Glacier 洗菜機 by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 廚具設計 Competition Category.
銅廚具· 2021
Glacier 洗菜機
Client: China Innovation Academy of Intelligent Equipment ( Ningbo ) Co., Ltd
A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 廚具 Category
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The Design
About Glacier 洗菜機
Glacier係一部專為家居廚房設計嘅洗菜機。佢利用氫氧水離子產生器,有效去除農藥殘留、重金屬、化肥同細菌。機身以ABS同PC材質注塑成型,大面積透明設計令整部機器呈現出層次分明嘅視覺效果。抽象多邊形外觀同闊身指示燈設計,令人聯想到大自然嘅冰川,寓意純淨與穩定。機身正面設有大型操作面板,分別設有肉類、水果同蔬菜嘅按鍵,只需將食材放入機內,輕輕一按即可啟動清洗程序。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅獎
Glacier 洗菜機是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Glacier 洗菜機將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Glacier 洗菜機出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Glacier is a kitchen food cleaner that effectively removes pesticide residuals, heavy metal, fertilizer and bacteria. The design purpose of Glacier is to express extraordinary cleanliness and high quality life attitude. The machine utilizes abstract polygons and large scale instruction lights to build a picture of natural glacier that embodies purity and steadiness. Usage of large area of transparent PC material brings rich layering and overall attractiveness to the machine body.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Black or white body. Dimension: 305mm x 410mm x 285mm
- Tags
- food, cleaner, washer, iceberg, glacier
- Production Technology
- Glacier applies ABS and PC injection modeling. It contains hydroxyl water ion generator that degrade harmful substances in food.
- Design Challenge
- Glacier needs to utilize minimalist shapes to convey a neat metaphor that represent its core function of cleaning, and thus exhibit an attitude for high quality life.
- Research
- The technology of degrading harmful substance on food has not been widely known or accepted by major population. Instead of educating potential users with academic terms and specification, Glacier relies more upon dedicated overall design to boost its first image and captivation.
- Inspiration
- From our observation, target users who care about food cleanliness are also prone to life quality pursuance. Thus we build the machine's main body with abstract iceberg polygons to metaphorize the cold, clean and clear glacier that represent extreme purity. Together with the rich layer design, We enable Glacier to touch user's subconsciousness for stainlessness and to visually facilitate user's imagination for quality life.
- Project Duration
- The project started in August 2020 in Beijing and finished in December 2020 in Shenzhen, China
- Operation Flow
- A large control panel is installed on front side of Glacier with bottoms indicating "meat", "fruits", "vegetables" and etc. User need only put food into the machine and touch the botton, then operate easily with instructions.
- Team Members
- Creative Director: Xu Chen
Art Director: TianShu Liu
Consultant: Rong Zhang
Technical Head: ShuLong Li
Design Technology: Qian Hao
Designer: FangBo Wu
Designer: BeiBei Liu
Engineer: MingJie Zhang
Project Manager: Yan Liu
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