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Gold Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design · 2017

Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle

by Chungsheng Chen and Enyang Chen

  • A' Design Award 2017 Gold Winner in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
  • Awarded April 15, 2017
  • CLIENT: ACDC Creative
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 317,684
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About Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle

Happy Aquarius is a safe and good grip water bottle for all ages. It has a smooth smiling curvature shape designed and eye-catching double sided colors appearance, presenting a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. Made by 100 % recyclable food grade silicone, sustaining temperature range form 220 deg. C to -40 deg. C, no plasticizer leached out and is BPA free. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel, nice in hold and grip. Springiness, elasticity and the hollow structure feature enable the bottle to work-out as hand gripper as well as light-weight dumbbell.

Chung Sheng Chen's Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle represents a notable achievement in contemporary product design, merging functional innovation with expressive character to create objects that transcend mere utility and enter the realm of personal accessories imbued with emotional resonance. The design demonstrates sophisticated understanding of material properties, employing food-grade silicone to achieve both the soft, approachable aesthetic and the practical collapsibility that distinguishes these vessels from conventional rigid containers. The anthropomorphic treatment, rendering each bottle as a friendly bear-like figure complete with molded facial features and ear-shaped handles, reflects broader contemporary tendencies toward character-driven design that establishes emotional connection between user and object. This approach finds precedent in Japanese product design traditions where kawaii aesthetics transform everyday items into companions rather than mere tools, while simultaneously engaging Western design principles of ergonomic functionality and material honesty. The chromatic choices demonstrate careful attention to market positioning, with the vibrant magenta, varied blues, and striking chartreuse appealing across demographic boundaries while maintaining visual coherence as a product family. Technical achievement is evident in the integration of multiple functional elements within a unified sculptural form: the central aperture provides secure gripping during physical activity, the ear-shaped handles accommodate carrying straps, and the material flexibility enables compact storage when empty. The presentation of one bottle in its collapsed state serves as elegant visual demonstration of this innovative feature, inviting viewers to imagine the transformation between use and storage states. The woven carrying straps introduce complementary material texture and suggest active, on-the-go usage scenarios. One might consider how design objects that invite affection through character and personality encourage more sustained use and care, potentially contributing to reduced consumption through emotional durability alongside physical resilience.

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Unique Properties
The smooth smiling curvature design and eye-catching appearance by combination of duo colors, showing a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. Made by 100 % recyclable food grade silicone material, sustaining high low temperature 220deg C ~ -40deg C, safe without any leaching of plasticizer and is BPA free. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel good hold and grip, its flexibility, elasticity and the center hollow structure feature enable the bottle to workout as hand gripper and light-weight dumbbell.
Dimensions & Packaging
Size: L100 W80 H240 mm
Volume: 400ml
Material: FDA food grade silicone
Tags
Silicone, Water, Bottle, Workout, Aquarius.
Production Technology
Material: Using Silicone as the main material for water bottle is the first of its kind.
Production Tech: Double Sided Color Formation method was menifested.
Surface Touching:Silky Soft Touch Coating, enhance the touch of the surface.
Design Challenge
Double sided Color Formation for silicone material is always a challenge, and a curvature hollow structure in the middle of the bottle was even a much tougher challenge. In order to achieve the good hold and grip shape, eye-catching color planning, a special molding technique applied. This kept the team try and error for many times that finally comes up with the good solution.
Project Duration
The project started in 2014 finished in 2015 in Tainan, and was exhibited in 2015 Creative Expo Taiwan as well as 2015 Taipei International Invention Show. Awarded by 2015 GoldenPin Design Award, Taiwan. Design Patent D167870.
Operation Flow
Is a safe and good hold water bottle for all ages. Soft touch coating on the surface, providing a silky feel. Besides its water bottle usage, it can be used as handgripper or dumbbell.
Research
Type of Research: Silicone Material in Daily Use
Research Objectives: To achieve the very first water bottle to be made in silicone material with double sided color and hollow structure.
Methodology: Morphological Analysis, Image Scale.
Data Collections: Market Survey, Target User Analysis.
Research Tools: Solidworks, Sketch-Up, 3D Printing.
Inspiration
When I noticed water bottle made by PC or plastic will leach out plasticizer & BPA, I try to design a bottle safe enough for my children. So I come up with this silicone water bottle with peanut shape which is good hold & grip.
Image Credits
ChungSheng Chen
Patents
Design Patented. Patent No: D167870. Patent holder: Acdesign Associates International CO.,Ltd. 2015. TAIWAN.

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Design Interview about Happy Aquarius Workout Silicone Water Bottle

I'm always set my design inspiration on safety, durable and playful design on the everyday living stuff.

Since my whole family are bringing our own water bottle everyday to work or school, I just want to have a safe, unique, durable and playful bottle for my family. Eventually Happy Aquarius, the workout silicone water bottle came to realize.

I wish to promote it to worldwide market, and develop the 2.0 ver for adult.

It tooks me about 1 years to start from concept sketch to final manufacture product.

When I noticed water bottle made by PC or plastic will leach out plasticizer & BPA, I try to design a bottle safe enough for my children.

This design is already manufactured and officially launched in 2016. After awarded by the A' AWARD, I wish to have someone to sell this design in Europe.

Safety concern when I came to know plastic bottle is not safe enough.

Children, Office worker, Sport exerciser.

Double sided color formation and the curvature hollow structure in the middle are the most significant and differential from others. These make this product special.

Happy Aquarius derived from chinese semantic "Kaihsin Ping", Kaihsin means happy, Ping is the bottle. Since the bottle identified by the hoolow structure in the middle, looks and sounds like open heart, bear the same pronunciation of Kaihsin. Aquarius means the water carrier. So I named it as Happy Aquarius, gives an impression of being happy in bringing water everyday whenever you go.

software: Solidworks , Keyshot.
3D printing.

The smooth smiling curvature design and eye-catching appearance by combination of duo colors, showing a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel good hold and grip, its flexibility, elasticity and the center hollow structure feature enable the bottle to workout as hand gripper and light-weight dumbbell.

Thomas EnYang Chen my son who interned in my studio co-work with the design, Mr. Hu from JinHui Co.,Ltd. the silicone specialist, helping in the manufacturing of the design.

Double sided Color Formation for silicone material is always a challenge, and a curvature hollow structure in the middle of the bottle was even a much tougher challenge. In order to achieve the good hold and grip shape, eye-catching color planning, a special molding technique applied. This kept the team try and error for many times that finally comes up with the good solution.

When I felt my design is special, and is truly the very first of its kind.

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