Platinum Kitchenware · 2025
Yin Mo Star Kui 4 Pieces Knife Set
by Beijing Wang Mazi Technology Co., Ltd
- Platinum A' Design Award 2025 in Kitchenware
- CLIENT: Beijing Wang Mazi Technology Co., LTD
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,481,876
- Verification code 97F87AB600 · Verify this award
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About Yin Mo Star Kui 4 Pieces Knife Set
Yin Mo Star Kui is a four piece Chinese knife set designed for home kitchens. Each blade is made of composite steel with a multilayer structure. A high carbon steel core keeps the edge sharp, while a low carbon steel surface layer resists corrosion. Hot forging at 1040 degrees Celsius and cold forging at minus 196 degrees Celsius improve strength and toughness. The forged surface is slightly rough, which reduces contact with sticky food. The handle has a concave grip area and balanced weight for comfort during long use. The black and silver finish carries a classic Taotie pattern.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Yin Mo Star Kui 4 Pieces Knife Set is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Yin Mo Star Kui 4 Pieces Knife Set exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Yin Mo Star Kui 4 Pieces Knife Set is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- This Chinese knife set, designed based on diverse needs of Chinese kitchens, aims to offer users an efficient, comfortable experience. It ingeniously integrates unique appearance design, exquisite craftsmanship, and premium materials, striking a perfect balance between aesthetic pleasure and practicality.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 150*360*114mm
- Tags
- Chinese knife set, forged texture, forged texture, efficient cutting, composite steel, hot and cold forging processes
- Production Technology
- The knife set employs 1040 degrees Celsius hot and minus 196 degrees Celsius cold forging processes to ensure lastingly superior performance. The hot forging process improves the overall strength and toughness by optimizing the shape and eliminating imperfections. The cold one enhances the crystal structure to increase resistance to deformation. Compared to conventional knives, the product, benefiting from its special forging processes, achieves better durability and prolonged service life.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was striking a balance between hardness and toughness of the knives to enhance durability and practicality. To address that, the blade is crafted from composite steel and utilizes a multilayer structure. The core layer of high carbon steel ensures lasting sharpness, suitable for precise cutting and prolonged use. The anti corrosion surface layer of low carbon steel is uneasy to rust even under damp conditions, reducing the risk of breakage and edge rolling.
- Research
- Traditional Chinese knives often focus excessively on practicality while neglecting aesthetic pleasure and user experience. This product, however, demonstrates a profound understanding of traditional Chinese culture and a deep insight into modern lifestyles, and especially takes into account the needs of Chinese kitchens. It aims to bring users visual enjoyment and foster their cultural identity through unique appearance design while ensuring an efficient, effortless experience.
- Inspiration
- The product prioritizes both of aesthetic pleasure and practicality. Its refined forged texture significantly enhances visual layering while giving a strong 3D visual effect and a sense of dynamism. Meanwhile, the color scheme of black and silver, combined with the classic Taotie pattern as an embellishment, greatly improves visual appeal by marrying antiquity with modernity.
- Project Duration
- This product was developed in Beijing in February, 2024, and will be launched in China in April, 2025.
- Operation Flow
- The ergonomic handle adopts a reasonably concave structure at the grip area and a streamlines shape, as well as scientifically distributed weight, to offer a comfortable grip and relieve hand fatigue during prolonged use.
A slightly rough surface resulted from forging processes effectively reduces the contact area between the food and the blade, making the knives especially suitable for handling sticky food. This improves cutting efficiency, contributing to smoother and more efficient operations.