Spoon Cochlear by MrSmith Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Productum Medicum Competition Category.

FerrumProductum Medicum· 2020

Spoon Cochlear

by MrSmith Studio

Client: PRIMA Lab SA

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Productum Medicum Category

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The Design

About Spoon Cochlear

Cochlear est instrumentum probationis praegnationis semel adhibendum, domesticae usui destinatum. Forma a cochleari inspirationem sumit, formis parvis et mollibus praeditum, cum superficie latiore in regione manubrii. Omnes margines rotundati sunt ut aspectus amicabilis praebeatur, cum probatio in momento privato et affectuoso adhibeatur. Regio comprehensionis inclinata et aucta est ad meliorem ergonomiam et usum intuitivum. Cochlear 130 x 25 x 10 millimetra metitur et 14 grammata pendet. Corpus ex bioplastico iniecto factum est ut vestigium carbonicum minuatur, et crassitudo cuiusque partis calibrata est ut materia servetur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Spoon Cochlear victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Spoon Cochlear creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Spoon Cochlear ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Design of this product started in the analysis of the moment of use. This is a single use product, meant to be used in a very intimate, precious, emotional moment of a woman's life. Therefore all shapes have been softened and rounded in order to have a friendly look and grip area has been tilted and expanded for a better ergonomics.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 25 x 10mm
Weights only 14 grams.
Tags: Medical, health, pregnancy, woman, design, soft, spoon, maternity, babies, comfort, bioplastic, ecofriendly, ingenious, ergonomics
Production Technology: Spoon is made with injected bioplastic, in order to reduce carbon footprint.
Thicknesses of the components has been calibrated in order to save material.
Design Challenge: The wider and tilted grip area required more complex geometry. Main challenge has been to design those shapes being sure that injected plastic pieces were going to match each other perfectly with very little tolerances
Research: Project started with a detailed market research, supported by a research on materials and production techniques.
User interaction and emotions are key factor in this project, therefore shape had to be friendly and comfortable.
Inspiration: Shapes and name of this project take inspiration by the spoon. Small soft shapes with a wider surface for the handle area.
Friendly, reliable and easy to use, this is how a pregnancy test should look like.
Project Duration: Project started in July 2019 and has been launched on the market in January 2020
Operation Flow: The soft shapes and the wider grip area makes ergonomics very easy and interaction with the product is very intuitive.
Patents: Prima Lab
Team Members: MrSmith Studio
Image Credits: MrSmith Studio