Float 飲杯 by Fang Shih and Tian-Yu Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 廚具設計 Competition Category.

鐵廚具· 2020

Float 飲杯

by Fang Shih and Tian-Yu Wu

Client: Float

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 廚具 Category

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The Design

About Float 飲杯

Float係一款可重複使用嘅杯,設計嚟畀人唔使用飲管都飲得到珍珠奶茶。杯入面有個內杯,將珍珠托喺茶嘅上面,咁樣當個杯揚起嚟飲嘅時候,珍珠同茶就可以一齊入到口。茶會俾上面嘅冰凍住先至飲落去,咁樣就可以避免用飲管飲嘅杯到最後幾啖會變暖嘅情況。Float係用塑膠注塑同矽膠注塑製成,尺寸為106 x 106 x 236毫米。呢個設計嘅目標係減少使用即棄杯同飲管。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Float 飲杯是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Float 飲杯將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Float 飲杯因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: FLOAT is a reusable cup that doesn’t need a straw but still can drink bubble tea. The inner cup put the bubbles above the drink, so the tea and bubbles would arrive at our mouth together while we raise our head to drink. Also, in this way, the tea will be cooled by ice before drinking, which solves the problem that the straw cups always let people drink the bottom part of the drink which isn’t cooled by ice piece above the drink.
Dimensions & Packaging: 106mm x 106mm x 236mm
Tags: reusable, cup, bubble tea, sustainable design
Production Technology: plastic injection molding, silicone injection molding
Design Challenge: The most difficult part in the process is the adjustments of using fluency. Based on our core concept ”the motivation of continuous using comes from a good user experience", we improved and adjusted hundreds of times in details such as the caliber of the rim and the slope of the inner cup, in order to make user has the best drinking experience.
Research: “Bubble tea” is an unique street drink culture that is risen in Taiwan since the 1980s. According to media statistics, more than 1.5 billion cups of bubble tea drinks are sold every year in Taiwan, which means there are more than 1.5 billion disposable containers are used every year as well.
Although there are many reusable cups being launched every year in Taiwan, we found that people tend to lower the time of using after buying them. So we did survey, interviews and use mind-mapping to find the reason: the reusable straws are not only difficult to clean, but also not easy to carry around.
That’s why we came up with Float to be the solution to these problems.
Inspiration: Bubble tea is an unique street drink culture in Taiwan; however, a handful freshness each day brings a billion of disposable plastic cups and plastic straw waste every year. We want to create a experience that is better than the disposable straw cup, and let people be more willing to use reusable cup to purchase bubble tea. reduce the numbers of disposable plastic cups and straws.
Project Duration: Started from Nov. 2018 to Dec. 2019
Operation Flow: FLOAT is a reusable cup that doesn’t need a straw but still can drink bubble tea. The inner cup put the bubbles above the drink, so the tea and bubbles would arrive at our mouth together while we raise our head to drink. Since people make a billion of disposable plastic cups and plastic straw waste while drinking bubble tea, we want to create a experience that is better than the disposable straw cup, and let people be more willing to use reusable cup to purchase bubble tea, and reduce the numbers of disposable plastic cups and straws.
Patents: Patented.
Patent No. M584644
Patent Holder. Wu, Tianyu ; SHIH FANG
Year. 2019
Team Members: Fang Shih
Tian-yu Wu
Image Credits: All Images: Photographer Oni Lai