Billund Molinum Aromatum by Sam Murley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Instrumenta Culinae Competition Category.

ArgentumInstrumenta Culinae· 2024

Billund Molinum Aromatum

by Sam Murley

Client: CrushGrind

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Instrumenta Culinae Category

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The Design

About Billund Molinum Aromatum

Billund est molinum aromatum factum ad aromata integra et mixturas condimentorum. Instrumentum molendi in summo positum est, itaque molinum inter usum invertitur nullasque reliquias in mensa relinquit. Nodus temperandi in summo crassitudinem farinae constituit. Obturamentum siliconeum in fundo facilem impletionem variis aromatibus vel mixturis permittit. Involucrum totum factum est ex materia bio-composita fibrarum cellulosae ligni et oleorum e pulpa lignea inter chartae fabricationem extractorum. Forma colorata a lateribus aedificatoriis inspirata est.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Billund Molinum Aromatum victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Billund Molinum Aromatum opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Billund Molinum Aromatum creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The Billund grinder is an upside-down grinder that does not leave any residues on the table. It has a silicone plug at the bottom that makes it easy to fill up with any spices or blends you love using.
The Billund series is a fun, playful design inspired by the colourful building blocks of Denmark.
The housing of the Billund grinder is made entirely of a sustainable bio-composite.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 60mm x Depth 60mm x Height 120mm
Tags: Spice mill, spice grinder, danish design, sustainable, biocomposite, colours
Production Technology: The housing of the Billund grinder is made entirely of a sustainable bio-composite.
The material comes from a combination of wood cellulose fibres and the oils that are squeezed out of wood pulp when making paper.
All of this ‘raw material’ wood can be traced back to sustainably managed forests and is actually ‘waste’ from other industries.
I am proud to use a low carbon footprint alternative to traditional plastic that doesn’t interfere with any food-production chain, unlike crop-based biomaterials.
Inspiration: This grinder was made to inspire people to use more whole spices and different seasonings. Instead of having jars of different spices, why not have grinders? The idea was to inject more fun, playfulness and colour into a product that, traditionally, has a very different design language.
The colour palette was chosen by Danish designers, Stilleben, to reflect the wonderful colours of ingredients found in the kitchen.
It was important to use a responsible and sustainable approach to developing the product. Therefore, we used a ceramic grinder inside the product and a bio-composite housing.
Project Duration: The project started in Copenhagen in March 2021 and is now in production.
Operation Flow: This is called an upside-down grinder as the grinding burr is at the top of the product. This means you need to pick up the product and turn it upside-down when using. The benefit to this is that there are no residues left on the table when you put it down/lift it up. Also, it means that the coarseness adjustment is an easily accessible user friendly 'knob' on top of the product.