Flowo 数码打字机 by Jody Del Bianco is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 消费电子设计 Competition Category.

铁消费电子· 2022

Flowo 数码打字机

by Jody Del Bianco

Client: Jodinskylab

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 消费电子 Category

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The Design

About Flowo 数码打字机

Flowo是一款专为无干扰写作而设计的数码打字机。其造型令人联想到经典打字机，黑色圆柱形主机身呼应了传统的走纸滚筒。曲面电子墨水屏实时显示键入的文字，内置存储空间用于保存文档。带背光的键盘自主机身向前延伸。两侧的旋钮取代了昔日的卷纸旋钮：左侧旋钮用于浏览菜单，右侧旋钮则可逐行或逐页滚动文档。主机身采用再生塑料通过注塑成型工艺制成。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Flowo 数码打字机是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Flowo 数码打字机将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Flowo 数码打字机因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Flowo's design is inspired by the main parts of a classic typewriter, thus the keyboard, the paper roller and the side knobs that allow by rotation, to insert the paper and move it forward. The device consists of a main body which is black and cylindrical and recalls the old roller plus two side control knobs that are use as follows: the left knob allows navigation on the device's menu, while the right one allows to scroll the document moving from one row to the other or from one page to the following.the main body expands with a backlit keyboard that allows typing. Text is displayed on an e-ink screen located on the main body.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions: 330 x 165 x 40mm
Tags: flowo, typewriter, keyboard, e-ink display, recycled, eco-sustainable, e-paper
Production Technology: Recycled plastic injection molding for main body, e-ink display and other eco-plastic materials.
Design Challenge: The greatest difficulty was to give a new design to an object (the typewriter) by now consolidated over time but also no longer used. the main idea was to keep some parts of the flowo design that recalled the old typewriter but at the same time have a modern and functional design. the keyboard is very minimal, the display is curved to remember the old roller where the paper slides while the side knobs that were used to slide the paper are now used to navigate the menu and scroll the pages.
The materials used for the production of flowo are all eco-sustainable and the plastic used is recycled plastic to have a minimal environmental impact.
Research: the research that has been done for the Flowo design is essentially based on giving a modern and functional design to an object now in disuse like the old typewriter. the basis of the project was taken into account the simplicity of use like the old typewriter but at the same time using modern technology (e.g. paper was eliminated and an e-ink display and an internal memory were used to store documents ).
Inspiration: The idea at the foundation of Flowo (Flow Word) is to give new life to a tool such as the old typewriter that is no longer used nowadays. Thanks to computer, tablet smartphone we have never ending solutions to type and save our texts, notes or books. The issue when using these devices to type is that the quantity of information, inputs, notifications they can send affects the writer's ability to concentrate, even the more disciplined one's.Flowo is the concept of a modern typewriter intended for a sole purpose: type without distractions.
Project Duration: Location: Azzano Decimo (PN) - Italy
Procject duration: 1 month
Operation Flow: Works like an old typewriter. You type on the keyboard and the text is displayed in the curved e-ink display.
The left knob allows navigation on the device's menu (create new document, save document, open document ect.), while the right one allows to scroll the document moving from one row to the other or from one page to the following.
Team Members: Jody Del Bianco