
- The principle of the gesture-sensing switch: two infrared sensing components are used to send the data collected within a certain time range to MCU Firmware for recognition. When a human hand waves above the infrared sensor, it will emit signals to the receiver. Therefore,after the sensors trigger signals from two angles in sequence, MUC can recognize human behaviors and turn on or off the power supply accordingly.
- Research
- Currently, most kettles on the market look either heavy or dull. For this kettle, the designer subverted the traditional operation mode and applied an infrared sensor in the handle. As a result, users only need to wave a hand back or forth to start or stop boiling water. It's very convenient. Additionally, the non-contact design takes good care of users' psychological needs as it ensures safer operations.
- Inspiration
- The pot type of Sitting Meditation is developed from the concept of Taste Zen in Tea. The round handle and trapezoidal pot body outline a Zen meditator.The column support base with a heightened bottomforms the image of a meditator sitting cross-legged in the air, which makes people feel the poetic realm of forgetting both things and ourselves.To better conform to users’ sitting posture while making tea, the thickened handle design not only makes it easier for users to hold but also saves effort in pouring water into the teapot. The transition of the handle from thin to thick is inspired by the simple and fluent brushwork of Huai Su,a Chinese cursive calligrapher of the Tang dynasty.
- Project Duration
- The project was developed in Xiamen in March 2021 and launched in China in November 2022.
- Operation Flow
- Infrared Sensor Switch
The designer subverted the traditional operation mode and applied an infrared sensor to the handle. The on/off gesture operation is highly user-friendly. Users can boil water by waving a hand above the sensor light bar from front to back and stop heating by waving in the opposite direction. The operation gesture is similar to some moves of Chinese Kong Fu that are freely retractable. The gesture-sensing loop handle also echoes the spirit of the oriental tea ceremony.
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