ArtVinegar 酿醋套装 by Fang-Ping Hsu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 可持续产品、项目与绿色设计 Competition Category.

铁可持续产品· 2021

ArtVinegar 酿醋套装

by Fang-Ping Hsu

Client: ArtVinegar

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 可持续产品 Category

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The Design

About ArtVinegar 酿醋套装

ArtVinegar是一款可在家中将"不完美"水果制成果醋的DIY套装。套装包含一只玻璃瓶、多种可选的醋风味配料以及一本印刷手册。消费者可在超市、生鲜市场或小型农贸市场挑选卖相欠佳或熟过头的水果。瓶身采用回收棕色玻璃经起泡工艺制成,气泡纹理呼应了醋在发酵过程中产生的气泡。空瓶可返回销售网点进行回收再利用。该设计减少了食物浪费,推动了可持续生活方式。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

ArtVinegar 酿醋套装是 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ArtVinegar 酿醋套装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。ArtVinegar 酿醋套装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: ArtVinegar is a DIY kit with a glass bottle for making imperfect fruits into healthy vinegar. Consumers can choose unappealing or perishing fruits at the supermarket produce section, produce markets or small farmers markets and the vinegar flavor they like. A manual is included. The glass bottle can be brought to the sales outlets for recycling. Food waste is minimized, and sustainability is promoted.
Dimensions & Packaging: ArtVinegar inherits the artisanship of vinegar officials in ancient times, offering fun experiences of pure brewing, soaking, tossing, and bubbling fermentation of fruit vinegar. One layer of sweet fruit and one layer of crushed sugar result in the change of flavor attributed to the fluctuation of temperature and the passage of time. ArtVinegar creates the fun of vinegar making.
240*180*100(mm)
Tags: cyclic design , green design , fruit vinegar , ugly fruit , healthy , food
Production Technology: The glass bottle of the ArtVinegar is made of commonly recycled brown glass by the bubbling process, and the Square sheng conveys the reminiscence of traditional vinegar making. The bubble pattern on the bottle echoes the bubbles of vinegar fermentation.
ArtVinegar uses "imperfections and gaps" as its imagery and brings sustainability to the vinegar-making experience by focusing on glass reproduction and the circular economy of food.
Design Challenge: How to communicate with manufacturers to sample products, explain how the cultural meaning and styling meaning of people, as well as good relations with customers, in order to have long-term cooperation opportunities.
Research: Problem.01 Every year, one-third of the world's food (about 1.3 billion tons) is wasted, resulting in an economic loss of US$727.3 billion, and 25% of the waste comes from fruits and vegetables.
Problem.02 Nearly 1 / 4 of the glass bottles will be eliminated after Glass industry are made.The glass will have some manual traces or small bubbles, high-temperature processing environment to produce "no manual traces without any small bubbles" probability is almost zero, but basically does not affect the aesthetics, not to affect the internal quality and use.
Inspiration: Since leftover fruits taste the same as appealing good fruits, it is ideal to use leftover fruits to make vinegar. Even ugly fruits have the potential to transform into healthy vinegar. This product advocates reducing food waste, creating additional food value, and boosting economic output.
Project Duration: In August 2020 began to think, in September there are preliminary design prototypes, 10 market research, in December with glass manufacturers, is expected to be in Taiwan in March 2021.
Operation Flow: Step.1Enter the store
Step.2Buy a combination bag of vinegar
Step.3Go home and make fruit vinegar
Step.4Recycle the bottle
ArtVinegar is a DIY kit with a glass bottle for making imperfect fruits into healthy vinegar. Consumers can choose unappealing or perishing fruits at the supermarket produce section, produce markets or small farmers markets and the vinegar flavor they like. A manual is included. The glass bottle can be brought to the sales outlets for recycling. Food waste is minimized, and sustainability is promoted.
Team Members: Designer: Fang-Ping Hsu
Designer: Chien-Chen Lai
Prof.: Kai-Chu Li
Spring Pool Glass Industrial Co., Ltd.
Image Credits: All images are self-created.