Penny Fonction Primària : Tirelira by Dario Narvaez is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Fèrre in Articles de Present Competition Category.
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Penny Fonction Primària : Tirelira
Client: Dario Narvaez Design
A' Design Award de Fèrre Winner in Articles de Present Category
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The Design
About Penny Fonction Primària : Tirelira
Tèxte del libre : Penny es una tirelira concebuda per emmagazinar de moneda. La forma de Penny rapèla una tirelira copada, imatge sovent utilizada per representar una crisi financièra. Penny es fabricada amb dotze pèças de PVC mofladas per injeccion que son mantengudas ensems per d'aimants de neodim. Las pèças pòdon èsser desmontadas a la man, o la tirelira pòt èsser getada per tèrra, puèi tornar montada de 95040 manièras diferentas tot en gardant la meteissa essença e fonction. La susfàcia mata e texturada dissimula las marcas e las rascladuras. Penny es pensada coma un simbòl de resiliéncia e de reconstruccion aprèp una casuda dificila.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Fèrre
Penny Fonction Primària : Tirelira a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que Penny Fonction Primària : Tirelira siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, Penny Fonction Primària : Tirelira merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.
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.
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