Eli 功能性手冲咖啡机 by Chenchen Fan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家用电器设计 Competition Category.

铜家用电器· 2021

Eli 功能性手冲咖啡机

by Chenchen Fan

Client: Chenchen Fan

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家用电器 Category

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The Design

About Eli 功能性手冲咖啡机

Eli 是一款可变形、紧凑的自动手冲式咖啡机，专为那些需要完美口味的咖啡以满足日常咖啡瘾的人们而设计。由于光滑稳定的转轴结构，咖啡制作过程可以简单地分为三个阶段：材料准备、冲泡设置和咖啡冲泡。新的形式和结构允许用户快速携带咖啡机并将其放置在桌子上。 Eli 采用传统咖啡机的极简主义方法，专注于美观、可用性和增强整体咖啡冲泡体验。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Eli 功能性手冲咖啡机是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Eli 功能性手冲咖啡机将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Eli 功能性手冲咖啡机出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Eli is a transformable, compact, and automatic pour-over coffee maker design for those who need perfect taste coffee to meet their daily addiction wherever. It is a portable, organized, and private coffee-making kit that users can conveniently enjoy the coffee-making process from coffee grinding to brewing finish. A minimalist approach to the conventional coffee maker, Eli focuses on aesthetics, usability, and enhancing the overall coffee brewing experience.
Because of the smooth and stable rotating axis structure, the coffee-making process can be simply divided into three phases: Material preparation, Brewing setup, and Coffee brewing. The new form and structure allow users to carry and set the coffee maker on the table quickly. Eli combines the classic pour-over coffee brewing techniques with the latest technology. Thanks to the automatic rotating water nozzle. The coffee ground can be evenly coated with water and allowing the coffee ground to bloom perfectly. Enjoying perfect taste coffee anywhere, anytime.
Dimensions & Packaging: Coffee maker in case 170mm by 70mm by 90mm
Coffee maker setup 170mm by 70mm by 170mm
Tags: Coffee maker, Pour-over, Portability, Automatic, Organized, Usability, Compact
Production Technology: For production, the overall body would use recyclable plastic for injection molding. Boiling water with the electromagnetic heating pad and Blooming the coffee ground with the stainless steel rotating water nozzle.
The material include: Recyclable plastic, semi-transparent plastic, rubber,
stainless steel.
Design Challenge: Designing a portable pour-over coffee maker that allows users to enjoy the coffee-making process and perfect taste coffee anytime, anywhere.
Research: 1.So many different tools and utensils need to be organized and used in the traditional pour-over coffee-making process. These tools and utensils are not intuitive and instructive enough for beginners to make pour-over coffee. The storage of the tools and utensils is lacked organization and makes space crowded.
2.Most of the existing pour-over coffee makers are not convenient to carry and set on the table. It has lousy usability for people who live or work in a limited space and want to make a cup of perfect coffee by themselves.
3. For non-professionals, it is hard to make a perfect pour-over coffee by themselves. Because they have to learn and master many brewing techniques, such as evenly coats the coffee ground with water and allowing the coffee ground to bloom perfectly.
Based on the pain points, I thought of a new approach that focuses not only on the brewing experience but also on usability.
Inspiration: I'm a classic coffee drinker. I'm always thinking about how I can make a perfect taste of coffee for myself. Through the research, I found it has to be the pour-over coffee. But most of the pour-over coffee makers in the market are only focus on functionality rather than usability. It is hard for beginners to make a perfect pour-over coffee because they have to learn and master many pour-over coffee brewing techniques. So I thought if I can find a new approach for the pour-over coffee maker
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 in Pasadena and finished in June 2019 Pasadena
Operation Flow: The coffee-making process is divided into material preparation, the Brewing setup, and coffee brewing. In the first phase, users need to boiling the water and grinding coffee beans. Once the material is ready, users can do brewing setup, sliding and lifting the structure, and then rotating to lock the base. The final step is Coffee brewing.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Chenchen Fan, 2019
Image Credits: Optional Image #4:The COPYRIGHT of background images are belong to the Adobe Image Stock