Billund Molinet d'espècias by Sam Murley

Billund Molinet d'espècias by Sam Murley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award d'Argent in Ustensilis de Cosina Competition Category.

ArgentUstensilis de Cosina· 2024

Billund Molinet d'espècias

by Sam Murley

Client: CrushGrind

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Ustensilis de Cosina Category

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The Design

About Billund Molinet d'espècias

Billund es un molinet d'espècias concebut per las espècias entièras e los mescladisses d'assasonament. La mòla de mòuta es plaçada en naut, atal lo molinet se vira cap aval pendent l'utilizacion e daissa pas cap de residú sus la taula. Un boton de reglatge en naut permet de causir la finesa de la mòuta. Un tap de silicòna a la basa facilita l'emplenatge amb d'espècias o de mescladisses diferents. Lo còs es fach entièrament d'un biocompausat de fibras de cellulòsa de fusta e d'òlis extrachs de la pasta de fusta pendent la fabricacion del papièr. Lo dessenh colorat s'inspira dels blòts de construccion.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Billund Molinet d'espècias a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent, una reconeissença extraordinàriament prestigiosa acordada a de designs d'ort de gamma, esplendids e impressionants. Los ganhaires de l'Argent son d'òbras terriblament brilhantas e extrèmament creativas que illustran l'experiéncia, lo talent e la finessa excepcionals de lors designers. S'espèra que Billund Molinet d'espècias siá una òbra meravilhosa e de referéncia, notablament professionala e prigondament innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent es una invencion fòrça notabla e admirada, que fa un ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Billund Molinet d'espècias es una creacion immensament envejada que desrevelha de desirs, aduch de sentiments positius e fa néisser l'estonament e l'esmaiment.

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.