Penny Гахайн хайрцаг by Dario Narvaez is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Төмөр шагнал in Бэлэг дурсгалын зүйлийн дизайн Competition Category.

ТөмөрБэлэг дурсгал· 2022

Penny Гахайн хайрцаг

by Dario Narvaez

Client: Dario Narvaez Design

A' Design Award Төмөр шагнал Winner in Бэлэг дурсгал Category

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The Design

About Penny Гахайн хайрцаг

Пенни бол зоос хадгалах зориулалттай гахайн хайрцаг юм. Пеннигийн хэлбэр нь санхүүгийн хямралыг илэрхийлэхэд ихэвчлэн ашиглагддаг эвдэрсэн гахайн хайрцгийг санагдуулдаг. Пенни нь неодимийн соронзоор бэхлэгдсэн арван хоёр инжекц цутгамал ПВХ хэсгээс бүрддэг. Эдгээр хэсгүүдийг гараар салгаж болох бөгөөд эсвэл хайрцгийг шалан дээр шидээд, дараа нь мөн чанар, үйл ажиллагааг нь хадгалсаар 95040 өөр аргаар дахин угсарч болно. Мат бүтэцтэй гадаргуу нь ор мөр, зураастай болохыг нуун далдалдаг. Пенни нь хүнд уналтын дараа дахин босч, сэргэн тэсвэрлэх чадварын бэлгэдэл болохоор зохион бүтээгдсэн юм.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Төмөр шагнал

Penny Гахайн хайрцаг нь A' Design Award Төмөр шагналын ялагч бөгөөд сайн зохиогдсон бүтээлээс хүлээгддэг мэргэжлийн болон үйлдвэрлэлийн шаардлагыг хангасан сайн загварт олгодог нэр хүндтэй хүлээн зөвшөөрөлт юм. Төмөр ялагчид бүтээгчдийнхээ агуу ур чадвар, өндөр мэргэшил, мэргэжилтний ойлголт, бүтээлч чадавхийг харуулдаг. Penny Гахайн хайрцаг нь өндөр үнэлэгдсэн, биширсэн, хайрласан, практик, шинэлэг бүтээл байх болно гэж хүлээгддэг. Төмөр шагнал хүртсэн энэ загвар нь салбарын шилдэг туршлагыг нэгтгэж, мэдлэг, авьяастай холбогдсон чадварлаг техникийн шинж чанартай. Penny Гахайн хайрцаг нь нухацтай байдлаараа хүндлэгддэг бөгөөд амьдралын чанарыг сайжруулж, дэлхийг илүү сайхан газар болгоход туслахаар зохиогдсон.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Penny is a coin container whose aesthetics resembles the symbolic image of a broken piggy bank, commonly used as the representation of a financial crisis or an economic crash. Unlike other piggy banks, Penny provides an enjoyable way to access the loose change: Penny can be broken into pieces and reassembled in thousands of ways while retaining its essence and functionality.
Dimensions & Packaging: The complete piggy bank has a diameter of 127mm, and each part measures 75 x 75 mm. Penny comes in separate pieces in a small packaging of 100mm per side, allowing the enjoyment of immediately assembling the bank after is unboxed. As a Lego set, this way of containing the piggy bank saves time and cost in the assembly line, shipping, and warehousing space.
Tags: piggy, bank, savings, broken, cracks, penny, coins, coin, crash, fall, economy
Production Technology: Penny piggy bank is composed of 12 PVC injection molded parts, 7 unique parts: the ears and the empty parts are repeated. The parts are injected using simple side to side pull angles. The material used in Penny provides a wide range of benefits for this type of application: high resistance to impact, as well as excellent design qualities and finishes. On Penny, the surface finish has a fine textured and matte to conceal marks and scratches from falls or strikes.

Neodymium magnets function as the attaching elements.
Design Challenge: To achieve the initial vision, it was necessary to create and experiment with a computer algorithm using parametrical software to tessellate a sphere into equally chaotic-looking parts, giving the impression that the object was once broken. These modules also needed to be interlocked in any direction, posing an even bigger challenge. It was also important to dial the geometry and the material, work with tight tolerances, simple pull angles, sizes and thickness to create the perfect fit between the parts, as well as keeping a low production cost.
Research: Literature Reviews and Archetype Research were part of the initial Discovery work. The goal was to set the symbolic archetype to store coins, as well as looking for memorable ways to access them. Based on the research, most countries in Latin America, Middle East and Africa and many countries in Europe and Asia, still use cash as a daily currency, and going cashless is far from attainable due to cultural predispositions. The use of cash remains above average in these areas. Piggy banks also are the simplest and most effective way to save loose change, and provide a meaningful and educational way to teach children about the importance of this habit.
Inspiration: After seeing the loss and hardship suffered by millions of people during the pandemic, Penny is a representation of what is lost and broken, can also be recovered in unique and unexpected ways. A message about resilience, of how life can be rebuilt even after the effects of a hard fall. The Japanese tradition of Kintsugi also served as the perfect reference: finding uniqueness and beauty in the brokenness and imperfection by highlighting the cracks as the crucial aesthetic element.
Project Duration: From ideation to product development and manufacturing. The Project started in April 2020 and it was completed by December 2021. Penny is expected to be in the market by the end of 2022.
Operation Flow: Penny provides the users with different and fun ways to access the coins after they have been stored. Penny can be broken into pieces and reassembled in 95.040 ways, while retaining its essence and functionality: It can be thrown onto the floor or hit with a hammer, or it can be assembled and disassembled piece-by-piece.

Also, as in traditional ceramic piggy banks and vinyl toys, Penny serves as a tri-dimensional canvas for customization. The new creations become even more intriguing, unique, and personal after the piggy bank is reassembled in one of the other thousand ways.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Dario Narvaez, 2022
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Liliana Cervantes, Penny Piggy Bank, 2021.
Image #2-4: Photographer Liliana Cervantes, Penny Piggy Bank, 2021.
Video Credits: Editing Camilo Narvaez, 2021.
Music: Ballerina by Yehezkel Raz. Artlist License Number - 852264.