Pastoco 饼图板 by Jun Yamazaki and Takuya Osawa

Pastoco 饼图板 by Jun Yamazaki and Takuya Osawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 银奖 in 烘焙用具、餐具、饮具与炊具设计 Competition Category.

银厨具· 2021

Pastoco 饼图板

by Jun Yamazaki and Takuya Osawa

Client: Jun Yamazaki and Takuya Osawa

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 厨具 Category

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The Design

About Pastoco 饼图板

这个饼图板使新婚夫妇能够大致了解他们的食物的平衡程度，而无需称量食物或计算营养价值。该团队针对新情侣推出了这道菜。他们在新婚生活中往往饮食不健康。因为与伴侣的新生活增强了食欲。同时，他们也不想太在意自己的食物而麻烦对方。为了解决这些问题，团队的目标是在轻松控制饮食和享受饮食之间取得平衡。他们从平衡可视化的象征——饼图中获得灵感，实现了这一目标。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Pastoco 饼图板是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Pastoco 饼图板将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Pastoco 饼图板是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This plate visualize the balance of nutrition in foods with its pie chart shape. Fresh couples can grasp how well-balanced their foods are intuitively, without weighing foods or calculating the amount of nutrition. Moreover, the open part shows the target the start of eating way, eating vegetables first. It prevents sharp increase of blood sugar level. Fresh couples can practice positive diet with well-balanced and healthy foods on this plate.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole size of this plate is D220mm x W220mm x H20mm, the diameter of center hole is 70mm. Thanks to its compact size and center hole, if our target fills the plate with foods, the total amount of foods is not so much. And less blank spaces give them an illusion as if they eat a lot. Therefore, they eat less, and are satisfied with it.
The plate also has four colors, natural beige, white, navy and paste pink. Our target can select their favorite color from the variations.
Tags: Tableware, Plate, Healthy foods, Diet, Nutrition, blood sugar level, insulin control
Production Technology: They make this plate with ceramic. And the surface finishing is fine matte texture. Its natural and warm texture makes foods look better. It will motivate them to keep healthy diet. And also, ceramic has good mass-productivity. It is not so expensive and stylish plate.
Fresh couples eat foods with this plate every day. Therefore, they did not select just easy to handle cheap plastic, hard to use stylish wood, but selected ceramic.
Design Challenge: The big challenge was balancing two conflictive factors. For the fresh couples to succeed losing weight with their plate, 1. they can control their foods without conscious restriction, 2. they can enjoy eating as well. Because most of fresh couples are not keen on keeping healthy diet to sacrifice eating happily.
If the plate is separated into small sections for each food, it looks as if the plate forces the target to eating healthy. If the plate has just organic and aesthetic design, it does not have a healthcare function. Through try and error, the team got inspiration from pie chart which is the symbol of visualization of balance, and got over the challenge.
Research: They observed the tastes and behaviors of the target. And they did interviews to them too. As the result, they found their general problems that the target tends to eat unhealthily and get fat after the marriage. Because the fulfilled life with partner enhances the appetite. And one can’t resist eating as much as the other.
Fortunately, a wife has somewhat sense of health more than her husband generally. So she has encouraged him and herself to try losing weight for some times since their marriage. But the strict management can throw cold water on their newly-married life, and get difficulty to keep on it.
Inspiration: Most of fresh couples wish spending healthy and happy life together, but they have difficulty to practice it, especially in what they eat. Because too-managed food restricts their normal life, and they need to pay attention to calories all the time. As a result of these restrictions, they lost pleasure of eating foods. For their targets to keep the healthy diet positively, they try to solve the above problems with design.
Project Duration: Our design work started in March 2020 between London and Osaka, will finish in September 2020 in Osaka in Japan.
Operation Flow: All they need to do is very simple. They should just place foods and dishes on the plate. Here is the colorful pie chart of foods. It shows what food is sufficient and is not sufficient. Now, they wonder how much the ratio of each foods are. If there is a colorful food pie chart in front of them, today’s meal will be ideal.
Team Members: Jun Yamazaki
Takuya Osawa
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Takuya Osawa, Main image, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Takuya Osawa, Colour Variations, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Takuya Osawa, The detail part and texture explanation image, 2020
Image #4: Photographer Takuya Osawa, The image of plate filled with foods, 2020
Image #5: Photographer Jun Yamazaki, The usage scene Image, 2020
Video Credits: Cast Takuya Osawa and Reiri Osawa, Camera Operator Takuya Osawa and Jun Yamazaki, The short feature video, 2020