Wonderful Travel 儿童生日蜡烛 by Yong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 婴儿、儿童产品设计 Competition Category.

铜婴儿产品· 2020

Wonderful Travel 儿童生日蜡烛

by Yong Zhang

Client: Liaoning Shihua University

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 婴儿产品 Category

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The Design

About Wonderful Travel 儿童生日蜡烛

《奇妙旅行》是一套以太空旅行为主题的儿童生日蜡烛。整套包含六个角色,每个角色都有各自的名字、身份与表情,其中有宇航员、发明家和队长等。套装还配有生日帽等相配的小配件。这些蜡烛可以像玩具一样用手自由摆放组合。每个角色形象均经过三维建模与3D打印,再翻制成硅胶模具,注入液态蜡后置于冷水中冷却成型。成品蜡烛由蜂蜡与大豆蜡混合制成。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Wonderful Travel 儿童生日蜡烛是 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Wonderful Travel 儿童生日蜡烛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。Wonderful Travel 儿童生日蜡烛出色地满足需求，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: Children's growth is accompanied by animation stories and picture books. Lovely, brave and villain characters are the images in children's games. Space exploration, ice and snow, Jurassic dinosaurs and marine science popularization have become familiar and favorite themes for children. "Space travel" is the theme of this set of candle design, which combines the theme and birthday atmosphere from the image role, story content and environmental color.
Dimensions & Packaging: Two kinds of packing：1.60mm*60mm*90mm；2.160*40*150.
Single candle size:55mm*55mm*85mm
Tags: Birthday candle, Children's birthday,Space travel
Production Technology: According to the design theme and story, design the characters, print the characters in 3D, make the grinding tools with silica gel, and finally pour in liquid wax, cool with cold water and demould. In the experiment, 58 types of paraffin were used, and the mixed proportion of beeswax and soybean wax was used in the finished product.
Design Challenge: Consumer psychology determines sales volume. Children's liking is not the only standard. Their mothers are the main purchasing groups. Their purchasing psychology is worth studying.
Research: Nowadays, children's birthday has become the most important festival for families. Cakes and candles are necessary for birthday ceremonies. The market demand and usage of children's candles is huge, the style of market sales is single, the demand can't be met, so it has a good market development prospect. Candle production technology and process are relatively mature, with low investment cost and high profit.
Inspiration: Wax material is a local characteristic industry, selling raw materials for a long time. The local government has been looking for opportunities for wax products to create new products for the public through industrial design services. Electric light has replaced the function of candle lighting. At present, candles are used in ritual activities. Children's birthdays must be celebrated every year, the market demand is huge, and cultural product design is accepted by people.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2019 at in fushun, liaoning province, China, and finished in July 2019 at in fushun, liaoning province China.
Operation Flow: Children decorate with hands, just like toys. Overall design of the suit, including birthday hat and other accessories. There are six roles in space travel: larey: astronaut, showing off, big eyes; Rilla: inventor, making his own spaceship; khaki: astronaut, carefree, like running; Smith: leader, experienced, beer belly; Maigey: astronaut, simple mind, surprised expression; Star: astronaut, big belly, tooth decay, fantasy.
Team Members: Menghua Wang
Zeyu Xu
Xinlu Wang
Yunhao Wang
Yu Jiang
Jianzhong Zhu
Xinyu Zhang
Rongren Li
Yining Chen
Hongjie Yu
Jing Li
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Menghua Wang, Variations, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Yunhao Wang, Variations, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Rongren Li, Variations, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Yu Jiang, Variations, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Yu Jiang, Variations, 2019.