Lucky Plate 幸運碟 by JiaYi Cai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 廚具設計 Competition Category.

銅廚具· 2020

Lucky Plate 幸運碟

by JiaYi Cai

Client: Macau University of Science and Technology

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 廚具 Category

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The Design

About Lucky Plate 幸運碟

呢套幸運碟係一套以四葉草形狀設計嘅陶瓷餐碟。四葉草嘅造型喺中國傳統文化入面代表住希望、施予、愛同幸福。每隻碟嘅邊緣都設有四個凹槽，其中兩個用嚟喺用餐期間擺放餐具，另外兩個就用嚟喺用餐完畢後放置餐具。呢種特別設計嘅邊緣仲可以防止上菜或者取走食物嗰陣醬汁滴漏。呢套餐碟喺景德鎮製造，採用高溫瓷燒製而成，無毒無害，仲可以放入微波爐使用。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Lucky Plate 幸運碟是 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Lucky Plate 幸運碟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。Lucky Plate 幸運碟出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: In Chinese tradition,The concept of the lucky plate derives from the figure of “four-leaf clover” which means hope, giving, love and happiness.
This is a set of exquisite four-leaf clover dinner plates, which are flexible and can be used in the modern food industry, to form a rich modeling. With this design, people no more need to worry about sauce dripping like traditional plates when we remove food from the plate.
Dimensions & Packaging: 24.0cm wide 24.0cm high temperature 3.0cm high temperature environmental protection porcelain, processing process is material selection, billet, molding, glazing, burning.
Tags: Ceramic tableware, product design, emotional design, function, aesthetics, White Cutlery
Production Technology: The production of this set of products was completed in Jingdezhen. Jingdezhen has a millennium of ceramic culture and history. The material is made of high temperature and environmental protection porcelain. It is safe, nontoxic, environmentally healthy and can be placed in microwave oven. It is made of high quality clay,repaired and bonded, the body of which is dry and glazed. Finally, the product is made by burning.It collects Jingdezhen ceramic culture and traditional Chinese aesthetics.
Design Challenge: During the process of firing, many problems such as deformation and cracking needed to be solved. Deformation and cracking affected the RQP in production which meant that it was very difficult to use white clay in the process of molding. Finally, the clay with higher hardness was selected as raw material to make this plate.
Research: The research involved a creation of functional Decorative Items that affective and playful environment with functionality, practicality and aesthetically as an approach.
This project is set to better inherit and promote traditional Chinese culture. kiln chambers, and glaze institutes are frequented.Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Rhino3D NURBS, etc.are used for preliminary design and modelling. And the structure is simple, the shape is reasonable, and it is suitable for daily life,which are flexible and can be used in the modern food industry, to form a rich modeling.
Inspiration: The lucky plate is a set of plates that endow clover the meaning of luck, auspice and love. This innovative plate designs with emotions and a good taste. When you are at table, a simple and solid plate with food on its middle makes a delicate combined pattern, a gradation from deep to shallow. The luck plate itself also symbolizes the "gentleness" and "vitality". Through the simple design, the lucky plate reveals and amplifies the social significance of grouped dining behind the food culture.
Project Duration: This project started in June, 2018 in Macao，and finished in September, 2018 in Jingdezhen, China. It has not been exhibited yet.
Operation Flow: This plate is designed to place cutlery in grooves after a meal.
We usually put our cutlery on plate and desk when we enjoy our meal, which makes our hands or other exposed parts become dirty. Etiquette is used to encourage good table manners. It has four grooves located on the edge of plate. Two can stop the cutlery during the meal, while the other two are used to place the cutlery, which means the meal is over. These two sets of grooves have different usage when we use cutlery, which plays a important role in dining etiquette.
Patents: 201930746998.3 JiaYi Cai 2019 Guangdong ShenZhen
Team Members: JiaYi Cai is the main designer.
JiaLiang Cai : Multidisciplinary Designer
ZhiPing Chen: Material Engineering Department at UBC
ShaoShi Yan is the instructor.
Image Credits: Image #1: CAI JIAYI, 2019
Image #2: CAI JIAYI, 2019
Image #3: CAI JIAYI, 2019
Image #4: CAI JIAYI, 2019
Image #5: CAI JIAYI, 2019