Icy Galaxy 冰模 by Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad

Icy Galaxy 冰模 by Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 银奖 in 烘焙用具、餐具、饮具与炊具设计 Competition Category.

银厨具· 2020

Icy Galaxy 冰模

by Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad

Client: Creator studio

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 厨具 Category

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The Design

About Icy Galaxy 冰模

大自然一直是设计师灵感的最重要来源之一。通过观察银河系的空间和形象，设计师想到了这个想法。本设计中最重要的方面是创造独特的形式。市场上的许多设计都着重于制作最清晰的冰块，但在此演示设计中，设计师故意将注意力集中在水变成冰块时矿物制成的形式上，更明确的是设计师改变了自然缺陷变成美丽的效果。这种设计产生了螺旋球形形状。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Icy Galaxy 冰模是 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Icy Galaxy 冰模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。Icy Galaxy 冰模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

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

Unique Properties: The most important aspect in this design was to create a unique form. Many designs that are in the market focus on making the most clear ice but in this presented design, the designers intentionally focused on the forms which are made by the minerals while the water turns into ice, to be more clear the designers transformed a natural defect into a beautiful effect. The presented design is a mold that creates a spiral spherical form.
Tags: Ice, Icy galaxy, Ice mold, Ice maker, Silicon mold, Spiral spherical, Galaxy, Cocktail drink, Design, Bartender
Production Technology: The presented design is a mold which creates a spiral spherical shape, it could be used to make ice or chocolate bars, cakes, jelly, etc. The mold has two main parts, a silicon part which is the most important piece of this design. The silicone part is made from a food grade flexible silicon. The second part is a plastic frame to hold the silicon part vertically.
Design Challenge: The most challenging aspect was to design a mold that has the correct cutting point and design it in a way that could be used easily and get the expected form with no trouble. Also choosing the material was challenging, the designers had to do a vast research on different types of silicon and other materials that provides the expected results.
Research: The designers had to do a vast research on different types of silicon and other materials that operate the same and also consider the exact amount of flexibility which was needed. If the exact amount of flexibility was not considered, it could cause a deformation in the final result. too much flexibility or too much hardness could lead the result into failure.
Inspiration: Nature has always been one of the most important sources of inspiration for designers. The idea came to designers' minds by looking into the space and the image of Milk Way Galaxy.Considering the fact that the minerals inside water causes irregular globes and streaks appearing inside the ice when water turns into ice and the similarity that it has with the image of galaxy, it stroke into designers' minds to use all this to create an ice that could represent a galaxy. Imagine having a drink with a piece of ice that reminds you of a galaxy. A galaxy floating in your glass!
Project Duration: The project started and finished during the Summer of 2019.
Operation Flow: One of the important points while designing a product is to consider a way that it could perform better comparing to other designs. The presented design has several advantages in comparison to other designs. Because of its special form it takes less time to make ice, also it is important to mention that the spiral shape that provides a larger contact surface with the drink makes it able to cool the drink much faster. Not to mention that with this design, the designers minimized the amount of water used to make the same size ice balls.
Team Members: Ladan Zadfar
Mohammad Farshad
Image Credits: Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad