Happy Aquarius 鍛煉矽膠水瓶 by Chungsheng Chen and Enyang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award 金獎 in 運動用品設計 Competition Category.
金運動用品· 2017
Happy Aquarius 鍛煉矽膠水瓶
by Chungsheng Chen and Enyang Chen
Client: ACDC Creative
A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 運動用品 Category
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The Design
About Happy Aquarius 鍛煉矽膠水瓶
快樂水瓶座是適合所有年齡段的安全且抓地力好的水瓶。它具有平滑的微笑曲率形狀設計和醒目的雙面色外觀，呈現年輕，充滿活力和時尚感。由100％可回收食品級有機矽製成，可維持220度的溫度範圍。 C至-40度C，沒有增塑劑浸出並且不含BPA。柔軟的表面塗層可提供柔滑的感覺，手感和抓地力佳。彈性，彈性和中空結構的特點使瓶子既可以用作手抓握器，也可以輕量化啞鈴。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 金獎
Happy Aquarius 鍛煉矽膠水瓶是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計Happy Aquarius 鍛煉矽膠水瓶將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Happy Aquarius 鍛煉矽膠水瓶激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The smooth smiling curvature design and eye-catching appearance by combination of duo colors, showing a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. Made by 100 % recyclable food grade silicone material, sustaining high low temperature 220deg C ~ -40deg C, safe without any leaching of plasticizer and is BPA free. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel good hold and grip, its flexibility, elasticity and the center hollow structure feature enable the bottle to workout as hand gripper and light-weight dumbbell.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Size: L100 W80 H240 mm
Volume: 400ml
Material: FDA food grade silicone - Tags
- Silicone, Water, Bottle, Workout, Aquarius.
- Production Technology
- Material: Using Silicone as the main material for water bottle is the first of its kind.
Production Tech: Double Sided Color Formation method was menifested.
Surface Touching:Silky Soft Touch Coating, enhance the touch of the surface. - Design Challenge
- Double sided Color Formation for silicone material is always a challenge, and a curvature hollow structure in the middle of the bottle was even a much tougher challenge. In order to achieve the good hold and grip shape, eye-catching color planning, a special molding technique applied. This kept the team try and error for many times that finally comes up with the good solution.
- Research
- Type of Research: Silicone Material in Daily Use
Research Objectives: To achieve the very first water bottle to be made in silicone material with double sided color and hollow structure.
Methodology: Morphological Analysis, Image Scale.
Data Collections: Market Survey, Target User Analysis.
Research Tools: Solidworks, Sketch-Up, 3D Printing. - Inspiration
- When I noticed water bottle made by PC or plastic will leach out plasticizer & BPA, I try to design a bottle safe enough for my children. So I come up with this silicone water bottle with peanut shape which is good hold & grip.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2014 finished in 2015 in Tainan, and was exhibited in 2015 Creative Expo Taiwan as well as 2015 Taipei International Invention Show. Awarded by 2015 GoldenPin Design Award, Taiwan. Design Patent D167870.
- Operation Flow
- Is a safe and good hold water bottle for all ages. Soft touch coating on the surface, providing a silky feel. Besides its water bottle usage, it can be used as handgripper or dumbbell.
- Patents
- Design Patented. Patent No: D167870. Patent holder: Acdesign Associates International CO.,Ltd. 2015. TAIWAN.
- Team Members
- ChungSheng Chen
Tainan University of Technology, Product Design Dept
EnYang Chen
National Kaohsiung First University of Science & Technology
Innovation Design Engineering Dept
Acdesign Associates International Co.,Ltd
Jin Hui Co.,Ltd. - Image Credits
- ChungSheng Chen
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